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computer labs, office space to accommodate approximately 100 people (including 60 instructors) and about 350 beds. Strategic or Short-Sighted? Oregon State entered into the partnership with INTO with which had declined after September 11. As other institutions look to raise their international student enrollment, an increasing number are saying they can’t do it on their own. Particularly when it comes to international recruiting, many U.S. universities are simply deciding that they don’t have the resources to maintain a global presence of sufficient size and scope. As such, the controversial practice of hiring outside agents, is growing rapidly and privatized pathway programs – in which companies provide both recruitment and education services – are in many ways a natural extension of this trend. “International recruiting is hard, it’s time-consuming, it’s very expensive,” said Green, of Kaplan International Colleges. “There’s a trade-off for a university. A university can retain total control and cover a small part of the world, or yield some control and cover a much larger piece of the world.” Ceding control of the recruitment process continues to be one of the main arguments against employing outside agents in recruitment. And when it comes to offering credit-bearing, academic coursework, ceding control is precisely what opponents of pathway programs are most worried about. “Navitas has such a capacity for recruitment that it is appealing to university administrators, but I think it’s just terribly short-sighted,” said Carrie Dawson, an associate professor of English and president of the Faculty Association at Dalhousie University, in Nova Scotia; the union is opposing a proposed contract with Navitas. “We do need to attend to our enrollment; we just don’t think this is the way to do it. We want to do it with our own faculty, to our own standards.” In the association notes that administrators have emphasized that Dalhousie departments would “oversee” the Navitas classes. “But what that means is not entirely clear,” the letter states. “What isclear is that Dalhousie departments will lose a large measure of control over their courses where those courses are taught by Navitas’s staff and taught to Navitas’s standards. Those standards will likely be different than our own: because Navitas is primarily concerned with profit, it seeks to pass along as many students as possible while keeping its
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