Kaplan University Grants Public Access to Global Leaders Series with Speaker Jack Stahl

Business Wire, July 18, 2007

Free Video Clips Available Online For the First Time

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- The Kaplan University/Newsweek MBA program has made segments of its Global Leaders Series available online for the first time, featuring Jack Stahl, who served as President of The Coca-Cola Company and CEO of Revlon before the age of 50. Stahl, who recently published Lessons in Leadership (Kaplan Publishing, 2008), shares his insights with online MBA students about successful leadership, creating extraordinary global organizations and leveraging brands effectively. Snippets of the interview are available at www.kaplannewsweek.com.

Other video segments in the series feature noteworthy Newsweek luminaries, Kaplan University faculty experts and global industry executives, who share their analysis of current events in the business world with students in the Kaplan University/Newsweek MBA program.

The hour-long videotaped interviews are woven into the online MBA courses. Other Global Leader lectures feature Steven Levy, Newsweek Technology Specialist, who discussed the cultural challenges facing Sony's first non-Japanese CEO, and Keith Naughton, Newsweek Midwest Bureau Chief, who provided analysis of the current state of the auto industry and insight about Ford's ongoing turnaround.

Kaplan University, a leading online institution of higher learning, and Newsweek, Inc., the award-winning news magazine, joined forces in 2006 to create the innovative Kaplan University/Newsweek MBA. The program combines Kaplan's rigorous MBA training with the journalistic resources of Newsweek magazine to provide students with an education that uses breaking business news to illuminate the issues and theories that are part of traditional M.B.A. course work. The program has an international focus and offers two degree specializations: international business and international health care management.

Kaplan University, based in Davenport, Iowa, is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). Kaplan University offers more than 75 academic programs and serves more than 26,000 online and on-ground students, with support centers in Fort Lauderdale, Chicago and Phoenix. To learn more, visit www.kaplanuniversitynews.com.

About Kaplan Higher Education and Kaplan, Inc.

Kaplan University is part of Kaplan, Inc.'s Higher Education unit, which includes 70 campus-based schools, as well as online programs through Kaplan University and Concord Law School. Through its schools, Kaplan Higher Education offers master, bachelor and associate degree programs as well as career-oriented certificates designed to provide students with the skills necessary to qualify them for entry-level employment in fields such as healthcare, business, information technology, technology, fashion and design. Kaplan is a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). For more information about Kaplan, please visit www.kaplan.com.