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8. Paying More tor Less: Lacking opportunity, the poor turn to for-profit colleges

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Cottom, Tressie McMillan

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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy (Nonfiction work) -- Cottom, Tressie McMillan -- Book reviews, Education, Social sciences
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy The New Press, 2017, $26.95; 240 pages. Higher education comes in many flavors--public colleges and universities, nonprofit private, [...]

Published
2018

10. Quote of note

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Cottom, Tressie McMillan

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Authors -- Quotations, Education, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
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'If I want to piss off the majority of higher education's customers, then defying the natural superiority of men by being a female authority figure, countering White oppression beliefs by [...]

Published
2014

12. the education assembly line.

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Neem, Johann N., Forster, Brenda, Slaughter, Sheila, Vedder, Richard, Cottom, Tressie Mcmillan, and Goldrick-Rab, Sara

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CORPORATIZATION, TRENDS, HIGHER education, REINSTATEMENT of employees
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The article focuses on the rise of corporatizing trends in higher education in the U.S. Topics include the reinstatement of Teresa Sullivan as president of the University of Virginia after she was forced out of office by the governing board led by Helen Dragas, the influence of corporatizing trends in higher education such as online education, and the views of experts including Johann N. Neem, Brenda Forster, and Sheila Slaughter.

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2012
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