Last fall, Winona State University opened a 90,000-square-foot Integrated Wellness Complex on the east side of the campus, just across the street from the university's performing-arts center. The complex houses classroom and administrative space along with aerobics facilities, weight rooms, a glass atrium, and a 200-meter indoor track. Massage therapy is available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. It cost $19.5-million to build.
It might seem strange, or even cruel, to blame a perfectly benign building at a perfectly respectable university in Minnesota for the coming demise of higher education as we know it. To understand why it is nonetheless true, you have to consider where Winona State started and why it became what it is today.
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Author: Kevin Carey
