![]() She brings her sociological insights to life with finely drawn portraits of participants like Mike, the Morehouse grad-turned-entrepreneur-and-MBA-seeker, and Clarice, the single mother struggling to get her beautician credentials and just trying to make it. ![]() In so doing, McMillan Cottom explains exactly why and how for-profit schools have come to occupy such a significant share of the higher education market. She does so with the rigor of a trained researcher and the sharp insights of an insider, leveraging her experience as a former for-profit admissions counselor.ĭrawing on a range of methods-including analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission filing data, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews- Lower Ed takes the reader from the initial question of what these institutions are, through the enrollment process at typical for-profits, and to an understanding of how the decision to enroll is indicative of larger systemic factors constraining and shaping people’s choices. ![]() McMillan Cottom goes beyond the question “What are for-profit colleges?” to delve into the why and how of for-profit colleges. Having garnered mainstream attention with an appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and scholarly attention with favorable reviews from noted academics like Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, Lower Ed sociologist and Virginia Commonwealth University professor Tressie McMillan Cottom has managed to do just that. ![]() It is rare when a scholarly book captures the attention of not just fellow academics but the popular imagination as well. ![]()
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