For-profit higher education: Godzilla or chicken little?(Cover Story)

From: Change | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Winston, Gordon C. | Copyright information

The adaptation of free enterprise principles to higher education has given for-profit schools an advantage over their non-profit counterparts in terms of image and funding. Non-profit private schools bear the brunt of competition as they have minimal student subsidies and funding resources.

The issue is for-profit higher education. Not the Morn and Pop trade schools that have been around for a long time - beauty and secretarial schools and certification for truck drivers and diese...

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