Shift on Agents

By Elizabeth Redden. A special commission studying the use of commission-based recruitment of international students has urged the National Association for College Admission Counseling to lift a ban on the practice, while at the same time discouraging it. In a pre-release version of the commission report obtained by Inside Higher Ed, NACAC's Commission on International Student Recruitment recommends that the association's policies be amended to stipulate that members "should not" (but not "may not," as is currently the case) provide incentive-based compensation in international student recruiting. Read more...