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By David W. Breneman,Brian Pusser,Sarah E. Turner

Documents the increase of for-profit schooling as a dynamic and robust strength in better education.

Earnings from studying examines the historic and modern elements that experience fueled the increase of postsecondary for-profit, degree-granting associations as a dynamic and robust strength in schooling. The participants specialise in such associations because the collage of Phoenix, DeVry, and Strayer to provide theoretically grounded and data-driven learn from quite a few disciplinary views. They rfile extraordinary shifts within the postsecondary political economic climate and panorama and overview the consequences for nonprofit associations, together with knowing the private and non-private advantages of upper schooling, postsecondary entry and good fortune, institutional source allocation, pageant, governance, and technology.

At the collage of Virginia’s Curry university of schooling, David W. Breneman is collage Professor and Dean, Brian Pusser is affiliate Professor of schooling, and Sarah E. Turner is affiliate Professor of schooling and Economics. Breneman’s past books contain Liberal Arts schools: Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered? and Pusser is the writer of Burning Down the home: Politics, Governance, and Affirmative motion on the collage of California, additionally released through SUNY Press.

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