More campuses are outsourcing child care; why colleges don't do more to help students in need; where associate professors get paid the most; and more.
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By Tom Bartlett

While medievalists battle, white nationalists try to co-opt the past. (PREMIUM)

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Parental Concerns
By Liam Knox

Campuses are increasingly outsourcing child care to for-profit companies, triggering protests from student and faculty parents. The issue has led administrators across the country to ask: Is the university best suited to provide these services, and is it worth the investment? (PREMIUM)

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By Goldie Blumenstyk

Competing priorities are always a barrier, even when it comes to offering something as simple as unused meal-card swipes.

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Most institutions with the highest average pay for associate professors in 2017-18 were on the East Coast or the West Coast or in Illinois. (PREMIUM)

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By Julia Schmalz

In an international competition like no other, students glide through the water in compact human-powered submarines that they’ve designed and built themselves. (PREMIUM)

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By Richard D. Legon

Colleges assume that the public dislikes them because it doesn’t know them. It’s not that simple. (PREMIUM)

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