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The Corporation of Learning: Nonprofit Higher Education Takes Lessons from Business

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David Kirp (University of California, Berkeley)
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This essay examines the ways in which nonprofit universities increasingly emulate businesses, focusing on two of the most direct forms of emulation: the creation of internal university markets at the University of Southern California through adoption of variants of resource center management (RCM) and the privatization of public higher education at the University of Virginia.

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Paper provided by Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley in its series University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education with number 1014.

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Date of creation: 05 Oct 2003
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Keywords: Higher Education; Economics; Finance; Business; Resource Center Management; Privatization; University of Virginia; University of Southern California;

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