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Lessons from the edge : for-profit and nontraditional higher education in America / Gary A. Berg.
Series: American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher educationPublication details: Westport, CT : Praeger, 2005.Description: xi, 214 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0275982580 :
- LC66 .B46 2005
Contents:
Introduction : building "educational hobo jungles"? -- Soft in the middle : current challenges in higher education -- The surprising story of for-profit and nontraditional higher education in America -- Missions : who are you? -- Junkyard dogs : the culture and rhetoric of for-profits -- Organizational structure : managers not administrators -- "Creative tension" : decision-making process at for-profit universities -- Faculties -- Challenges for the for-profits -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-209) and index.
Introduction : building "educational hobo jungles"? -- Soft in the middle : current challenges in higher education -- The surprising story of for-profit and nontraditional higher education in America -- Missions : who are you? -- Junkyard dogs : the culture and rhetoric of for-profits -- Organizational structure : managers not administrators -- "Creative tension" : decision-making process at for-profit universities -- Faculties -- Challenges for the for-profits -- Conclusion.
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