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Alex C. Lange

@itsalexcl.bsky.social
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education prof studying how students learn and change (or not) in college + how colleges affect learning • cinephile • they/them 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a good day to come back to Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Famous”
Famous
BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
The river is famous to the fish.
The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so.
The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds watching him from the birdhouse.
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom is famous to your bosom.
The boot is famous to the earth, more famous than the dress shoe, which is famous only to floors.
The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.
I want to be famous to shuffling men who smile while crossing streets, sticky children in grocery lines, famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"If advocates for higher education want to regain public trust, they might start with better publicizing this fact" When we accept the reality that public tuition prices have been decreasing, it clarifies the options available for lots of higher ed policy problems www.chalkbeat.org/2026/10/01/w...
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The surprising truth about those soaring college tuition prices
Most students don’t actually pay that much, and real tuition costs have been falling.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Emerging from the deluge that is this forehose of a semester to share a special early delivery of Barrett Taylor and @cantb.bsky.social’s new book! Looking forward to diving in!
Photo of a book with brick and mortar cover vibes entitled _The Postliberal University: Governance, Leadership, and Partisanship in Higher Education_.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣 We’re hiring! Colorado State University is seeking its next Director of the School of Education in the College of Health and Human Sciences. This is a 12-month, full-time faculty position. csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/fortco...
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Director, School of Education
Job Description Position Summary: The Director of the School of Education leads a dynamic team of faculty, staff, and students in pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, and engagement. Candidate...
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
resegregation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Colleges getting really strict on those deposits for housing. Sadly Mr. Bear does not get to participate in move-in day (because of course this happened next to my building and I got to campus for my meeting right at this moment)
Two Colorado wildlife officials securing the best in the back of a truckSilver truck with a bear cage in the back where you can just barely see the bear tranquilized
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Sometimes people ask me what I'm following that they might not be aware of because I have to care so much about the feds. One of the things is the looming end of the fiscal year and unspent funds at IES. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Concerns Remain Over ED’s Plan to Spend Expiring IES Dollars
Higher education advocates say delays in education research funding have already caused severe damage.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the style of Celine Dion: “A new…semester…has…come!”
Screenshots of a text message alert letting folks know a bear is on campus and its safe removal is being coordinated. (But also I have a name so?)
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
insidehighered.com
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For the first time in five years of teaching this intensive, week-long higher education policy course, I managed to get through all the planned content and activities for the first day. Just dreaming about all the things I won’t have to rush through during the next four days.
A screencap of Jean Smart from “Hacks” smiling with a caption on the image stating “Girl who is ‘going to be okay’”
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’ve worked Bill Withers, Miss Frizzle, India.Arie, and Frieren all into my talk on Monday and I’m feeling accomplished as a result
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Taking a break from family reunion prep to share a new article I co-authored on how state and national politics are shaping LGBTQ+ college students’ well-being. scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol3/...
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“I Don’t Always See a Future for Me Here”: Oppressive Political Pressures on LGBTQ+ College Students’ Well-Being
In recent decades, colleges have broadly supported LGBTQ+ students. Now, institutions have shuttered LGBTQ+ initiatives in response to political pressures, with little consideration for the effects on...
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Cool cool cool. www.npr.org/2026/06/16/n...
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Trump further guts Education Dept. by shifting oversight of special ed, civil rights
The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.
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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“I’ve never seen such intrusion” into curriculum, said John Thelin, an emeritus professor of higher ed at the University of Kentucky. He said he’s also surprised at how effective the intrusion has been. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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How GOP State Lawmakers Are Reshaping General Education
Legislators are increasingly determining colleges’ core classes, underscoring how higher ed has become a political lightning rod.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They are here and they are real (even as it all still feels surreal). Finally got my copies of our new book, _College Student Development Theory in Action_. Grateful to my co-authors + the team alongside us who made it happen.
