For-profit Adult Colleges And Universities In The United States

Since the 1990s,America's for-profit adult colleges and universities,a major development during this period,including "G-7" group,many education institutions of the booming rise,the success of these colleges and universities and the capital market docking,realize economies of scale,and showing a good development momentum.They broke the previous profit-making adult college difficult dilemma of development,make the space itself is established at the same time,and solved the contradiction between for-profit and nonprofit,high quality education service obtained the official and folk great affirmation.This paper is divided into four parts:Part one,this paper introduces the study of adult institutions of higher learning for profit purpose,significance,research ideas.And the related research generalizes the status of scholars both at home and abroad.The second part,the concept analysis of the definition and the rising background of such colleges.To the United States in the history of generalizes the different appellation of for-profit universities,to clarify the for-profit adult institutions of higher learning the concept of connotation and denotation,and carries on the classification,on this basis,this paper respectively from the new liberalism ideological trend,the mature capital market,the crisis of traditional colleges and universities from three aspects discusses the contemporary for-profit adult institutions of higher learning in the cause of the rise.The third part,the for-profit adult institutions of higher learning practice.Rise this part based on the analysis of the profit-making adult institutions of higher learning based on the social background,discusses from the aspects of policies and regulations on the federal,state macro-control role on for-profit adult institutions of higher learning,from the aspects of property right,governance structure,listed the running mechanism of the colleges and universities are discussed,from students,teachers and curriculum,quality monitoring,etc,to clarify the for-profit adult institutions of higher learning the inner workings of patterns,and finally,from the aspects of official and non-governmental organizations accreditation system elaborated the for-profit external quality guarantee mechanism of adult institutions.The fourth part,the for-profit adult institutions of higher learning enlightenment to our country.Combing the development of private colleges in China and the development present situation,contrasted the private colleges in China and the United States this kind of environment of colleges and universities,from the view of the development of our country "for-profit adult institutions of higher learning" soil is gradually mature,in the near future,such education mode is sure to rise in the country.On this basis,it is concluded that for-profit adult institutions of higher learning the successful experience of enlightenment to our country.