营利性大学：背景．现状．可能性

For—profit Universities：Background, Status Quo and Possibility

营利性大学的出现，不仅引发了对大学和社会两者间关系的重新思考，同时也提出了对”大学”的内涵进行重新理解的必要性。本文从这一研究视角出发，首先对”私立大学”的概念及其与国家之间的关系进行系统梳理，通过与私立大学的比较，分析营利性大学的本质特征与理论背景。同时，本文还通过对在日美两国出现的营利性大学之具体事例的分析，来探讨营利性利润创收的机制。最后，对当代营利性大学是否能发挥与传统高等教育机构不同的功能与作用，即针对营利性大学的未来发展可能性展开讨论。

The emergence of for—profit institutions of higher education raises fundamental questions not only on the relation between society and higher education but also on what constitutes “university”. This paper first reviews the concept of “private” institutions of higher education and its relation with the state. Then， the paper analyses what allow those institutions in the U.S. and Japan to actually generate profits. Through these examinations it is argued that the recent generations of “for—profit universities” provide significantly different services from the traditional ones.