基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001.
Full Description
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.
Contents
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
