Download e-book for kindle: Diploma Mills by A. J. Angulo

The most vital shift in better schooling over the last twenty years has been the emergence of for-profit schools and universities. those on-line and storefront associations entice scholars with provides of speedy levels and "guaranteed" activity placement, yet what they convey is frequently anything particularly various. during this provocative heritage of for-profit larger schooling, historian and academic researcher A. J. Angulo tells the striking and infrequently sordid tale of those "diploma mills," which aim low-income and nontraditional scholars whereas scooping up a disproportionate volume of federal pupil aid.

Tapping right into a little-known background with significant implications, Angulo takes readers on a full of life trip that starts off with the apprenticeship method of colonial the US and ends with today’s politically savvy $35 billion multinational for-profit undefined. He strains the transformation of nineteenth-century examining and writing colleges into "commercial" and "business" faculties, explores the early 20th century’s circulate towards professionalization and progressivism, and explains why the GI invoice caused a surge of latest for-profit associations. He additionally exhibits how well-founded matters approximately profit-seeking in greater schooling have developed over the centuries and argues that monetary gaming and maneuvering via those associations threatens to destabilize the complete federal pupil relief program.

This is the 1st sweeping narrative historical past to provide an explanation for why for-profits have mattered to scholars, taxpayers, lawmakers, and the various others who've seen better schooling as a part of the yankee dream. Diploma Mills speaks to today’s issues by way of laying off mild on unmistakable conflicts of curiosity lengthy linked to this scandal-plagued category of schools and universities.