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Profiting Higher Education: What Students, Alumni and Employers Think About For-Profit Colleges

Education

2.10.14

For-Profit Students’ Ambivalence (Inside Higher Ed, February 10, 2014)

Alumni of For-Profit Colleges Have Mixed Views of Their Experience (Chronicle of Higher Education, February 10, 2014)

Students unable to differentiate nonprofit, for-profit colleges, study suggests (The Daily Free Press, February 12, 2014)

Does it pay to attend a for-profit college? Vertical and horizontal stratification in higher education. (Social Science Research, 2015)

Exploring the For-Profit Experience (American Educational Research Journal, 2016)

Assessing a Moving Target: Research on For-Profit Higher Education in the United States (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Volume 34)

Benchmarking Higher Education System Performance (OECD, June 11, 2019)

Lower Ed, by Tressie McMillan Cottom (The New Press)

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin’s annual letter to high school principals, teachers and counselors

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research)

Controversies on Campus: Debating the Issues Confronting American Universities in the 21st Century (Praeger, January 2018)

Ethical Leadership in Higher Education: Responding to the Rise of For-Profit Education in the United States (Leadership Strategies for Promoting Social Responsibility in Higher Education, Volume 24)