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A selection of college housing and student affairs headlines from InsideHigherEd.com. Look for these on a weekly basis in the ACUHO-I news blog.
ECONOMIC REALITIES AND ADMISSIONS: Surveys by NACAC finds high schools reporting more students being influenced by cost, and colleges seeing signs of those choices:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/09/nacac
NOT-SO-SECRET AGENT MEN (AND WOMEN): When it comes to international students, the still-controversial practice of paying commissions to recruiters gains greater acceptance, and visibility:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/10/agents
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: Why do some public colleges always seem to fare better on state appropriations than others? Research helps, but so does a campus in a Democratic state, and in proximity to the statehouse:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/10/approps
THE BEST UNIVERSITY?: Peer evaluations filled out by Clemson’s top officials partially back contention that they didn’t conspire to game U.S. News rankings. But president ranked the university’s undergraduate program higher than Harvard and Berkeley:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/09/clemson
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