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• Private schools
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• Private universities and colleges -- United States
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• Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Universities are Opening Up Access to Their Courses (text-only version; Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, c2011), by Taylor Walsh (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)

• For Profit Higher Education: The Failure to Safeguard the Federal Investment and Ensure Student Success (official commitee print, 4 volumes; 2012), by United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (PDF and text at senate.gov and fdlp.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Play Together, Dark Blue Twenty, by Chester Eagle (PDF with commentary at Trojan Press)

• A Handbook of the Best Private Schools of the United States and Canada: An Annual Publication (Boston: Porter E. Sargent, c1915), ed. by Porter Sargent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Handbook of Private Schools, ed. by Porter Sargent (partial serial archives)

• Correspondence Between the Right Rev'd the Lord Bishop of Huron, the Rev'd H.F. Darnell, Principal of the Hellmuth Ladies' College and Henry Going, L.R.C.S.I., President of the London Medical Society and Member of Huron College Council (1874), by Henry Going and Henry Faulkner Darnell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Eternal Boy: Being the Story of the Prodigious Hickey (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1909), by Owen Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Humming Bird (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1910), by Owen Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tennessee Shad: Chronicling the Rise and Fall of the Firm of Doc Macnooder and the Tennessee Shad (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1911), by Owen Johnson, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Disunited Kingdom: How the Government's Community Cohesion Agenda Undermines British Identity and Nationhood (c2009), by David Conway (PDF at Civitas)

• Faith in Education: The Role of the Churches in Education: A Reponse to the Dearing Report on Church Schools in the Third Millennium (c2001), by John Burn, John Marks, Peter Pilkington, and Penny Thompson (PDF at Civitas)
• The Way Ahead: Church of England Schools in the New Millennium (aka the Dearing Report; London: Church House Publishing, 2001) (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• The Uncertain Trumpet: A History of Church of England School Education to AD 2001 (c2001), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)

• St. Edward's College magazines (1855-2006) (partial serial archives)

• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (c1934), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Tom Brown's Schooldays (with illustrations from the 1911 Harper and Brothers edition), by Thomas Hughes, contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• State Regulation of Private Schools (2009), by United States Department of Education (PDF at ed.gov)
• State Regulation of Private Schools (2000), by United States Department of Education (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Ogontz School for Young Ladies (ca. 1914), by Ogontz School (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Handbook of Private Schools, ed. by Porter Sargent (partial serial archives)

• The Handbook of Private Schools, ed. by Porter Sargent (partial serial archives)

• A Handbook of American Private Schools: An Annual Publication (second edition; Boston: Porter E. Sargent, c1916), ed. by Porter Sargent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Handbook of American Private Schools: An Annual Survey (sixth edition; Boston: Porter E. Sargent, c1920), ed. by Porter Sargent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Handbook of the Best Private Schools of the United States and Canada: An Annual Publication (Boston: Porter E. Sargent, c1915), ed. by Porter Sargent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Private School Enrollment and Tuition Trends (Washington: Center for Education Statistics, ca. 1987), by Mary Frase Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Romanism: A Menace to the Nation (A New and Original Work); Together With My Former Book "The Parochial School, a Curse to the Church, a Menace to the Nation" (fiftieth thousand; Aurora, MO: Menace Pub. Co., c1912), by Jeremiah J. Crowley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Counter Mandement to That of the R.C. Bishops; With Reasons Why Separate Schools Should be Abolished Throughout the Dominion (Listowel: J. A. Hacking, ca. 1896), by E. Stephens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Schools Called Public Schools of Manitoba are in Reality Protestant Schools (1893), by Alexandre A. Taché
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• David Blaize (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1916), by E. F. Benson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1914), by Irving Crump, illust. by Leslie Crump
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant (New York: McBride, Nast and Co., 1914), by Irving Crump, illust. by Leslie Crump
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Rethinking the Future of the University (1998), ed. by David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Handbook of British, Continental and Canadian Universities, With Special Mention of the Courses Open to Women (New York: Macmillan, 1899), ed. by Isabel Maddison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Andrew C. Comrie (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation (London and New York: Routledge, c2023), ed. by Melina Duarte, Katrin Losleben, and Kjersti Fjørtoft
  • Epub and PDF with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Castells in Africa: University and Development (Cape Town: African Minds, 2017), ed. by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, and François Van Schalkwyk, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF at Project MUSE)

• Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), by Jan Surman (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• The Western University on Trial (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy (c2012), ed. by Raphael Foshay (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• A General Idea of the College of Mirania, With a Sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the Several Classes; and Some Account of its Rise, Establishment and Buildings (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753), by William Smith
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images here at Penn

• A Blow at the Root: or, An Attempt to Prove, that No Time Ever Was, or Very Probably Ever Will Be, So Proper and Convenient as the Present, for Introducing a Further Reformation into our National Church, Universities, and Schools (London: Printed for A. Tozer, 1749), by Aaron Tozer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier, and Geoffrey Rockwell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Faculty as Global Learners: Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Joan Gillespie, Lisa Jasinski, and Dana Lynn Gross (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)

• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Willard Range (PDF at Georgia)

• Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Sidonie Smith (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Study of the Graduate Schools of America (Oxford, OH: Miami University, ca. 1925), by Raymond M. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enactments in Parliament, Specially Concerning the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Colleges and Halls Therein and the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster (4 volumes, 1912), by Great Britain Parliament, ed. by Lionel Lancelot Shadwell
  • Volume I (37 Edward III - 13 Anne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1 George I - 11 George IV): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (11 George IV - 32 Victoria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (32 Victoria - 2 George V, with Appendices): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries (New York: Catholic Summer School Press, 1920), by James J. Walsh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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