Photo of the book with one standing up with a non-descriptive head on the cover and the other four laying beside it.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Praise be to PhD student me who saved and meticulously put notes in all my .do files
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 11/06/2026
"Compliance ceases to be a fixed legal threshold and becomes an ever-narrowing set of assumptions about political risk," write @jackiepedota.bsky.social (@umassboston.bsky.social), @garceslm.bsky.social (@alliancehighered.bsky.social), and Eliza Epstein in @insidehighered.com:
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How Universities Expand the Reach of Anti-DEI Laws (opinion)
Colleges and universities amplify the impacts of anti-DEI laws through the processes they use to (over-)comply with them.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Re-downloaded Stata and re-teaching myself OLS regressions this summer because I am a nerddd
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Once again, I appreciate the clarity of @bakerdphd.bsky.social’s writing and the grounded nature of her arguments. Another must read.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 04/06/2026
In its first semester, the University of Iowa’s civics center had less than 20 students taking their courses. By 2028, every student at the university will be required to take two courses there. chroni.cl/4vs80Me
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A Flagship’s Civics Center Saw Low Enrollment. Now Students Will Be Required to Take Classes There.
A provision in the Iowa state budget will require all students at the University of Iowa to complete two classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom to get their degree.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Love education data? The Strategic Data Project is looking for data fellows for placements in Texas, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Trenton, and NOVA/DC. Position description and requirements: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET on 6/21
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[Job Posting] Strategic Data Project Fellow Cohort 18
The Cohort 18 application will open on Monday, September 29, 2025. Position: Strategic Data Project Fellow Location: Multiple US Locations (see below) Duration: Summer/Fall 2026 through Summer 2028 ...
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
For the first time, I have PhD advisees (4) doing data collection of their own: wow an underrated fun part of this advising thing is getting some of the most nerdy, fun messages about the process!
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Getting steps in during this writing retreat on campus
A picture of the Oval on CSU’s campus
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Do I think this development is incidental to efforts that both seek to drive down trust in higher ed and to assert political control over colleges and universities? I do not. www.chronicle.com/article/nonw...
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Nonwhite Students Now Represent the Largest Share of U.S. College Enrollment
New IPEDS data reflect long-running demographic shifts in higher education.
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I want to talk to mid-career faculty at institutions and in states that have adopted post-tenure review or other policies that may make tenure seem a less stable prospect. How do those policies influence your thinking about going up for tenure - or maintaining it? DM or email me!
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 27/05/2026
The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF
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New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 28/05/2026
I shared some thoughts about the Texas governor's letter reminding the state's public colleges and universities to freeze tuition for the fourth straight year.
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Texas tuition freeze to continue as Abbott orders colleges to keep rates flat
Gov. Greg Abbott reminded all public universities and colleges that tuition must remain flat as Texas enters the third year of his ordered tuition freeze.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"'The fragility of academic freedom is the distance between our soaring rhetoric and the harsh realities of trying to put them into practice,' said panelist Dominique Baker, associate professor of education and public policy." I gotta transcribe my portion of this talk www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/...
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Shining a light on academic freedom | UDaily
Constitutional scholar and UD experts discuss principles, protections and responsibilities
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 07/05/2026
The Smith College investigation marks the first time the Trump administration is considering whether trans students should gain admission to certain schools. theconversation.com/federal-inve...
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Federal investigation into Smith College probes whether transgender students can attend women’s schools – challenging the evolving mission of women’s education
The Smith College investigation marks the first time the Trump administration is considering whether trans students should gain admission to certain schools.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Meme of a very large ship run aground in the Suez Canal, with a tiny looking digger, trying to free the ship. The ship is labeled canvas hack. The digger is labeled university IT.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Justttt as I was drafting an email to get ahead of it, we get this alert like we do for weather related or campus closure alerts
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Taylor Odle @taylorodle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Speaking individually as a college access and financial aid expert, I’ll use a technical term to describe this headline: complete bullshit.
Link to news article reading: “Fact Sheet: The Trump Administration is Making College More Affordable” from the U.S. Department of Education
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Grateful to @us.theconversation.com for inviting me to write about the federal investigation into Smith College and what it means for women’s colleges, transgender students, and the evolving mission of women’s education. theconversation.com/federal-inve...
