CONFERENCE: Access, Competition and For-Profit Colleges.
I’m pleased to be organizing an AERA research conference, “Access, Competition, and For-Profit Colleges” in collaboration with Sandy Darity, The Research Network on Racial & Ethnic Inequality, and with generous support from the AERA Conference Grant initiative.
This interdisciplinary two-day conference will convene September 21-22, 2012 at Duke University. You can register and learn more here.
This conference dovetails with my research on legitimacy, race, gender, and outcomes of for-profit higher education so I’m very excited.
The conference objectives attend to three major goals: a survey of existing for-profit literature, an analysis of major gaps in existing literature with an attention to methodological concerns in the study of for-profits; and, an agenda for proposed research on for-profits.
Scheduled panels include:
Mapping the For-profit Research Landscape
For-Profit Higher Education and The Social Good
Race, Class, and Gender: Who are For-profit students?
The Problem of Data: How to Study For-profits
Public Finance, Competition, and For-profits: Do The Means Justify The Ends?
Online Pedagogy, Social Media, and Representation in For-Profits
I’m particularly excited about the Emerging Scholarship panel. It includes papers on:
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Emory University “Legitimacy and Mobility: When Becoming ‘Real College’ Is An Institutional Barrier”
Christine Tracy and Molly Kleinman, University of Michigan “The Acquisition of Non-profit Colleges and Universities by For-profit Corporations in the United States”
Thomas Mays, University of Dayton “Social Capital and For-profit Colleges”
Rohit Dutta Roy, Jadavpur University “Privatization of Education in India and the Conflicts with Equity Objective: Should Higher Education be Seen as a Business for ‘Profit-Making”
I could not be more pleased with the engagement of scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum: Sara Goldrick-Rab, Jorge Klor De Alva, Mark Schneider, MaryBeth Gasman, Laura Perna, Kevin Kinser, Letitia Oseguera, Gaye Tuchman to name a few. Goldie Blumenstyk and Victor Borden from the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Education, respectively, will also be in the house.
We’re aiming to do nothing short of move the conversation about for-profit education forward to produce rigorous interdisciplinary research, theoretically grounded and publicly engaged on a topic that too often dissolves into polemics.
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