Students seeking ââ?¬Ë?bond’ with universities — Colleges struggle to keep from losing freshmen to other schools

When Cara Cavacos enrolled as a freshman last year at Western Carolina College, she had every intention of staying for four years and earning a degree. But she began thinking that she wanted to be close to her home in Charlotte and to her fianc�©. She then made plans to transfer to the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.