Some parts of rural America are changing fast. Can higher education keep up?

September 27, 2023

DRIGGS, Idaho  It’s barely 6 a.m., and Alexis Luna is spending her one day off at the Teton Valley balloon festival, babysitting her three nephews so her sister won’t have to pay for day care. “I want to go up!” one of them shouts, scrambling over the bed of her black pickup truck.