Abstract
The recent growth of for-profit higher education has been marked by the rising importance of institutional ownership by publicly traded corporations. This paper looks at 13 publicly traded corporations that own degree-granting for-profit institutions of higher education in the United States, examining corporate growth strategies and their distinctiveness as Wall Street-owned institutions. The paper concludes that these institutions are different from their independently owned peers and that corporate growth strategies suggest the importance of foreign expansion.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 217-245 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Review of Higher Education |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 3 |
State | Published - Mar 1 2007 |
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Dimensions of corporate ownership in for-profit higher education. / Kinser, Kevin Paul.
In: Review of Higher Education, Vol. 30, No. 3, 01.03.2007, p. 217-245.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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