Dashed Hopes in Missouri

A fiscal crisis derails an ambitious agenda for higher education

It was the middle of a Monday afternoon in mid-September, but the office of Missouri's commissioner of higher education was abandoned and dark, except for the sunlight that filtered through a window blind and fell upon an empty desk and bare wall. The room's former occupant, Kala M. Stroup, had packed up her belongings and left the week before, after seven years on the job. She had no idea who would replace her, but she

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