Posted on July 10, 2012 by Sally Mesarosh
The idea was to take a sprawling desert suburb, better known for senior-living trailer parks than for schools, and retrofit it with the kinds of colleges that sprang up in America's older regions, decades or even centuries ago.
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July 9, 2012
http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2012/07/09/20120709mesa-college-town.html?sf5020497=1#ixzz20F18ioQA