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The Higher Ed Insights Archive Post
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The international students helping fund financial aid are disappearing
International enrollment declined sharply this year, and at hundreds of tuition-dependent colleges, the money that quietly funded domestic aid budgets and academic programs went with it.
Harrison Keller found this out the hard way. When 2,...
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