Higher Ed, Inc.: The Rise of the For-Profit University (review)
Who needs for-profit corporations to run our colleges and universities? Aren’t most universities too corporate already?1 Instruction at a four-year proprietary for-profit junior college where I once worked was so impressive, I was attracted by the author’s paean to the teaching virtues of the corporate for-profits. Dean at nationally advertised De Vry Institutes of Technology, Ruch spent a couple of decades as English professor at various middle-tier non-profit institutions. I too have done stints at one for-profit private and three state universities. For-profits, he claims, constitute the only sector of American higher education that is growing.