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ERIC Number: ED503632
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003-May
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
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The Corporation of Learning: Nonprofit Higher Education Takes Lessons from Business. Research & Occasional Paper Series. CSHE.5.03
Kirp, David L.
Center for Studies in Higher Education
This essay examines the ways in which nonprofit universities increasingly emulate businesses, focusing on two of the most direct forms of emulation: the creation of internal university markets at the University of Southern California through adoption of variants of resource center management (RCM) and the privatization of public higher education at the University of Virginia. (Contains 55 endnotes.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Public Education, Educational Trends, Business, Resource Centers, Administrative Principles, College Administration, Public Colleges, Corporations, College Environment, Organizational Culture, Educational Principles, Role of Education, College Role, Business Administration Education, Departments
Center for Studies in Higher Education. University of California, Berkeley, 771 Evans Hall #4650, Berkeley, CA 94720-4650. Tel: 510-642-5040; Fax: 510-643-6845; e-mail: cshe@berkeley.edu; Web site: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education
Identifiers: Virginia; California