How can a college that isn’t a brand-name research powerhouse take part in the rapidly expanding global higher education marketplace? An administrator put that question to me the other day when I spoke at Pittsburg State University in rural southern Kansas. Pitt State (home of the Gorillas) is a regional institution with about 7,000 students. Most of them are from small towns in Kansas, with students from nearby Oklahoma and Missouri thrown into the mix. The university, a little more than two hours’ drive from Kansas City, prides itself on the attention it gives to its undergraduates, many of whom are first-generation college students. Its mission is extremely important, but it isn’t one that is usually associated with educational cosmopolitanism.
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Author: Ben Wildavsky
