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Earnings from learning : the rise of for-profit universities /

Earnings from learning : the rise of for-profit universities / edited by David W. Breneman, Brian Pusser, and Sarah E. Turner. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2006. - xv, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - SUNY series, frontiers in education . - SUNY series, frontiers in education. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The contemporary provision of for-profit higher education : mapping the competitive market / David W. Breneman, Brian Pusser, and Sarah E. Turner -- Higher education, markets, and the preservation of the public good / Brian Pusser -- For-profit colleges in the context of the market for higher education / Sarah E. Turner -- The university of Phoenix : icon of for-profit higher education / David W. Breneman -- Profit centers in service to the academic core / Dudley J. Doane and Brian Pusser -- The market for higher education at a distance : traditional institutions and the costs of instructional technology / Saul Fisher -- Capital romance : why wall street fell in love with higher education / Andreas Ortmann -- A crowded lobby : nonprofit and for-profit universities and the emerging politics of higher education / Brian Pusser and David A. Wolcott.

0791468399 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780791468395 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0791468402 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780791468401 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2005026765


For-profit universities and colleges--United States.
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.

LB2328.52.U6 / E37 2006

338.4/3378

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