To administrators of the financially troubled college here, Joan Weill’s appearance on campus more than 20 years ago may have seemed like the arrival of a fairy godmother. Mrs. Weill, the wife of the Wall Street billionaire Sanford I. Weill, did not graduate from the institution. But she apparently took a liking to it when she visited the unassuming Paul Smith’s College on the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake. As the only four-year college in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Paul Smith’s is well known in the region for its hotel-management and wildlife and forestry programs. The college’s $36.6 million annual budget is both an economic driver and a source of pride and identity for the rural community in northern New York State. Its student body of about 1,000 doubles the area’s population.

August 17, 2015 ・ From The New York Times