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From [publisher's website][1]: More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 2017The New Press · 240 pages · 9781620970607
- Other · English · 2025New Press, The · 9781620974728
- Other · English · 2018New Press, The · 240 pages · 9781620974384
- Other · English · 2017New Press, The · 9781620971024
Higher EducationFor-profit universities and collegesUniversities and colleges, united statesEducation, higher, united statesEducation, economic aspectsEducation, moral and ethical aspectsEducational equalizationNew York Times reviewed
