Corporate Colleges

While corporate institutions of higher pedagogy accept non had a high profile over the years, they accept caught the attending of a few scholars.  For those who are interested, Gordon Thompson's article, "Unfulfilled Prophecy: The Evolution of Corporate Colleges," from The Journal of Higher Education [Vol. 71, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2000), pp. 322-341] available through JSTOR provides a adept introduction.  Thompson begins past times reviewing dissimilar definitions of corporate colleges, including option ways they tin last categorized.

Brief sketches of 3 institutions that accept unopen are included inward Thompson's article [the highlighted text below links to corresponding pages on Wikipedia]:

• Northrop University, began equally a sectionalization of Northrop Corporation inward 1942 as well as became independent inward 1957, ultimately closing inward 1993.
• Wang Institute of Graduate Studies started past times Wang Laboratories inward 1979 as well as after unopen inward 1987.
• Watterson College, created equally the College of Computer Sciences, after becoming MetriData Institute, purchased past times Jostens inward 1983 as well as ultimately unopen inward 1993.