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U.S. colleges strive to make ties with campuses in Eastern Europe |< IPS) In rn cn! vvecks and months sc ores of campuses have mounti'il .1 vital rush to (•slahlish sonic sort ol link to Ira stern Bloc ( uuntries The programs range from si holarships set aside; tor l .1st ern European students to the more ambitious fa< ultv and stu dent exchanges To some campus off it 1.1 Is . the rush is nothing less than the kev to insuring pe.n e in hastern Europe "I'niversilies." said William Walliseh a vice president at Northern state I 'niversitv in South Dakota ".ire absolutely the kev to establishing stability in this situation more so than the government To others, worried about re stocking their enrollments as the number of Amerit an high si liool seniors dec lilies the rush to Eastern Europe is a ter rifu marketing tool "It's no set ret that i olleges and universities are in a com petitive market said Dave Brow n, dean of A meric an I in Vi a s it v s study abroad program The ones that i an oiler the spec ial programs, the unicpie programs will prosper, he said Priv ate colleges u hii h depend more heavilv on stu dent tuition, "had hettei lie do mg something to set them selv es apart hiuding students has alreadv bee nine more dilln nil About ti70 of the KUO i am puses surveyed hv the National Association of Dollegc \dmis sinus Counselors reported that thev still had openings for freshman as of tin- Max 1 dead I in** The reason administrators ngree. is that the number -of high school graduates has been falling sun e l'.tHH. and it is not expel led to rise again until 1 ‘Ml t At American, xvhit h on Max 1ft announced a new student and faculty ext hange program xx rib Muse ox\ State t Diversity, the lure of an I astern Bloc pro gram already seems to be work 1IIR I'.sper uillx among prosper tire At' students, the interest is extremely high " Brown said "It has already enhanced our re petal ion.' U allist h said \orthern State sealed a sr holar lx r'xr hange agreement with Warsaw Unixersitv "We'ie al ready receiving many more in qtriries about out (business! program ' I he agreement xxill also lead to expanded business opportu nities tor the community (In the most recent trip. W allist h said, txxo local businessmen xx ho went along for the ride made valuable eontar ts Schools. Wallisch said have .in .idded sense of 'legitimacy and sinreiitx that make it eas ier for people to do business That point xvas not lost on state offix ials in Mir higan A report prepart'd bv the Mir higan Development Authoi 11\ ret ommends among other tilings intendetl to increase the state s trade opportunities in the Soviet union. <m ext hange .it students from Ntii higan uni versifies anti .i Soviet research institute Sui fi motives him ever seem a little to men en.nv lot some observers anti edui ators “Certainly things like that demonstrate tliat c olleges are deeply involved 111 what's go mg on in the world, and that's attrai live." saiil John Ross, vine president ol College (’on unctions, a \ev\ *1 ork market ing firm Hut it would be wrong to say colleges are doing this foi marketing purposes In said We don't consider this to lie a rei ru it mg vehicle " said I lar old Best, executive assistant to President liarold llaak at Cal State I resno yy here officials signed an exchange agreement May 7 \yith hentn State t 'niver s11y in Minsk Indeed some edui atms in yoked in the rush think only about the advantages students will gain in their exchange pro grains In Anierii an l 'nivei site's agreement rvith Moscow State I niversity I.ay\ School, stu dents \y ill he in classes to gether ysitli Soviet students yyliiih is different Irotn most American programs in Russia so they I get a real Soviet expe rieiice." said l.ouise Shelly chairwoman of Ameriian s pis lice, layy and society depart menl and one of the program i oordmators National Odlege ({rads still make better money j('l’S) Collide graduates earn more during their life times than students who stop going to class after high si hool, and have much higher employment rates, the American ( ouni.il on Kducation i tainted in a batten of new studies re leased in mid-Julv Males with college degrees earned an average of $47.H i t a year in FIH7. compared to males with only high school di plornas. who earned an average of $24.4*14. saiil At I- researt:h i hief Klatlie I I kh.ivc as However. "disparities between the salaries ol women and men and minorities and whites with similar edm ational bac k grounds continue to exist." she added. Female college grads, for example, earned an average- ot $25,Mb while female high sc hool grads earned Slh.-ttil More graduating seniors going on to college (Cl’S) A record tit) percent of the seniors who gradual ed from high si hool in ltlHft enrolled in a college, up from 40 pen ent in 1*170. the I ’ S Department of Labor reported The* Bureau of Labor Statistics also found a greater per i outage of collegians are working while in sc hool. About 44 percent of the nation s college students now work part-time (luting the school year up !rom 4n pen ent in 1070 Iniversities refuse NFA grants (( PS) I.eaelers at the I ’niversity ol (ialifornia at Fos An geh's and (iettyshurg College in Pennsylvania separately re fused to accept National Fneiowment for the Arts grants that prohibited them from producing "obscene or meritless' art Peter Stitt editor of the ( h-ltvsburg Rev iew a < ampus lit clary magazine rejec ted a S i 4 >0 \l A grant June 21. saving the NLA's restrictions violate- Ins contributors' right tu tree expression .Similarly . 1'( 4 A (ihanc a-llor Charles f. Young on (line 22 rejc-c ted two NLA grants totaling $40,000 and promised not to take any of the $700,000 in NLA it had prey inusly applied to get Sjx I c risis deepens student loan default (CPS) Collapsed savings and loan institutions may be holding as mm h as $400 million in student loans and the government, wide h now operates the hanks, may not he doing a very good job of collecting them. Lawrem e O'Toole of the New Fnglanei Kducation Loan Marketing Corporation said June 27 The government. O’Toole said, "is so overloaded with try ing to sell off real estate and other assets" ot the institu lions that "the sale of Stafford loans is a low priority The result, he said, could be an increase in the di-fault rate during the next tew veers Daily Emerald CLASSIFIEDS To Place. 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