Like Chrissie Hynde in the Pretenders' song "My City Was Gone," Hopkins found a dramatically different landscape than the one he recalled.
"When I left 27 years ago, Ohio was on top," said Hopkins, an Elyria native who in February 2007 became Wright State's sixth president.
Manufacturing was driving Ohio's prosperity at that time, Hopkins said. "We didn't make the adjustment, as others did, to a new knowledge economy driven by something else."
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