Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis/St. Paul
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| Type | Private, For Profit |
|---|---|
| Active | 1999–2017 |
| Address | 1315 Mendota Heights Road , Mendota Heights , Minnesota , USA 44°51′59″N 93°9′36″W / 44.86639°N 93.16000°W |
| Website | http://www.chefs.edu/locations/minneapolis-st-paul |
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis/Saint Paul was founded in 1999. The college is owned by Career Education Corporation under a licensing agreement with Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. It closed in 2017 along with all other Le Cordon Bleu colleges in the United States in the wake of changing federal loan guidelines.[1][2]
History
[edit]Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts was founded by Brown College in 1999. The school began offering a Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Program that year, the first to be offered in North America. It started as a Certificate Program and began offering Associate in Applied Science degrees in 2002. An Associate in Applied Science in Patisserie & Baking was added the following year. These programs were strictly offered through Brown College until 2005.[citation needed]
In 2005, the Brown College degree programs were transformed into a new institution: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Minneapolis/St. Paul. The school was a branch campus of Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon.[3] In December 2015, students allegedly received an email declaring that the institution would stop enrolling students in the Spring 2016 semester, and that the school would close by September 2017.[4] According to a final update to the branch's website, "LCB stopped accepting applications from re-entering former students effective April 29, 2016."[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Crawford, Amy (17 May 2016). "What happened with Le Cordon Bleu, and what it says about culinary education in America". Boston Globe. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
- ^ Mehlhaf, Nina (2018-02-05). "Portland culinary students getting tuition money back after lawsuit". Retrieved 2022-06-20.
- ^ Culinary Arts Program, Cooking School, Culinary Classes, Minneapolis, Minnesota Archived 2008-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tribune, Liz Sawyer Star. "Minnesota culinary students faced with choices on news of Le Cordon Bleu closing". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
- ^ "Le Cordon Bleu | Culinary School | Minneapolis, St. Paul". chefs.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
External links
[edit]- Defunct private universities and colleges in Minnesota
- Cooking schools in the United States
- Educational institutions established in 1999
- Education in Dakota County, Minnesota
- 1999 establishments in Minnesota
- 2017 disestablishments in Minnesota
- Career Education Corporation
- Educational institutions disestablished in 2017
- Former for-profit universities and colleges in the United States