Higher Ed, inc. : the rise of the for-profit university

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Higher Ed, inc. : the rise of the for-profit university

Richard S. Ruch

Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Among higher education institutions in the United States, for-profit colleges and universities have steadily captured a larger share of the student market. A recent trend at for-profit institutions is the coupling of job training with accredited academic programmes that offer traditional baccalaureate, professional, and graduate degrees. Richard Ruch, with administrative experience in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors of higher education, takes readers inside these new for-profit institutions, describing who teaches there, who enrols and why, and how the for-profits are managed and by whom. He analyzes their different structures, services, and outlook on higher learning and training, and explains in detail how they make profits from tuition income. Ruch opens up the discussion about for-profit higher education from the perspective of a participant-observer. Focusing on five providers - the Apollo Group (the University of Phoenix); Argosy Education Group (the American Schools of Professional Psychology); DeVry, Inc. (DeVry Institutes of Technology); Education Management Corporation (the Art Institutes International); and Strayer Education (Strayer University) - he conveys what it feels like to be inside this new kind of American institution. He is also candid about the less attractive aspects of the for-profit colleges, including what those who enrol may give up. As Ruch makes clear, the major for-profit colleges and universities offer a different approach to higher education - one that may be increasingly influential in the future.

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Foreword, by George Keller Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Confessions of a For-Profit Dean Chapter 2. The Players Chapter 3. The History of For-Profit Education in the United States Chapter 4. The Financing of For-Profit Higher Education 5. The Academic Culture of For-Profit Universities Chapter 6. Lessons from the For-Profit SideNotes Index

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