The Profits of Failure: For-Profit Colleges and the Closing of the Conservative Mind : Cypress House : 9780998785448 : 099878544X : 15 Mar 2021 : Most of us know little about for-profit colleges, in part because they're widely viewed as the ?second-class citizens? of higher education. Parents dream of sending their kids to an Ivy League school, a flagship research university, their alma mater, or a regional NCAA powerhouse, but not of sending them to a for-profit college. Nonetheless, good for-profit colleges train thousands to work as medical assistants, business administrators, RNs, cosmetologists?jobs that can change their lives. Bad for-profit colleges, however, leave many thousands of students jobless and in debt. The federal government heavily subsidizes for-profit colleges; regulation could determine the fate of billions of taxpayer dollars and is therefore of interest to all of us?we're helping fund those colleges, including the disreputable ones.The students who attend for-pro