Another 500 alumni, majoring in biology and other allied health disciplines, have gone on to become doctors. Most of the expansion has taken place in the last two decades. More than 75 percent of Barry's 30,000 alumni have graduated since 1980. Barry also has taken measures to successfully reach traditional-age students. For this generation, raised on MTV and the Internet, loyalties often run thin.
Students can easily take courses day or night, and can earn degrees much more quickly.
Barry has greatly expanded distance learning instruction, and utilized its TV station, WXEL in Boynton Beach, to reach whole new markets, many times in the middle of the night. ACE branches its tentacles to a dozen locations outside Miami Shores, including some inside workplaces. Night-time and weekend classes mold to the schedules of working students. Thankfully, some things have not changed. In the coming year, Barry will be gathering information for its next Alumni Directory.