For-Profit Universities The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher
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, researches, and for-pr
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Edited by Tressie McMillan Cottom and William A. Darity, Jr.
For-Profit Universities
Tressie McMillan Cottom • William A. Darity, Jr. Editors
For-Profit Universities The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education
Editors Tressie McMillan Cottom Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Sociology Richmond, Virginia, USA
William A. Darity, Jr. Duke University Durham, North Carolina, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-47186-0 ISBN 978-3-319-47187-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47187-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016962319 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © RTimages / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
The papers in this volume were made possible with a Conference Grant from the American Educational Research Association in 2012.
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Introduction 1 Tressie McMillan Cottom What Is the Difference? Public Funding of For-Profit, Not-For-Profit, and Public Institutions 9 Bonnie K. Fox Garrity For-Profit Higher Education in the UK: The Politics of Market Creation 27 Jonathan White For Profit U Through the Eyes of IPEDS: Warts and All 53 Victor M.H. Borden Social Capital Development and For-Profit Post-secondary Education: A Planned Study 73 Thomas A. Mays Stratification and the Public Good: The Changing Ideology of Higher Education 99 Gaye Tuchman
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Who Attends For-Profit Institutions?: The Enrollment Landscape 119 Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Steve Stokes, and William A. Darity, Jr. Enrollment and Degree Completion at For-Profit Colleges versus Traditional Institutions 159 D. Diego Torres, Ja
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