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Academic Libraries in For-Profit Schools of Higher Education
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Davis, Jinnie Y.; Adams, Mignon; Hardesty, Larry – College & Research Libraries, 2011
For-profit schools constitute the fastest-growing sector of higher education institutions in the United States. Yet accompanying the phenomenal growth of these proprietary colleges and universities has been considerable controversy over the role that the profit motive should play in higher education. The literature of higher education contains…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Educational History