Title

For-profit colleges and universities : their markets, regulation, performance, and place in higher education / edited by Guilbert C. Hentschke, Vicente M. Lechuga, and William G. Tierney ; foreword by Marc Tucker.

Publication

Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hentschke, Guilbert C.
• Lechuga, Vicente M.
• Tierney, William G.

Description

ix, 209 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

For-profit colleges and universities in a knowledge economy / Guilbert C. Hentschke, Vicente M. Lechuga, and William G. Tierney -- Evolving markets of for-profit higher education / Guilbert C. Hentschke -- Who are they? and what do they do? / Vicente M. Lechuga -- Differences in academic work at traditional and for-profit postsecondary institutions: policy implications for academic freedom / William G. Tierney and Vicente M. Lechuga -- Markets, regulation, and performance in higher education / Mark L. Pelesh -- Accreditation and accountability: the role of for-profit education and national accrediting agencies / Elise Scanlon and Michale S. McComis -- A global perspective on for-profit higher education / Kevin Kinser -- The public good in a changing economy / William G. Tierney.

ISBN

• 9781579224240 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1579224245 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781579224257 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1579224253 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009032275

OCLC

432653920

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