July 18, 2008
Crippled Housing Market Complicates Recruiting Efforts
Job candidates stymied by inability to sell homes; first-time buyers thrive
With a house languishing in the real-estate doldrums of southwestern Ohio, Edward F. Leonard III and his family have lived apart since he took over as president of Bethany College, in Kansas, nearly a year ago. Their situation is like that of many faculty members and administrators frustrated by housing prices across the country.
"We got tired of being a long-distance family," Mr. Leonard said this month
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