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Federal investigation into Smith College probes whether transgender students can attend women’s schools – challenging the evolving mission of women’s education
The Smith College investigation marks the first time the Trump administration is considering whether trans students should gain admission to certain schools.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Taught what will probably be my last in-person masters class of my career this afternoon. As our residential student affairs program comes to an end, I thought I felt all the things to feel. Nuh-uh said the universe!
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Having @mollyhm.bsky.social as both a friend and colleague has so many benefits, one being she’ll do a budget simulation that helps students synthesize their learning across the semester (and makes them feisty 🤣).
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
What a story. What a blessing she was to the fight. "At that first meeting, Dr. Long realized that the activists needed a guide who was fluent in science to help them expedite the approval of drugs to treat AIDS & the H.I.V. virus that causes it. “She was their scientific North Star." #GiftLink 🎁
By 1987, when Dr. Long first attended a meeting of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, she had retired from her work as an organic chemist. She was looking to help people directly, rather than in a laboratory. She was not politically active, didn’t know anyone with AIDS and wasn’t even sure she had ever met anyone who was gay.

“God, the epidemic was getting so bad, and she thought she could help,” Jim Eigo, a writer and leading ACT UP member who worked closely with Dr. Long, said in an interview. “We were a bunch of downtown queers, and she came from a background that was totally different from us. She brought her love to us.”
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Registered! ✅
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Quite excited for this event. Will really have to hold myself back from asking about Lee's thoughts on original rhony. There's a livestream in case you can't attend in person but want to watch!
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15/04/2026
This Yale report on reforming higher ed is going to get a lot of attention, but what is happening at broad-access institutions matters much more for improving the public perception of higher ed. My sweet little girl likes the Chronicle graphic, though. It's cute.
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Higher Ed Has a Trust Problem. Yale Thinks It Has Solutions.
A group convened by the university’s president cited three main factors fueling the loss of public support: cost, admissions, and speech. It proposed reforms in each category.
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15/04/2026
I have a new article out in The Review of Higher Education examining the economic returns to newly established master's degree programs. Overall, these new programs generate similar or somewhat better outcomes than existing programs, showing they're not just potential cash cows for universities.
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Sociology of Education, ASA journal @soceducation.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
📣New Article Alert📣 How is gender and sexuality institutionalized in higher education? Using longitudinal data collected on a national probability sample, this study examines whether and when HEIs establish LGBTQ resource centers and studies programs. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #SOE
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Contested Diversity? The Institutionalization of LGBTQ-Supportive Features in U.S. Higher Education, 1980 to 2018 - Hannah K. D’Apice, Christine Min Wotipka, 2026
This study seeks to understand the extent of and explanations for the institutionalization of sexuality and gender identity in U.S. higher education institution...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15/04/2026
I wrote a chapter for the @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social on college closures. It's a part of a great--and free--resource designed to support practitioners and policymakers in education.
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College Closures
As colleges and universities continue to face rising financial pressure, the topic of college closures has received increased attention from policymakers and the public. College closures are important...
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Dr. MHM @mollyhm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Gonna go out on a limb here and assume these tech fellas haven't considered state authorization as a thing they need to do once they start claiming to offer a postsecondary degree
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It may be a result of a very specific sample, and it’s been fascinating talking with research participants about AI this semester. These are undergrads who have been universally opposed to it.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
*inserts into class-relevant screencap folder*
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Finally got a moment to catch up on some news and @bakerdphd.bsky.social's newest column is once again a must-read. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is the type of thing I keep trying to talk to people about for higher ed. Not conference rooms where I "listen to diverse perspectives" but actually doing work to imagine what strengthening the US higher education system in furtherance of a democracy would look like.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
From Stanford to Gallup, nearly every organization that produces good information about anything of importance is in one way or another beholden to federal contracts. They are also deeply connected to elite political and economic networks thorough interlocking directorates and affiliations.
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Alex C. Lange @itsalexcl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
*insert Brigitte Nielsen laughing in disbelief gif* www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
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