![]() ![]() By 2010, that share had grown to a whopping 11.5 percent. In the fall of 2000, this sector enrolled 4.5 percent of all postsecondary students. ![]() In the last 15 years, the for-profits have ballooned. When we ask for justice and get ‘opportunity,’ it is Lower Ed.” Lower Ed is the story of those who walk through the doors of the for-profits in search of a better life. “When we ask for social insurance and get workforce training, it is Lower Ed. “When we offer more credentials in lieu of a stronger social contract, it is Lower Ed,” Cottom writes. But she reserves her greatest scorn for the labor-market conditions that have fueled them and for the absence of a government jobs policy. She writes with disdain about the for-profits: the institutions, the people who run them, the Wall Streeters who bankroll them. The phenomenal growth of one of these types-the for-profit private sector-is the focus of Tressie McMillan Cottom’s passionately written and disquieting book.Ĭottom comes to the subject with firsthand experience, having worked as a recruiter (enrollment officer) for two for-profit institutions, one specializing in cosmetology and the other in technology. All have become more popular as the monetary returns to college and university degrees and to certificates have increased. ![]() Higher education comes in many flavors-public colleges and universities, nonprofit private, and for-profit private. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy ![]()
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