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Direct linkHeller, Donald E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
The growth over the last decade of the for-profit sector of higher education (also known as the proprietary sector) has been well documented. In 1999, for-profit colleges and universities enrolled approximately 629,000 students, or a little over 4 percent of the nation's 15.2 million students. By 2009, this sector had increased to 2.2 million…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Proprietary Schools, Federal Regulation, Employment
