Paul Glastris

at U.S.

News was malarkey.

In our current issue, I mentioned Fresno State.

I don't know if you know about Fresno State.

Fresno State is in the heart of the Central Valley of California, in Fresno.

They take in

It's a total open access school.

It's the kind of school you might have gone to, Steve.

But a lot of their students come from very poor backgrounds.

The president of the school himself came from a farm family.

A lot of these students are dirt poor or modest income.

They don't charge too much money for the degree.

They graduate at higher rates than you would expect.

given their demographics.

They earn more than you would expect given their demographics.

And a lot of these kids, some of them anyway, go back to work and they stay in the area.

They don't jet off to New York or whatever.

They stay there in the Central Valley for the most part.

And some of them go back to become managers of the agricultural firms where they used to pick crops, right?

That's what higher education at its best,