Stephen Tave

Mr. Tave joined AHED in the Spring of 2008 with over 30 years of private post-secondary education experience. He spent eight years as President and Director for a company that owned and operated business and technical schools in and around New York City. Then he became Director at the Art Institute of New York City. During the more than five years he spent there he increased enrollment from 350 to more than 1100 students and revenues from $4 million to $16 million. He then became part-owner and Vice President of the Institute of Culinary Education and set-up the career school marketing, infrastructure and foundation for what has become a nationally recognized career training program with over 30,000 students annually in their career and avocational programs. He is currently a member of the Federal Legislative Committee and the Grassroots Committee for the Career College Association (CCA.) Mr. Tave is a graduate of Brooklyn College with a degree in psychology.