For-Profit Universities - The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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, researchers, 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Tressie McMillan Cottom • William A. Darity Jr
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-47186-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > Funding of education Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	3-319-47186-4
Barcode:	9783319471860

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