{"product_id":"diploma-mills-how-forprofit-colleges-stiffed-students-taxpayers-and-the-american-dream-9781421420073","title":"Diploma Mills: How For-Profit Colleges Stiffed Students  Taxpayers  and the American Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eA provocative history of for-profit colleges and universities. Honorable Mention  PROSE Education Practice Award by the American Association of Publishers  FY17 The most significant shift in higher education over the past two decades has been the emergence of for-profit colleges and universities. These online and storefront institutions lure students with promises of fast degrees and guaranteed job placement  but what they deliver is often something quite different. In this provocative history of for-profit higher education  historian and educational researcher A. J. Angulo tells the remarkable and often sordid story of these diploma mills  which target low-income and nontraditional students while scooping up a disproportionate amount of federal student aid. Tapping into a little-known history with big implications  Angulo takes readers on a lively journey that begins with the apprenticeship system of colonial America and ends with todays politically savvy $35 billion multinational for-profit industry. He traces the transformation of nineteenth-century reading and writing schools into commercial and business colleges  explores the early twentieth centurys move toward professionalization and progressivism  and explains why the GI Bill prompted a surge of new for-profit institutions. He also shows how well-founded concerns about profit-seeking in higher education have evolved over the centuries and argues that financial gaming and maneuvering by these institutions threatens to destabilize the entire federal student aid program. This is the first sweeping narrative history to explain why for-profits have mattered to students  taxpayers  lawmakers  and the many others who have viewed higher education as part of the American dream. Diploma Mills speaks to todays concerns by shedding light on unmistakable conflicts of interest long associated with this scandal-plagued class of colleges and universities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647042838581,"sku":"ByrdShop_1421420074","price":27.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781421420073.jpg?v=1781686700","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/diploma-mills-how-forprofit-colleges-stiffed-students-taxpayers-and-the-american-dream-9781421420073","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}