November 3, 2006
In Rural America, Few People Harvest 4-Year Degrees
Big Bend Community College tries to improve college enrollment and fight poverty as its area's minority population grows
This wide, arid expanse of central Washington State is filled with rolling rows of alfalfa, potatoes, and other crops, irrigated by the Columbia River and its tributaries. Most of the fields have been harvested now but, in the orchards, apples are ripe for the picking.
The region's close ties to the land and to the seasonal cycles of agriculture have long
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