Ivory towers in the marketplace.
The workings of the University of Phoenix and its strategy toward education are examined. The college, which is owned by the Apollo Group and accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, has roughly 90 campuses in 19 states. The university views students as customers shoppi...
| Publicado en: | Dissent (00123846) Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 70 - 74 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer2001
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