I commented recently on "A Tectonic Shift in Global Higher Education", by John Daniel, Asha Kanwar, and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, which describes the inroads that for-profit higher education is making around the world. I thought I should see what Daniel C. Levy and his excellent Program for Research on Private Higher Education might have to say on the matter, and discovered that he has a recent working paper entitled An Introductory Global Overview: The Private Fit to Salient Higher Education Tendencies. This paper concentrates on the non-profit side of private higher ed, but he notes “most of the findings we have identified as characteristics of private higher education are even more striking for the for-profit institutions.”. I also note that Levy has a number of databases looking at private higher education available on his website.
I will not try to describe all of his findings from this report, but rather suggest that you go to his paper. Instead, I will comment on a few of his findings that I found most interesting and provocative.
