Sepinwall, Amy J2023-05-222023-05-222014-01-012018-06-28Sepinwall, A.J. (2014). Education by Corporation: The Merits and Perils of For-Profit Higher Education for a Democratic Citizenry. In Urban, G. (Ed.), Corporations and Citizenship, 88-106. University of Pennsylvania Press.https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/38354For-profit colleges have elicited wildly divergent reactions, with critics vilifying them and their executives, and supporters seeing in the institutions a necessary and laudable complement to public and nonprofit institutions. As I propose in this chapter, the truth likely lies somewhere between these extremes.© 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112.Business Law, Public Responsibility, and EthicsEducation EconomicsHigher EducationHigher Education AdministrationLawNonprofit Administration and ManagementOrganizational Behavior and TheoryBook Chapter