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“It’s not that the faculty have grown soft, it’s that the students are working.” — Richard Arum, dean of the School of Education at the University of California at Irvine, on why students are studying more during the pandemic. Arum and a team of researchers tracked more than 2,000 students through surveys, academic performance, and other data, evaluating the impact of Covid-19 on how students learn and grow in college. Read more from Beth McMurtrie in The Chronicle: “Good Grades, Stressed Students.”