Lower standards may explain higher completion; training graduate students to teach; students as colleges' social-media ambassadors; and more.
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Campus Safety
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By Emma Pettit

The killing of a student, one in a growing list of victims, opened her university’s eyes to the unseen danger of intimate-partner violence. (PREMIUM)

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Completion
By Katherine Mangan

A working paper tests the hypothesis that colleges are making it easier to graduate. (PREMIUM)

Backgrounder
By Katherine Mangan

The shift at the huge public-university system casts new attention on questions about how colleges decide who’s ready for college-level work. (PREMIUM)

Teaching
By Beckie Supiano

Readers shared their strategies for preparing future professors for the classroom. A few took issue with the question.  

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Branding
By Grace Elletson

A budding strategy in higher education involves recruiting students as social-media influencers, to sell their collegiate brands as campus ambassadors. (PREMIUM)

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Advice
By James M. Lang

Why colleges and universities that claim to take teaching seriously need a comprehensive and fair system of evaluating it.

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