Higher Ed, Inc.
Subtitle: The Rise of the For-Profit University
Contributors: George Keller (Foreword)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801866784
Subjects: Funding of education; Higher & further education; Higher; Finance; Education; Education / Teaching; Vocational education; USA; Proprietary schools; Education / Higher; General; For-profit universities and colleges; United States; Universities and colleges
First sentence: I must confess that until a few years ago I thought that all proprietary institutions were the scum of the academic earth.
Description: "In Higher Ed, Inc., Ruch opens up the discussion about for-profit higher education from the perspective of a participant-observer.

Focusing on five providers - the Apollo Group (the University of Phoenix); Argosy Education Group (the American Schools of Professional Psychology); DeVry, Inc. (DeVry Institutes of Technology); Education Management Corporation (the Art Institutes International); and Strayer Education (Strayer University) - he conveys for the first time what it feels like to be inside this new kind of American institution. He is also candid about the less attractive aspects of the for-profit colleges, including what those who enroll may give up.

As Ruch makes clear, the major for-profit colleges and universities offer a different approach to higher education - one that may be increasingly influential in the future."--BOOK JACKET.