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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461539903321

Titolo

For-profit colleges and universities [[electronic resource] ] : their markets, regulation, performance, and place in higher education / / edited by Guilbert C. Hentschke, Vicente M. Lechuga, and William G. Tierney ; foreword by Marc Tucker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Va., : Stylus, 2010

ISBN

1-57922-527-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HentschkeGuilbert C

LechugaVicente M

TierneyWilliam G

Disciplina

378/.04

Soggetti

For-profit universities and colleges - United States

Education, Higher - Economic aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; 1. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; 2. EVOLVING MARKETS OF FOR-PROFIT HIGHER EDUCATION; 3. WHO ARE THEY? AND WHAT DO THEY DO?; 4. DIFFERENCES IN ACADEMIC WORK AT TRADITIONAL AND FOR-PROFIT POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS: Policy Implications for Academic Freedom; 5. MARKETS, REGULATION, AND PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION; 6. ACCREDITATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY: The Role of For-Profit Education and National Accrediting Agencies; 7. A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON FOR-PROFIT HIGHER EDUCATION; 8. THE PUBLIC GOOD IN A CHANGING ECONOMY; APPENDIX A

APPENDIX BAPPENDIX C; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of for-profit colleges and universities, reviewing their history, business strategies, and management practices; setting them in the context of marketplace conditions, the framework of public policy and government regulations; and viewing them in the light of the public good. Individual chapters



variously explore FPCU's governance, how they develop courses and programs, and the way they define faculty work; present findings from in-depth interviews with parttime and full-time faculty to understand how external forces and the imperative of pro

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Record Nr.

UNISA996395585803316

Autore

Monluc Blaise, seigneur de, <1500?-1577.>

Titolo

The commentaries of Messire Blaise de Montlur, mareschal of France [[electronic resource] ] : Wherein are described all the combats, rencounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, scalado's, the taking and surprizes of towns and fortresses; as also the defences of the assaulted and besieged: with several other signal and remarkable feats of war, wherein this great and renowned vvarriour was personally engag'd in the space of fifty or threescore years that he bore arms under several kings of France. : Together with diverse instructions, that such ought not to be ignorant of, as propose to themselves by the practice of arms to arrive at any eminent degree of honour, and prudently to carry on all the exploits of war / / by Charles Cotton, Esquire, lately deceased

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun, at the West-end of St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]

Descrizione fisica

[18], 404 [i.e. 400], [12] p., [1] leaf of plates : port

Altri autori (Persone)

CottonCharles <1630-1687.>

Soggetti

France History 16th century Early works to 1800

France History House of Valois, 1328-1589 Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedicatory poems by Cotton, Thomas Flatman, and R. Newcourt.

Blaisii Monluci Franciae mareschalli tumulus (French, Latin and Greek verse): [12] p. at end.

Initials.

Errata, prelim p. [17].

Advertisement prelim. p. [18].

Preliminary pages bound out of order.

Errors in paging.



Reproduction of original in: New York Public Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0103