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Originally Posted by gee_ess
^^Every college campus is different. Suitcase colleges are also often called commuter colleges because a large percentage of the student body commutes to campus and therefore, does not live in oncampus housing. This may be the case here. Students also leave campus because the activities or town is lacking...
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No, these are two different things.
Commuter colleges are meant to be that way....there is not enough housing available to accomodate the majority of the student body. The majority of students go home at the end of the day, they don't live in dorms or apartments near the college.
Suitcase colleges have ample housing on and off campus (near the school) for students to live there during the week. They just go to their hometowns on weekends because (in their perception) there is nothing to keep them around.
"Suitcase college" has a negative connotation. "Commuter college" does not and should not.