The recent trend of privatization is radically changing US higher education system. Adoption of corporate practices present a structural change in the system, affecting the goals and priorities of universities. Privatization is the system's way of overcoming challenges. This paper aims to implement the theory of evolution to introduction of privatization to the higher education system. It argues that privatization was introduced to overcome challenges with regards to decreasing public funding and growing demand. In that sense, privatization represents the change higher education went through as part of its evolutionary process. Privatization, however, was overdone to the point that it took over the whole system, thereby losing its evolutionary character and becoming an invader. Adverse effects include tuition hikes, loss of autonomy by the academe, and lower quality education compared to traditional institutions.
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