For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9783319836737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Tressie McMillan Cottom; Jr. William a. Darity

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Tressie McMillan Cottom

2. What is the Difference? Public Funding of For-Profit, Not-for-Profit, and Public Institutions; Bonnie K. Fox Garrity

3. For-Profit Higher Education in the United Kingdom: The Politics of Market Creation; Jonathan White

4. For-Profit Universities through the Eyes of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: Warts and All; Victor M.H. Borden

5. Social Capital and For-Profit Post-Secondary Institutions: A Planned Study; Thomas A. Mays

6. Stratification and the Public Good: The Changing Ideology of Higher Education; Gaye Tuchman

7. Who Attends For-Profit Institutions? The Enrollment Landscape; Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Steve Stokes, William Darity, Jr.

8. Enrollment and Degree Completion at For-Profit Colleges versus Traditional Institutions; David Diego Torres, Jane Rochmes, David J. Harding

O autorze

Tressie McMillan Cottom is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, USA. She is a former Fellow at the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis, USA, and at the Microsoft Social Media Collective.

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, USA

David Diego Torres, Rice University, USA

Gaye Tuchman, University of Connecticut, USA

Jonathan White, University and College Union, UK

Blurb

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-profit sector leaders discuss how and to what ends for-profit colleges are a functional social good. The chapters include discussions of inequality, stratification, and legitimacy, differing greatly from other work on for-profit colleges in three ways: First, this volume moves beyond rational choice explanations of for-profit expansion to include critical theoretical work. Second, it deals with the nuances of race, class, and gender in ways absent from other research. Finally, the book's interdisciplinary focus is uniquely equipped to deal with the complexity of high-cost, low-status, for-profit credentialism at a scale never before seen.