Earnings from Learning: The Rise of For-profit Universities (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791468402 ISBN 13: 9780791468401

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2006

Synopsis

Documents the rise of for-profit education as a dynamic and powerful force in higher education.

Earnings from Learning examines the historical and contemporary factors that have fueled the rise of postsecondary for-profit, degree-granting institutions as a dynamic and powerful force in education. The contributors focus on such institutions as the University of Phoenix, DeVry, and Strayer to present theoretically grounded and data-driven research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. They document unprecedented shifts in the postsecondary political economy and landscape and evaluate the implications for nonprofit institutions, including understanding the public and private benefits of higher education, postsecondary access and success, institutional resource allocation, competition, governance, and technology.

About this title

About the Author

Brian Pusser is Associate Professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791468402
• ISBN 13: 9780791468401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Breneman David W.