Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream

by A.J. Angulo

Book Overview

A provocative history of for-profit colleges and universities.

Honorable Mention, PROSE Education Practice Award by the American Association of Publishers, FY17

The most significant shift in higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. These online and storefront institutions lure students with promises of fast degrees and "guaranteed" job placement, but what they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421420074
• ISBN13: 9781421420073
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher