Proponents of more privatized higher education claim that it makes colleges and universities more responsive to the needs of students and employers alike, in addition to generating efficiencies that can enhance the institution's goals, whatever they may be. Putting considerable resources and managerial attention to marketing. Privatization may best be viewed as a direction along the continua of several related yet distinct dimensions, shown in Table 1, below. Mission is avowedly both pubic and private, but as defined by faculty. Mission is mainly to respond to student's private interests, mainly vocational.
Mission serves private interests of students, clients, and owners.
Public corporation or constitutional entity. Source of Revenue All taxpayer, or public, revenue. Mainly private, but public assistance to needy students. Control by Government High state control, as in agency or ministry. Subject to controls, but less than other state agencies.