Lessons from the Edge: For-Profit and Nontraditional Higher Education in America

by Gary A. Berg and Gary A. Berg

Book Overview

The importance of for-profit higher education becomes clear when one examines the state of higher education today. Traditional institutions are facing major pressures, including diminishing financial support, a call to serve adult learners, the need to balance applied and liberal arts curricula, and the need to maintain and evolve the institutional mission. Stakeholders are more numerous than ever before, and they are pulling institutions in different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275982580
• ISBN13: 9780275982584
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"