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
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