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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My college now requires students to live on campuses all three years.  The rule has nothing to do with fostering a learning environment.  The school just realized that everyone was moving off campus ASAP and the school was losing on housing and dorm fees.  So they tripled up old dorms and required everyone to stay on campus thru junior year.  Yuck.  I moved off after freshman year.[/quote]

All 3 years?  Isn't there typically 4 years?[/quote]

Yes, meant first three years.  When we went on tour with kids the tour guide went on and on about how this fosters a great community and everyone gets to know each other's names.  Plus they tripled up all the doubles and SURPRISE did not let us see a single room.  Wrong. Faculty told me that they needed the dorm money and food plan - too many students were moving off as they had when I attended.  Another thing the tour guide went on about was how "international" it was and how "EVERYONE" did study abroad.  Same faculty told me the college had figured out by sending a class abroad every year they banked the difference between SLAC/LAC tuition and the cost the college arranged abroad.  "So we in effect have five classes running through the campus instead of four years at one time!  We make so much more money".  Then the kids return only to find out they can't get the classes they need or can't finish thesis in time = five years paid to LAC.[/quote]

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