For-Profit Colleges and Universities : Their Markets, Regulation, Performance, and Place in Higher Education.
Title:
For-Profit Colleges and Universities : Their Markets, Regulation, Performance, and Place in Higher Education.
Author:
Hentschke, Guilbert C.
ISBN:
9781579225278
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- FORWORD -- 1. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- 2. EVOLVING MARKETS OF FOR-PROFIT HIGHER EDUCATION -- 3. WHO ARE THEY? AND WHAT DO THEY DO? -- 4. DIFFERENCES IN ACADEMIC WORK AT TRADITIONAL AND FOR-PROFIT POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS -- 5. MARKETS, REGULATION, AND PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- 6. ACCREDITATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- 7. A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON FOR-PROFIT HIGHER EDUCATION -- 8. THE PUBLIC GOOD IN A CHANGING ECONOMY -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This book offers a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of for-profit colleges and universities, reviewing their history, business strategies, and management practices; setting them in the context of marketplace conditions, the framework of public policy and government regulations; and viewing them in the light of the public good. Individual chapters variously explore FPCU's governance, how they develop courses and programs, and the way they define faculty work; present findings from in-depth interviews with parttime and full-time faculty to understand how external forces and the imperative of profit generation affect faculty roles and responsibilities of faculty; analyze policy considerations that affect FPCUs, including federal regulation and oversight, accountability and assessment, and the legal and regulatory issues FPCUs face internationally; and finally address the notion of academic freedom and the distribution of public monies to FPCUs.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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