Pitching Rural, Low-Income Students on Private Colleges

Education Week: Small, quiet Linfield College—set in bucolic Oregon wine country, about an hour outside Portland—is not for every student.

On a rainy Monday morning here in April, an introductory environmental-studies class has just one attendee. Only two other students are on the roster, and, as the professor points out, one is at a track meet.

The main campus of the private, nonprofit liberal arts college is on 185 mostly green acres and has only 1,700 students, most of whom live in the residential halls.

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