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car turns heads While searching the Internet, he located a dealer based in nearby Oxford. Moody’s Investors Service ranked Charlottesville 31 out of 379 cities in the company’s business vitality index. Charlottesville was the only Virginia city ranked in the top 50 ... How
high is too high in Oxford? One is along the fast-growing commercial area on West Jackson Avenue; the other is a seemingly stalled commercial development off State Highway 7. The whole question of “how high is too high?” is just one more that Oxford must consider as it tries to balance growth with preservation, aesthetics and other quality-of-life issues ... Hub
City among top college towns In the May edition, Hattiesburg was rated among the magazines "Top
Ten Towns For Grownups" as part of an article titled "Attractions
of a College Town," focusing on the interests of persons 40 and older. Judge:
Chapel Hill, UNC need to help homeless "We need to look at a new paradigm locally," Buckner said. "Forget what the state does." ... Dark
side of progress Off-campus real estate investments, including a $16 million land purchase in the Calhoun Street corridor and the Stratford Heights housing complex, could add millions in new red ink ... Harvard
Law School to move historic houses in preparation for new campus development Reno
City Council mulls new party house rules The social host ordinance would hold property owners responsible for the actions of tenants. For complaints of repeated and persistent loud partying, tenants and-or property owners could be fined. A final vote is set for June 27 ... U
finding unique routes to sustainability The U also hosted a regional conference in the spring that gave other universities from Utah, Wyoming and Idaho a behind-the-scenes opportunity to see how the campus was slowly turning green, said Lindsay Clark, who co-founded the Sustainable Environments and Ecological Design student group ... Housing
help for college faculty The 42 paired homes - two separate homes built on one lot - are located on a Fullerton hilltop and provide a view of the city. The homes are also located within one mile of downtown Fullerton and accessible to Brea Dam Recreational Park. "We're trying to make it easier for people to come and live in the area," said Teri Fuller, a sales representative. Fuller said that Southern California is a shock for individuals who come to live and purchase a home in the community ... Antioch
College to Close Main College Antioch’s official announcement said that the college could reopen as soon as 2012, in some new form. But in an interview Tuesday evening, the university’s chancellor used “if” to describe a prospective reopening ... Savvy
parents invest in student property The research shows that shrewd parents can make a profit of up to £32,000 over a three-year period. The research showed that Edinburgh is the most attractive university town to invest in with an average three-bedroom terrace property appreciating by almost £29,000. Additional profits can also be made as a parent’s child will not be paying excessive rents to other property owners, which brings the total profit to £31, 527 ... Student
Housing Portfolio Trades for $256M With the purchase, Campus Apartments now holds student housing properties in 11 states from Pennsylvania to California, with a total of more than 12,000 beds. To accommodate the new assets, the firm will add more than 150 new employees. "This portfolio allows us to extend the Campus Apartments brand to new university markets nationwide," said company president & CEO David Alterman, who went on to say that the firm planned to continue a similar investment strategy over the next few years. Housing
impacts seen as minimal Though the proposed development would increase enrollment by 11,385 students to nearly 45,000 by 2025, university officials cite enough student housing planned by SDSU and private developers to neutralize any adverse effects on the community ... STUDENT
HOUSING INCHES FORWARD Representatives from the company sited their success in other towns and cities across New York and said that “We’ll be a business that will be coming here like any other business.” ... University
House apartments bought by Philadelphia-based company The University House, which includes 144 units and 528 beds, may expand under the new ownership. A proposal for 150 more units on the property was submitted to the Planning, Zoning and Codes Department this spring. The sale was part of a $256 million transaction between Campus Apartments and Dallas-based FirstWorthing Residential, for 14 properties across the country ... Sustainable
Success Sharing Provide ways for students to be sustainability ambassadors. The University of California, Berkeley, runs three green demonstration areas ( www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~grc/gr/index.html)--a dorm room, an apartment, and a suite--where the hosts are live-in students. During tours, guests (about half of whom are current students) can see what environmentally friendly products are being used by those students and learn general facts about sustainability, explains Desirae Early, the university's Green Campus Program ... The
Disappearing City: Surviving UNCG's summer break Planners
hear public on 'family'definition change The differences between the two designations are sizes of lots and setbacks from the street ... Student
fears over lodgings law The union says councils are calling for "use classes" orders, which would allow them to control the number of HMOs for various categories of people. The NUS said this could lead to a reduction of lodgings for students. It said tensions between students and local communities were based on the anti-social actions of a minority ... Web
site lets students tell all about their landlords Most of the 38 landlords listed as of yesterday were in Pittsburgh, and a couple others were in State College. But the 10-week-old Web site also carries a smattering of out-of-state landlord reviews from Indiana, New York, Colorado, Texas and California ... Princeton
Future asks the 'What if' questions Bringing
Together Lifetime Learners They attract alumni, retired staff members, parents of faculty and people who just like the intellectual stimulation of a college town. The common thread is that "they attract lifelong learners," ... Charlottesville's
Festival of the Photograph Worth A Second LOOK Founded by National Geographic photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols and local business leader Jessica Nagle, LOOK3 was billed as three days of peace, love and photography. As a first-time event, LOOK3 suffered from a few hiccups as it tried to find its voice, but organizers still turned out a photographically solid event ... SIUC,
city taking cooperation to 'a new level' Cole, SIU President Glenn Poshard and incoming SIUC Chancellor Fernando Treviño will spend some time this summer working on ways to more closely tie the university and city communities. The collaboration is forming largely due to university officials' push to bolster enrollment, which has been falling in recent years, but also because Carbondale benefits greatly from having SIUC in its backyard, Cole said.
Oxford
Officials May Change Drinking Laws A second violation will draw a three-week license suspension and a second year of probation, and a third violation will require license revocation for at least two years ... Students
should get locally involved, says National Union of Students In its new report on students in the community, the NUS has urged student unions to promote the positive contribution students make and create contacts with community groups, landlord groups, local councils and police ... Greener
pastures: Luther College harvesting years of ecofriendly ventures In January, Luther president Richard Torgerson became a charter signer on the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, a pledge to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions ... “One of our goals — and I think in some ways it’s going to be the easiest one — is to model stewardship and sustainability in all of our college operations,” Jensen said. “That’s much easier than saying, ‘How do we take 2,600 students and roughly 500 employees and begin to shift their habits and ways of thinking? How do you do it?’ And my first response is, ‘Damn good question. We’ll let you know.’” ... UR's
footprint is growing He said UR is considering turning that property and the former Wegmans site on Mt. Hope, now used as a parking lot, into "a combination of medicine, academic use, retail and housing." The Mt. Hope plans are only at the conceptual stage, Paprocki said, with "a few years before we see this development actually take place." But, he said, "as you travel around the country and see what has been done at Johns Hopkins (in Baltimore) and (University of Pennsylvania) at Philadelphia, this kind of development is ... an effective way to have a project that can accommodate an institution's needs and a great enhancement for the community." ... Graduating
from poverty Since only 55 of the 1,500 students enrolled at MSU-WP live on campus, many face off-campus housing and transportation expenses. An unexpected cost, such as the skyrocketing price of gasoline, has forced some students to stop attending class ... Needy
UNT students receive free tuition "People who consider themselves poor don't even think about college, because they see that as something they can't afford," said Dr. Bataille, president of the University of North Texas. That perception needs to change, she says, and a new scholarship program at the school should help ...
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