Could Small Town Harvards Revive Rural America?

Could Small Town Harvards Revive Rural America?
AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File

In the mid-1970s, the town of Fairfield, Iowa, had a problem. Parsons College, which had been one of the town's economic anchors for nearly a century, lost its accreditation in 1967 and shut down in 1973. The town faced the future of many rural towns across America: declining population and worsening economic fortunes.

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