A Small Team of Consultants With Large Sway in Higher Education

When lawmakers reshape public-college systems, a study center often supplies the ideas

Aims C. McGuinness woke up in yet another hotel room in yet another state with the destiny of yet another public-college system largely in his hands.

Outside, the sun peeked over the mountains surrounding Flatwoods, a town that welcomes traffic off Interstate 79 with a billboard boasting of its status as the "Geographic Center of West Virginia." Shortly, dozens of public-college leaders from

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