And in your opinion what else do people in those places deserve?  For persons choosing to live in those rural locales there are consequences. Scarcity of many things are some of those consequences. We are a big state, frankly living beyond our means. We cannot afford to make Anchorage like Seattle, or Nome like Anchorage, or the Chukchi Campus like UAA.  Underlying your comment is the notion that these small rural campuses provide economic opportunity. For whom, the employees?  If that is your vision of UA's mission then it is unsustainable.