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Download full textRiley K. Acton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In the competitive U.S. higher education market, institutions differentiate themselves to attract both students and tuition dollars. One understudied example of this differentiation is the increasing trend of "colleges" becoming "universities" by changing their names. Leveraging variation in the timing of such conversions in an…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Higher Education, Commercialization, Colleges
