[embed]https://youtu.be/_2Ka611WFQk[/embed] A few years back DEC was planning a 20 Year Celebration of Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program. That event was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic. On November 10, 2022, Tom Savini, DEC President Jeff Imbrescia, DEC Staff, guests, and friends would finally celebrate...
Douglas Business College was established in 1904 by Warren Douglas as a business and secretarial school. It later became Douglas School of Business Inc. and was incorporated on January 31, 1977. Current owner Jeffrey D. Imbrescia, has been CEO/President since 1989. Douglas School of...
As things open back up in this world, DEC is happy to once again be able to meet potential students and their families to help provide information and options as part of their school decision making process. Most industries were stalled as a result of the...
Thank you Mon Valley Independent for featuring DEC in their article for Post Secondary Schools Creating Safe Environments. We pride ourselves in creating and maintaining a safe environment for students and staff during the pandemic. ...
"I had to learn on the job," says Jeff Imbrescia, CEO and President of Douglas Education Center (DEC), talking about his beginnings as the owner what was then called Douglas School of Business. Mr. Imbrescia’s leadership has proven to be the foundation that Douglas Education...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guqg-4xLiGM&feature=youtu.be[/embed] When a mutual friend introduced Tom Savini and Douglas Education Center (DEC) President Jeffrey D. Imbrescia over twenty years ago who could have known what was in store? Surely not a program that would acquire local, national and international attention...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdy8DCQo3k&feature=youtu.be[/embed] Douglas Education Center is committed to providing safe and healthy facilities for our students, employees, and visitors to ensure the lowest likelihood of COVID-19 exposure while maintaining the highest level of educational capability. Upon entering a DEC facility everyone is required to wear a mask, have...
Today DEC staff is celebrating Mr. Imbrescia’s 31 years at the helm. His vision and persistence has transformed an old secretarial school into a premiere career school. We can all agree that without Jeff’s plan, the then “Douglas School of Business” would most certainly not...
Douglas Education Center students of both George A. Romero’s Filmmaking Program and Tom Savini’s Special Make-Up Effects Program are working together with industry pros on a new web series launched in October by horror media outfit Bloody Disgusting. The series is called Flicker and aims...
ACCSC (Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges) has recognized Douglas Education Center (DEC) as a School of Excellence. The ACCSC School of Excellence Award is intended to recognize ACCSC-accredited institutions that have demonstrated a commitment to the expectations and rigors of accreditation, as well...
