Fardad Fateri


Fardad Fateri has been involved in post-secondary career education for decades including President/CEO of International Education Corporation, which includes UEI College, United Education Institute, Florida Career College, and US Colleges.
Fateri has been in the higher education field since 1988 as a professor, director, dean, college president, division president, system president and CEO. He has worked in non-profit, for-profit, privately funded, publicly funded and market funded higher education organizations.
Both International Education Corporation and another for-profit educational institution Fateri held a leadership role in, Corinthian Colleges, became embroiled in allegations of fraud and bilking federal student aid programs.

Early life and education

Born in Tehran, Iran to Mohamad Fateri and Farideh Fateri who were both from the City of Babol in the province of Mazandaran in Northern Iran. Fateri's father grew up in a very poor family and worked as a street vendor until he was a teenager. From there, he got into residential and commercial real estate, as well as, a cotton farmer and processor. Being in the cotton industry led him to export cotton to Germany. At the age of 12, Fateri's parents sent him to attend the well-known international boarding school Institut Le Rosey in La Rolle Switzerland. Fateri has stated he was the poorest student attending Le Rosey.
After completing his studies at Le Rosey in La Rolle and Gstaad, Switzerland, Fardad came to the United States to attend University of California in Los Angeles. In the spring of 1985, Fardad graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social science. He then went to California State University, Fullerton where he earned his Master of Arts degree in social science in less than a year. After graduating with his master's, Fardad enrolled in Alliant International University’s doctoral program in San Diego, California. At AIU, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in leadership and human behavior with a specialization in industrial and organizational behavior with a dissertation, "Sex-role orientations and perceived leadership behavior of female and male middle managers in electronic firms".
Later, Fardad went on to complete his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University in management and leadership.

Career

Fateri was appointed to president of DeVry University in 2002. During his time as president, he continued publishing articles in educational journals including Journal of Ethnic Studies & Ethnic Bibliography, California Career Education Association Journal, and Fifth National Conference, Students in Transition.
Fateri served as a chief academic officer for Corinthian Colleges between mid-2004 to late 2007.
In January 2008, he left Corinthian Colleges.
Fateri started serving as the president, chief executive officer, and board director of International Education Corporation in early 2008. IEC is a private multi-site and multi-state postsecondary career education system offering short-term programs in high demand jobs.
In 2011, he joined Cogswell Polytechnical Colleges member of the Board of Trustees.
In 2012, Fateri published, “The Fall of American Education”.
In September 2018, Fardad Fateri published his book, “A Culture of Excellence: The Art, Discipline, and Practice of Breakthrough Leadership” published by Harvard Schuster.

Published work

The following are several essays, articles, and opinions that have been found in various outlets, all written by Fateri:
Essays
Books
Articles