Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed by Brown, Joshua Travis
Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed by Brown, Joshua Travis

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed

In Capitalizing on College Joshua Brown skillfully illustrates how tuition-driven colleges and universities have been forced to...
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Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed by Brown, Joshua Travis

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed

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Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed by Brown, Joshua Travis

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed

$72.89
Author: Joshua Travis Brown
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In Capitalizing on College Joshua Brown skillfully illustrates how tuition-driven colleges and universities have been forced to innovate and adopt market-driven financial strategies. These institutions have longstanding commitments to offering access and opportunity to marginalized students, but the promise of improved educational outcomes stemming from federal policy changes aimed at increasing market competition never materialized. Instead, as a result of demographic shifts and the privatization of higher education, competition for tuition dollars meant these colleges had to adopt new strategies to find more students in new, uncharted peripheral markets to offset losses stemming from their legitimizing residential campus experience.

Capitalizing on College reveals how three of the strategies these schools adopted--growing a traditional endowment, pioneering a periphery market, or even creating a network of multiple markets--were initially successful but ultimately fell short in raising enough revenue to support operating a residential campus. Only a fourth accelerated strategy of going to scale raised the necessary funds--but at the cost of undercutting their mission by leading them to view students as dollars.

Through a vivid and compelling narrative that weaves together candid interviews with over 150 university leaders, Capitalizing on College reveals the untold story of the missing middle--what market competition has wrought on higher education from the inside vantage point of the colleges themselves. It shows how the unanticipated consequences of federal policy changes have ultimately distorted the values of mission-driven schools. Capitalizing on College offers a timely and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the changes shaking higher education and what the future holds for colleges and universities in this new financial climate

Author: Joshua Travis Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 04/09/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780197780718

About the Author
Joshua Travis Brown is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership in Education at Johns Hopkins University and Fellow at the Center for Skills, Knowledge, and Organizational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford. His research is positioned at the intersection of public policy and organizational theory and examines how economic policies have incentivized colleges and universities with limited resources to pursue margins in new markets at the expense of their educational missions. His work has been featured and discussed in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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