ALBANY, Aug. 23 — It felt like the start of fall, with cool air and the steady arrival of students to the State University at Albany campus.
At Public School 178 in upper Manhattan, a new elementary school, construction workers were scrambling yesterday to clear out garbage, install computers and hook up telephones before the arrival of students in less than 24 hours.
The toll lane closures caused massive Fort Lee traffic back-ups, which affected public safety due to extensive delays by police and emergency service providers and disrupted schools due to the delayed arrivals of students and teachers.
The college presently has less than two months to prepare for the arrival of 600 students, and is aiming to attract 2,000 female students over the next five years.
Had it not been for the last-minute arrival of some students from the United States and some Jewish tourists, the service would not have taken place.
With the arrival of the students, most of them girls, the place was transformed into cafeteria, rec room and playground, with a touch of nightclub.
Soon the detainees were puzzled by another prison oddity, the arrival of university students who had been arrested in Aleppo for protesting against the Assad regime.
For American flight schools, the arrival of foreign students was a welcome development after domestic enrollment plummeted in response to the collapse in job prospects following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Our Head of IT Services, Patrick, is busy establishing our network system and Philip, our Lab Technician, is doing his best to ensure all is in place for the arrival of our students.
The week in the run up to the arrival of our students was a particularly busy and anxious time, as we scrambled to get all our final arrangements in place.
The rapid arrival of international students in the U.S. is coincident with the Great Recession, when public and private coffers tightened dramatically.
