May Become?

From an article in the NYTimes:

If you doubt this, Fosco can let you talk to any number of his students (and they are students in California, which is one of the few states with relatively affordable higher ed.).

For a more well-considered take on all of this, read KFR's commentary.

Also from the Times, a story about how college students are working on applied town planning in rural Vermont. Maybe if other communities realized that their local colleges and universities could be resources for improving everyday civic life. Maybe there would be less resentment toward public universities (and the concomitant unwillingness to adequately fund them) if people realized that public universities can help to improve everyday life in very local ways.