Taylor, B., Cantwell, B., & Slaughter, S. (2013). Quasi-Markets in U.S. higher education: The humanities and institutional revenues. Journal Of Higher Education, 84(5), 675-707.
“We conceptualize colleges and universities as embedded in quasi-markets, meaning competitive sites created by policy, that disfavor the humanities. We therefore posit that increased revenues from a quasi-market predict institutional de-emphasis of the humanities. Results indicate that private colleges and universities follow this pattern while public institutions do not” (p. 675).
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