11.   At private colleges, their authority typically has depended on the municipality, although increasingly even those police forces are becoming autonomous.

12.   Baylor, like many private colleges, faces spiraling costs while trying to keep tuition rates affordable for students.

13.   Biers MASSACHUSETTS -- XXXX MICHIGAN -- Highly regarded public research universities are falling behind elite private colleges in granting salary increases to professors.

14.   About half a dozen small private residential colleges close their doors every year, and many others survive only by merging with larger institutions.

15.   After briefly attending a private college in Helena, Mont., Campana headed for Arizona with plans to teach Catholic school.

16.   After all, Dora Cisneros was the daughter of a well-regarded family of landowners and had been educated at a private college.

17.   Bush will campaign at Dillard University, a private college whose president is Michael Lomax.

18.   But college administrators and financial aid specialists alike say that in the competition among private colleges and universities for applicants, games are often played with financial aid.

19.   But he will be enrolling in a private college this fall.

20.   But keep in mind that many private colleges, particularly in the Ivy League, include such accounts in their calculations.