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A college town.
That’s not to say Mesa had no place for kids to go after high school. It already had a robust community college, the burgeoning Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University and A.T. Still University, which specializes in health-care fields.
But what it lacked was the kind of small liberal-arts college you’ll find within a stone’s throw of almost anyone living in the Midwest or East. Often dating to the 19th century or even earlier, those kinds of schools never took root in Arizona as the state leapt from the Wild West to the Space Age in the blink of history’s eye. ....

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