The Expansion of For-Profit Colleges for Immigrant and Minority Education: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of For-Profit Colleges in Metropolitan Washington, DC

For-profit colleges have greatly expanded their geographic scope in metropolitan Washington, DC during the 2000 decade. This study analyzes the relationship between the spatial distribution of for-profit colleges and metropolitan Washington demographics. The spatial distribution of these schools is analyzed within the context of the history of for-profit education, and the history of immigration and demographic change in Washington. The spatial patterns of for-profit colleges are compared with that of community colleges in the region. Results indicate that for-profit education institutions have more purposefully and more successfully located in areas high in Asian, Hispanic and foreign-born populations than community colleges during the 2000 decade. Generally speaking, community college locations are nearly twice as far from these populations. The consequences of increased enrollment among foreign-born and minority families into for-profit higher education is considered, with particular attention paid to the high cost and high student loan default rates among students attending these colleges.

Author

• Fisher, Camille Ann

Language

• en

Keyword

• Adult Education
• For-Profit Colleges
• Immigration
• Post-Fordism
• Washington
• Community Colleges
• DC

Date created

• 2012

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Geography

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Chacko, Elizabeth
• Price, Marie

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/2b88qc41t