Higher Education and Silicon Valley by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CASE EXAMPLE 5.A

CHALLENGES FACING FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES

Internal Practices

As argued by Tierney and Hentschke (2007: 1), for-profit universities “represent a new, fundamentally distinct type of postsecondary institution.” They point to a number of factors that distinguish them from traditional colleges and universities. The first is a minimalist, highly vocational curriculum, conceived and developed not by faculty members but by administrators in the institutions’ corporate headquarters (Tierney and Hentschke 2007: 94–96). This approach allows for quick adaptation, but it also creates narrow credentials that have questionable long-term value in a rapidly evolving labor market like Silicon Valley’s. The second attribute is the nature of for-profit institutions’ faculties, which are largely adjunct and exclusively teaching-focused. Additionally, faculty members have limited autonomy; course loads, curricula, and assessments are tightly controlled by the institution (Tierney and Hentschke 2007: 100–106).

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