Community College and The For-Profit Sector

Have community colleges been oblivious to the impact and threat presented by the presence of the for-profit sector of higher education, despite their continued success, popularity and profit making abilities? Lee and Merisotis (1990) and Armstrong (2001) asserted that proprietary schools have been overlooked by traditional education researchers. While Kinser (2006) claims literature on postsecondary student affairs has ignored the student services aspects of the for-profit sector. Simply stated there is not much still known about this segment of postsecondary education in America.