January 25, 2008
The Vanishing Higher-Education Reporter
Anyone entering one of the many restaurants in Providence, R.I., is likely to end up sitting next to out-of-town parents visiting their sons and daughters who attend nearby colleges. That's because Rhode Island has one of the highest (the local chamber of commerce says the highest) concentration of colleges and universities in the United States.
Given that higher education commands a huge payroll in the city, you might assume that the local newspaper, The Providence Journal, fields a
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