EDUCATION FOR PROFIT.

[I]n recent years, the University of Phoenix has become the poster child for everything the mainstream academic establishment thinks is wrong about for-profit higher education.... But much of what academic traditionalists see as problems, Phoenix advertises proudly as solutions. The university aims to meet underserved demand for post-secondary education, tailor-made to fit the individual circumstances of harried adults.

Give the Reason article a read. It’s a bit lengthy, but generally fair. My only quibble is in the first page where the for-profit schools are equated to subprime mortgages in the housing market. Given elite schools track record at producing political “leadership” I would be strongly inclined toward the opposite judgement.

The University of Phoenix and it’s competitors do what the mainstream academic establishment (particularly the elites) are increasingly disinclined to do: prepare students for the marketplace – and political correctness is neither measurable in any meaningful sense or marketable.