A. J. Angulo has produced our first history of the industry, which has a more complex and varied past than any of us imagined. No matter what you think about for-profit colleges and universities, you'll surely profit by reading this pathbreaking book. -- Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University, author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools In this timely and engaging book, A. J. Angulo provides a devastating critique of for-profit colleges and universities, the fastest growing sector of American higher education. He shows that the pursuit of a high return on capital spurs these institutions to invest in marketing more than learning and to target students with the highest educational need and the lowest financial resources. -- David F. Labaree, Stanford University, author of How to Succeed in School without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education Diploma Mills brings the complex story of for-profit colleges directly into the mainstream of the history of American higher education where it belongs. -- John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky, author of A History of American Higher Education For-profits have been embraced by those that should question them, and Angulo urges us to think about issues of class and race and how for-profits capitalize and manipulate these forces. This book is essential reading. -- Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania, author of Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund
Preface
1. Commerce
2. Competition
3. Control
4. Crisis
5. Capital
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
A. J. Angulo is a professor of education and faculty affiliate in the Department of History and Global Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of Empire and Education: A History of Greed and Goodwill from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror and the editor of Miseducation: A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad.
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