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Tressie cottom lower ed6/19/2023 ![]() The following two chapters discuss the author’s personal experience working in for-profit environments contrasted with the experiences of interviewed students enrolled in for-profit style programs. She cites the shifting risk of corporate responsibility for training, retirement savings, and healthcare costs from companies to individuals (15). Using this as a framework she then highlights how ideological and economic changes allowed the emergence of national share-holder for-profit colleges. Doctor McMillan Cottom’s work grants a fuller context for understanding this phenomenon.Ĭottom begins with an account of enrolling a student at a technical college she worked for. Many ascribe the phenomena of for-profit, non-traditional colleges to the rise of neoliberalism, however, neoliberalism predates the explosion of these schools. ![]() ![]() In about two-hundred pages, Doctor Tressie McMillan Cottom examines not what for-profit colleges are but why they are – the policy, market, and social reasons for their existence. LOWER ED: THE TROUBLING RISE OF FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES IN THE NEW ECONOMY. ![]()
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