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Within traditional higher ed, the story we usually tell about for-profits is based on deception. They conned their way into existence, we say. They exploited loopholes, rounded up students under bridges, and advertised like nobody had advertised before.
It’s not false, exactly, but it leaves a lot out. And it doesn’t paint a terribly respectful picture of the students who weighed their actual options and decided that for-profits made sense for them.
Put simply, for-profits rushed in to fill the void left by the publics. Decades of relative neglect of public higher education, combined with a certain (ahem) narcissism within the sector itself, left entire populations underserved.
Perhaps for impure reasons, for-profits figured out how to reach students nobody else bothered to reach.
They pioneered evening, weekend, and online delivery. They built schedules around student needs.
They focused on a few distinct majors that both students and employers could understand.
And for a while, in some sectors, some of them got decent results.
In the late 90’s, you could do a lot worse than graduating with a degree in CIS. For-profits filled a void. If you want to prevent the next catastrophe, tend to the void.

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