We draw on population-level administrative data from the US Department of Education and
the Internal Revenue Service to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the …

This paper reports results from a resume‐based field experiment designed to examine
employer preferences for job applicants who attended for‐profit colleges. For‐profit colleges …

Advances in technology and the rapid expansion and affordability of the internet have
helped facilitate the use of online education, or e-learning. To accommodate increased …

There is a lack of research in the for-profit sector of higher education in the United States.
Likewise, there is a lack of research on the factors that affect the job satisfaction of adjunct …

We examine the effects of federal sanctions imposed on for-profit institutions in the 1990s.
Using county-level variation in the timing and magnitude of sanctions linked to student loan …

The for-profit college sector is arguably the most controversial and least understood sector of
higher education today. The past decade has ushered in a wealth of public concern and …

Online higher education has rapidly expanded in the United States and displays a great
opportunity for growth. Coupled with the growth of e-learning is the need for adjunct faculty …

While public value theory has emerged to offer important insights into the evaluation of
social enterprises, little is known about the origins of public value failure and even less …

For-profit providers have become an important fixture of US higher education markets.
Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt and are more likely …

Private for-profit colleges (FPCs) receive a disproportionate share of funding through federal
student aid programs. At its peak in 2010, the sector accounted for 23 percent ($33 billion) of …