For-profit college vulnerability stems from elite higher ed’s exclusionary structure

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: McMillan Cottom’s Lower Ed argument parallels the ‘no-win choice’ framing the reader is building — individuals blamed for choices structurally forced on them.