%0 Journal Article %1 levy_unanticipated_2006 %A Levy, Daniel C. %D 2006 %J Comparative Education Review %K Colleges, Colleges; Comparative Countries Countries, Economics, Economics; Education, Education; Educational Enterprise Foreign Free Government Higher Policy, Policy; Private Role, Role; Sector, Sector; System, System; Trends, Trends; %P 217--240 %T The unanticipated explosion: Private higher education's global surge %V 50 %X This article provides a broad and analytical overview of the private higher education explosion. It concentrates on a crucial yet generally ignored characteristic: the largely unanticipated emergence, not following a broad preconception or systemic design. The article's main conceptual thrust is to identify and provide analytical perspectives on emerging private higher education. Rather than assembling an ad hoc array of examples, it categorizes information by regions, types of higher education systems, whether there is a private tradition, and so forth. Thus, the overarching generalization about surprise emergence is understood in different ways, with different degrees of strength or exceptions, in divergent contexts. This article's evidence about private emergence markedly contradicts a state-controlled model and even goes beyond state supervision to more of a notion of pluralist initiative from below. The pluralist initiative encompasses a move from state to market dynamics, although even pluralist models combine state with market and social actors. Pluralism tends to involve a dispersion of action and power as well as diversity in forms. The article's inquiry and findings also thus relate to broad concerns in the study of policy beyond higher education (e.g., centralization versus decentralization and the mix of private and public activity). This analysis of private higher education emergence deals consecutively with three interrelated contrasts: (1) types of private higher education; (2) new and established private sectors; and (3) distinctive and nondistinctive roles, compared to public roles. (Contains 1 figure and 49 footnotes.)

@article{levy_unanticipated_2006, abstract = {This article provides a broad and analytical overview of the private higher education explosion. It concentrates on a crucial yet generally ignored characteristic: the largely unanticipated emergence, not following a broad preconception or systemic design. The article's main conceptual thrust is to identify and provide analytical perspectives on emerging private higher education. Rather than assembling an ad hoc array of examples, it categorizes information by regions, types of higher education systems, whether there is a private tradition, and so forth. Thus, the overarching generalization about surprise emergence is understood in different ways, with different degrees of strength or exceptions, in divergent contexts. This article's evidence about private emergence markedly contradicts a state-controlled model and even goes beyond state supervision to more of a notion of pluralist initiative from below. The pluralist initiative encompasses a move from state to market dynamics, although even pluralist models combine state with market and social actors. Pluralism tends to involve a dispersion of action and power as well as diversity in forms. The article's inquiry and findings also thus relate to broad concerns in the study of policy beyond higher education (e.g., centralization versus decentralization and the mix of private and public activity). This analysis of private higher education emergence deals consecutively with three interrelated contrasts: (1) types of private higher education; (2) new and established private sectors; and (3) distinctive and nondistinctive roles, compared to public roles. (Contains 1 figure and 49 footnotes.)}, added-at = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, author = {Levy, Daniel C.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a74af8da55c044857afdb0366911fb75/prophe}, interhash = {ba7c846406aeea6f8d9d918cc3a10764}, intrahash = {a74af8da55c044857afdb0366911fb75}, journal = {Comparative Education Review}, keywords = {Colleges, Colleges; Comparative Countries Countries, Economics, Economics; Education, Education; Educational Enterprise Foreign Free Government Higher Policy, Policy; Private Role, Role; Sector, Sector; System, System; Trends, Trends;}, note = 2, pages = {217--240}, shorttitle = {The unanticipated explosion: {Private} higher education's global surge}, timestamp = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, title = {The unanticipated explosion: {Private} higher education's global surge}, volume = 50, year = 2006 }