Alumni Profiles

Germán Ramirez, Ed.D.'05, Higher Education

In his dissertation, Who Teaches at Proprietary Colleges? Investigating the Background Characteristic and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Faculty in For-Profit Colleges in the U.S. (16KB pdf), Germán Ramirez compared the experiences of full-time faculty at for-profit colleges with faculty at public and private nonprofit universities. His work was supervised by Professors Richard Chait, committee chair, James Honan and John Willett. Germán is currently President of Laureate, Central America, responsible for leading Laureate International Universities growth plans in Central America. He is also the Vice President for Product and Network Development at Laureate and is responsible for building consistency across the network with respect to many of its program offerings. A former business school dean in Colombia, Germán earned his M.P.A. from the Spanish National Institute of Public Administration, J. D. from Los Andes University (Colombia) and B.B. A. from CESA (Colombia).