For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education

by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Book Overview

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researchers, and for-profit sector leaders discuss how and to what ends for-profit colleges are a functional social good. The chapters include discussions of inequality, stratification, and legitimacy, differing greatly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319471864
• ISBN13: 9783319471860
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"