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The nineteen-fifties—a decade of civil rights litigation, Cold War intrigue, and red scare McCarthyism—was also a period racked with controversies over for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) in the United States. This paper explores the work of James Bartlett Edmonson and his circle of mid-twentieth-century FPCU critics. Edmonson, a School of Education dean at the University of Michigan during the nineteen-fifties, became one of the most prominent voices against what he described as “shysters” and “sheepskinners” in proprietary higher education. His work exposing FPCU fraud, corruption, and predatory schemes at the national level won him allies at the National Education Association and the Federal Trade Commission. It also created powerful enemies among independent college associations, home study groups, and religiously affiliated institutions. This paper contributes to the literature by engaging with an underdeveloped episode in higher education history and by locating this case study within the emerging field of ignorance studies. Sources for this study were drawn from the James B. Edmonson Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; Research Division Collection, National Education Association, Gelman Library, George Washington University; and published primary source documents in state and national periodicals. Resume Les annees 1950 – une decennie de litiges en matiere de droits civils, d’intrigue de la Guerre froide, et de « peur rouge » maccarthyste – ont aussi ete une periode marquee par les controverses sur les colleges et les universites a but lucratif (FPCU) aux Etats-Unis. Cet article explore le travail de James Bartlett Edmonson et son cercle de critiques des FPCU au milieu du 20 e  siecle. Doyen de l’Ecole d’education de l’Universite du Michigan dans les annees 1950, Edmonson est devenu l’une des voix les plus importantes contre ce qu’il qualifiait de « shysters » et de « sheepskinners » dans l’education superieure a but lucratif. Son travail revelant la fraude, la corruption et les procedes predateurs des FPCU au niveau federal lui a permis de trouver des allies au sein de la National Education Association et de la Federal Trade Commission . Il s’est egalement fait des ennemis puissants parmi les associations de colleges independants, les groupes d’education a domicile, et les etablissements d’affiliation religieuse. Cet article contribue a la litterature en abordant un episode meconnu de l’histoire de l’education superieure et en situant cette etude de cas dans le champ emergeant des etudes de l’ignorance. Les sources de cette etude sont tirees des James B. Edmonson Papers de la Bentley Historical Library a l’Universite du Michigan; de la Research Division Collection, National Education Association, de la Gelman Library a l’Universite George Washington; de meme que de sources primaires publiees dans des periodiques nationaux ou d’Etats federes.

James Bartlett Edmonson and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Crusade against For-Profit Colleges: An Episode of Ignorance-Making in the United States