Where the money comes from -- Market forces in higher education -- Why public universities cannot restrain costs -- The university prime directive -- The faculty are the university -- The cargo cult college -- The blessing and curse of shared governance -- What price shared governance? -- The...

This edited volume proposes that the phenomenon of private sector, financialized higher education expansion in the United States benefits from a range of theoretical and methodological treatments. Social scientists, policy analysts, researches, and for-profit sector leaders discuss how and to...