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  1. As one Twitter user put it, “I wish I could be surprised by this, but I work in a university library.”

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  2. NEW: College campuses are political spaces. As the 2020 candidates crisscross the nation before the Dem primaries, and I wanted to know: What could we find out about the candidates based on the campuses they visited? Here's what we got:

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  3. “Grief isn’t this forward march of progress.”

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  4. Teaching students how to acquire “social capital” for academic credit? was a bit doubtful at first, but as she writes in The Edge newsletter this week, there are models that prove this can be valuable.

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  5. Private industry has long been woven into campus life, but in the last few years, campus-company agreements have gotten more creative and expansive.

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  6. The great scandal of American higher education today is that African American college graduates have only grown more impoverished due to high debt burdens that are not offset by economic advancement, says Patricia McGuire.

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  7. “Make advising an integrative experience” and four other expert takes on how to help students thrive.

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  8. Students at opposite ends of the political spectrum joined forces to tackle what they called an abuse of power.

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  9. The anxiety and mental-health crisis now being documented does not end when doctoral students graduate — a new survey seeks to measure its extent in graduate school and postgraduate life.

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  10. “People know how to make paragraphs and footnotes at this point, but if there are new tricks to holding onto your documents in a cloud-based environment, I think we would like to know what those tricks are.”

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  11. Your course isn’t the only thing students have going on. And it’s more relevant for some of them than others.

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  12. Most studies of state spending on higher education assume lawmakers are making rational choices. Researchers are increasingly questioning that assumption.

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  13. Professors have been policing status in formal and informal ways since at least the invention of the modern university.

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  14. So far, just one person on an American campus has tested positive for coronavirus. But colleges are getting ready.

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  15. When it comes to student loans, “do you really have any moral obligation to pay an investor who bought your $1,000 debt for $40? Why can’t you just pay that $40?”

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  16. Many low-income and first-gen students “are psyching themselves out before they even start” vying for jobs and internships, because they don’t realize their backgrounds can be a strength, the founder of Braven tells in The Edge newsletter.

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  17. College students are valuable customers for companies, which hope to set buying habits that may last for decades.

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  18. If top companies recruit at top universities only, we will never make real progress in advancing social equity, says Patricia McGuire.

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  19. What’s one change colleges can make, in philosophy or practice, to improve the student experience? 5 experts weigh in.

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  20. An open letter exemplifies nonpartisan organizing among student activists.

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