New Players, Different Game

William G. Tierney is University Professor, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis in the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. He is the editor of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance and Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm, both published by Johns Hopkins. Guilbert C. Hentschke is the Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Chair in Public School Administration at the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: For-Profit Postsecondary Education: Lumpers or Splitters?1. The Innovators: New Services, New Sector2. New Forces in an Old Industry3. Growth of the For-Profits4. Finance and Governance5. Faculty Roles6. Defining Success at the For-Profits: Students, Programs, and Employers7. Students and Other Priorities8. Clashes of Cultures, Sectors, and PurposesConclusion: Growth, Demand, and Purpose in Postsecondary EducationReferencesIndex

This book seeks to shed light on a rapidly changing industry. Future Survey 2008 A welcome addition to the often polemical writing about for-profits that has become particularly heated... New Players, Different Game should be added to the library of all interested in current trends in high education. Administrators and faculty members will especially benefit from the clear, balanced presentation of a wealth of information about for-profits. -- Gary A. Berg Journal of Higher Education 2009