Editors:
- Studies how students move through institutional sectors in higher education
- Compares the roles and social effects of for-profit and non-profit colleges and universities
- Systematically analyses the operation and impact of proprietary institutions of higher education
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Sociology, Richmond, USA
Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Duke University, Durham, USA
William A. Darity, Jr.
About the editors
William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr., is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, and Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, USA. He has served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding Director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke.
Contributors
Victor H.M. Borden, Indiana University, USA
Bonnie K. Fox Garrity, Accord Integrated Academic and Financial Integration, USA
David J. Harding, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Thomas A. Mays, Miami University, USA
Jane Rochmes, Stanford University, USA
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Bucknell University, USADavid Diego Torres, Rice University, USA
Gaye Tuchman, University of Connecticut, USA
Jonathan White, University and College Union, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: For-Profit Universities
Book Subtitle: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education
Editors: Tressie McMillan Cottom, William A. Darity, Jr.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47187-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47186-0Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83673-7Published: 21 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47187-7Published: 03 April 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Education Economics, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Industrial Organization