About this title: Among higher education institutions in the United States, for-profit colleges and universities have steadily captured a larger share of the student market. A recent trend at for-profit institutions is the coupling of job training with accredited academic programmes that offer traditional baccalaureate, professional and graduate degrees. Richard Ruch, with administrative experience in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors of higher education, takes readers inside these for-profit institutions, describing who teaches there, who enrols and why, and how the for-profits are managed and by ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801866784ISBN:0801866782
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Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 1st printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. VG+/VG+. Light shelf wear to boards and jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight. 182 pages including an index. read more
Edition: (first edition)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780801866784ISBN:0801866782
Description: 8vo in cloth with DJ. VG+/VG+. DJ has light edge and shelf wear. 182pp. ISBN 0801866782. Shelve with education. Spine is red with white text. Education. 9-85-670127. read more
Description: New. Among higher education institutions in the United States, for-profit colleges and universities have steadily captured a larger share of the student market. A recent trend at for-profit institutions is the coupling of job training with accredited acad... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801874475ISBN:0801874475
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Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780801866784ISBN:0801866782
Description: Very good. Very Good/Very Good reading copy cond., former library, immaculate text, sound binding. For profit colleges and universities are steadily capturing a larger share of the student market. Focuses on five providers. read more
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