Demographic shifts and funding woes have led a diverse and growing array of colleges to hire recruiters who live and work hundreds of miles from campus. Is it worth it? Marist College is probably the second best-known private higher education institution in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the post-industrial city a few hours north of the Big Apple that is also home to the liberal arts darling Vassar College. And yet Marist recruiter Angie Alamah is not visiting high schools up and down the Hudson River or even in Connecticut and New Jersey; she lives and works hundreds of miles away in Dallas.