For-profit post-secondary education and civic engagement

Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 337-359

  Persell, Caroline Hodges ^a   Wenglinsky, Harold ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; Community colleges; Education as a social institution; Education as an industry; For profit education; Proprietary schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043081992     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HIGH.0000016436.45792.00     Document Type: Article

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