Caracas, set on a verdant plateau twelve miles from the Caribbean coastline, was an enclave of American-style modernity, where slums coexisted with a growing sector of high-end retail and middle-class homes.
Creative writing courses are the most rapidly expanding sector of higher education.
"It shines a spotlight on a sector of higher education that by and large has been viewed as the lowest rung on the ladder," Dr. Fifield said.
"We are concerned that there is a growing unregulated sector of higher education that may be offering insufficient provision to students," the report states.
The DeVos approach is reversing nearly a decade of efforts to create a tough accountability system for the largely unregulated for-profit sector of higher education.
— took issue with the president's antiquated characterization of a sector of higher education that has expanded beyond laborers who are not cut out for academia.
An immediate benefit might be the staffing of the junior colleges, the most rapidly grow ing sector of higher education, with better teachers.
As in Australia, which followed a similar path, the notion of a separate but equal sector of higher education fooled nobody.
"Colleges Show Uneven Effort to Enroll Poor" (front page, May 31) doesn't mention a sector of higher education that has a proud story to tell about educational access.
Yet the distinction between profit-making companies and educational institutions is becoming increasingly moot; the fastest-growing sector of higher education is, in fact, the "corporate university," which typically provides training for middle and upper management.
If he worries about any sector of higher education, it's the vast middle — institutions that neither have the endowments of Harvard nor are on the brink of going out of business.
