For Profit and for Good : Walden University 1970 - 2020.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yob, Iris M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walden University (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2022.

Summary:

For Profit and For Good opens up for critical examination a sector of higher education that surprisingly is rarely scrutinized in depth: the corporate institutions that have made up the fastest growing sector of US higher education in this century. It explores in detail the development of one such institution, Walden University, from its emergence out of the social turmoil and progressive education movement of the 1960s, through the succeeding decades, characterized by changes on every front. It looks frankly at the impact of these forces on the university's original mission and describes the university's response to them. It investigates the idea of whether the resources and incentives of being for-profit have changed higher education in a way that benefits not only investors but also learners, their workplaces, and the larger community. Business models of management, technological developments, and changes in an ever-evolving society are issues every university faces and seeing how this institution grappled with them will be instructive. Fundamentally, this book addresses the essential ethical question of whether the for-profit sector in higher education adds value, and, if so, what that added value might be. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of the history of education, alternatives in higher education, the economics of education, education administration, reform and new developments in higher education, online learning, and policy studies in education. It is also relevant for policy makers and other managers in edubusiness.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Background

The Wider Context

Walden University Among Many

About This Study

About the Author

Some Conventions

Chapter 1 A New Kind of University

Several More Lives to Live

An Uncommon School

The Founding

Walden U

The Dream Becomes Real

For Profit from the Start

Chapter 2 Vision to Reality

The Initial Learning Model

Access to Higher Education

A New Learning Model for the New Degrees

Accreditation for Profit and for Good

Chapter 3 Consolidation

Changes at the Top

Walden After the Turners

Stresses and Strains

Assuming the Original Dream

Women at Walden

A Sense of Change to Come

Chapter 4 Corporatization

A Corporate Buyer is Found

Corporate Leadership

Making of the Educator

Making of the Businessperson

Making of the Social Change Activist

The Board is Onboard

Building out the Team

The Corporation Had a Heart

Chapter 5 Business Imperatives

Investors

Validation

Regulation

Fiscal Safeguards

Ethical Issues

Chapter 6 Interfacing

First Encounters

Tradition Encounters Change

Community Disruption

Chapter 7 Collaboration

Re-education Attempts

Practical Approaches to Collaboration

Collaborating for Accreditation

Collaborations for Recognition

Chapter 8 Common Ground

Laureate and the Mission of Social Change

The Business of Social Change

Walden and the Mission of Social Change

Academics and Social Change

Chapter 9 Challenges and Opportunities

Evolving Learning Models

Reaccreditation

Senate Review

Change in Ownership

Chapter 10 Reflections

For Profit

For Good

For Profit and for Good

Appendix A Owners and Presidents of Walden University 1970-2020

Appendix B Who's Who (and Where are They Now?).

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Yob, Iris M. For Profit and for Good

ISBN:

9781804410653

OCLC:

1344540046