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Roughly 85% to 93% of Idaho's incorporated towns and cities are considered rural, depending on the population threshold used. About 70% of our school districts are rural too. Yet people in rural communities often say they feel forgotten, as if every decision at the Capitol revolves around the "great state of Ada." Their message is simple: our towns and our people matter too.

So what is the value of a university to a rural community?

In this episode, Alexis sits down with Dr. Dax Jacobson, Dean of the Gore School of Business at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dax grew up in small-town Idaho, and he hosts The Rural Towns Project podcast. Each episode focuses on one rural town in Idaho or Utah, highlighting its people and businesses and learning from them.

Together, they explore:

• What universities and colleges owe the rural communities around them
• How Dax's business students are working alongside rural entrepreneurs
• What rural towns can teach the rest of us about people, resilience, and community
• The hometown that inspired the very first episode of The Rural Towns Project

It's a conversation about connecting institutions to the places people call home, and why rural Idaho deserves a seat at the table.

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