June 28, 2002
New Moniker Pays Off
Officials at the university formerly known as Beaver College are finding that if you trade in your fur, they will come. Students, that is.
A year after it became Arcadia University, enrollment at the Pennsylvania institution is up 20 percent, the number of applications has jumped to 2,560 from 1,912, and the prospective students hail from 48 states, 13 more than last year.
The university changed its name last July, officials say, to kick-start its stagnant enrollment and to shed
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