The school was sold more than a year ago by Japan's Teikyo University to a group of Greenwich investors, shifting the university's nonprofit status to for-profit.
School officials have said the school's former mission of providing a global education will change “to provide rigorous professional education geared to the needs of traditional students and working adults.''
The idea for the change at the 115-year-old school came in part from an accreditation committee from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, which recommended the school narrow its academic focus, DeTemple said.
Such a move also was supported by the school's Board of Trustees.
Selim Noujaim, a member of the board's curriculum committee, said the restructuring will let Post focus on its strongest subject areas.
“We need to reduce our offerings because we know that we cannot be all things to all people,'' Noujaim said. “You have to evolve with the times.''
— Associated Press
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