[1] A few years later, the institution expanded with satellite campuses in Boston, Massachusetts, New York City and Montclair, New Jersey, and was renamed for its founder.
[citation needed] In 1911, Katharine Gibbs and her sister Mary Ryan opened their first secretarial school in Providence, Rhode Island.
[5] The Gibbs schools promoted a message of female empowerment, while focusing on the type of education that would be most valuable to women at the time.
[5] Gibbs distinguished her schools from her competitors, and she did so by offering courses in dressing appropriately, serving tea, and other social refinements.
After being sold, it specialized in education in industries such as graphical design, business administration, computer technology, criminal justice, and medical assistants.
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