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A. J. Angulo has produced our first history of the industry, which has a more complex and varied past than any of us imagined. No matter what you think about for-profit colleges and universities, you'll surely profit by reading this pathbreaking book. -- Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University, author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools In this timely and engaging book, A. J. Angulo provides a devastating critique of for-profit colleges and universities, the fastest growing sector of American higher education. He shows that the pursuit of a high return on capital spurs these institutions to invest in marketing more than learning and to target students with the highest educational need and the lowest financial resources. -- David F. Labaree, Stanford University, author of How to Succeed in School without Really Learning: The Credentials Race in American Education Diploma Mills brings the complex story of for-profit colleges directly into the mainstream of the history of American higher education where it belongs. -- John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky, author of A History of American Higher Education For-profits have been embraced by those that should question them, and Angulo urges us to think about issues of class and race and how for-profits capitalize and manipulate these forces. This book is essential reading. -- Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania, author of Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Commerce
2. Competition
3. Control
4. Crisis
5. Capital
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the Author

A. J. Angulo is a professor of education and faculty affiliate in the Department of History and Global Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of Empire and Education: A History of Greed and Goodwill from the War of 1898 to the War on Terror and the editor of Miseducation: A History of Ignorance-Making in America and Abroad.