Elite nonprofit colleges’ inflexibility functionally forces vulnerable students into for-profit schools.
Evidence
Choosing a for-profit institution has inherently greater risks than choosing a nonprofit. But it’s misguided to simply say that black Americans should make different choices. In her eloquent examination of for-profit schools, Lower Ed, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argues that nonprofit institutions, particularly selective ones, fetishize education without actually making space for people, like Chris, who require a more flexible or affordable system. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 290
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: For-profit college vulnerability stems from elite higher ed’s exclusionary structure — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 290; For-profit colleges exist parasitically on the prestige of elite institutions. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 291; For-profit colleges lack tax breaks and prey on black students — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 261 (+4 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: For-profit college vulnerability stems from elite higher ed’s exclusionary structure — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 290; For-profit colleges exist parasitically on the prestige of elite institutions. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 291; For-profit colleges lack tax breaks and prey on black students — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 261 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- For-profit college vulnerability stems from elite higher ed’s exclusionary structure
#corroborates(0.93) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 290 - For-profit colleges exist parasitically on the prestige of elite institutions.
#complicates(0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 291