For-profit education revealed from the inside

From Main Street to Wall Street: The Transformation of For-Profit Higher Education presents a detailed look at the quickly-increasing sector of for-profit education. Tracing the history of for-profit schools to its current state, this book reveals the ongoing transformation and diversity of quality, demographics, outlook, and more. Student outcomes, academic missions, shareholder motivations, accreditation, federal regulations, and other critical issues provide the context and perspective needed to formulate strategy going...

Dedicated to the hundreds of practitioners who work at international branch campuses (IBCs), this volume examines the unique challenges ICB professionals face in the leading edge of development in the global higher education sector and how they are unlike those confronted by their colleagues on the home campus.

The volume is designed to provide readers with an overview of the IBC phenomenon, as well as provide practical insights from those directly involved in the development of multinational colleges and universities. Editors Jason E. Lane and Kevin Kinser of the Institute for Global...