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Higher Ed, Inc: The Rise of the For-Profit University
Richard S. Ruch

Editor's Note: We are most fortunate to be able to present to USDLA Journal's readership the remarkable and insightful complete first chapter of Dr. Ruch's just published book, Higher Ed, Inc: The Rise of the For-Profit University (John's Hopkins Press). His position espoused here comes from decades of close observation of the mechanics, philosophies and struggles for solvency, successful and not so successful, within academia. Academia is faced with hard economic choices. These choices may not at all be the choices we thought we perceived as we gazed through the slits in our tower wall....
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