Education is Everything: A small-town boy’s journey to university president

ADA – Growing up in small-town America is never easy. Rural Oklahoma life in the 20th century usually consisted of driving tractors, milking cows, baling and hauling hay, farming and scraping to get by most of the time. Theron and Jan Godwin, like most parents, wanted a better life for their children. To them, education was the solution. “College was not an option,” said Wendell...