1st Edition

When For-Profit Meets Nonprofit Educating Through the Market

By Jared Bleak Copyright 2005
196 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This study addresses the increasing tumult over the commercialization of higher education - a battle over profit and principle, money and mission. While many issues in higher education encompass the mission and values of the university, the operation of for-profit subsidiaries by nonprofit universities provides the potential for an especially contentious clash. Some faculty have been especially... Read more
Introduction  1. Going to the Market  2. Creating the Subsidiaries: Unsolved Problems and Multiple Messages  3. Governance: Who's in Charge?  4. Personnel Connections: Culture Creation and Mediation in the Subsidiaries  5. Faculty and Curriculum: The Product and the Process  6. Integrated or Insulated: Cultural Fit in the Academy.  Appendix A: Research Design and Methodology.  Appendix B to J.

Biography

Jared Bleak is Executive Director at Duke Corporate Education.