Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ603606
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Diversification or Homogenization: How Markets and Governments Combine to Shape American Higher Education.
Fairweather, James S.
Higher Education Policy, v13 n1 p79-98 Mar 2000
Suggests that our combined public, private, corporate, and proprietary system of postsecondary education can be best understood as a complex interaction of various types of markets, governmental policies, disciplinary associations, and institutional actors. Proposes a model for explaining how these factors interact to form the "system" of American higher education. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Educational Policy, Government Role, Higher Education, Models, Private Sector, Public Sector, Systems Approach
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Theme issue: "Diversity, Differentiation and Markets."
