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What We’re Reading This Week, October 17-21

The End of Political Correctness on Campus – Trump says he’ll end it, but can he? More from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Debate: Five Takeaways – The tilt in Las Vegas had a little something for everyone: sharp personal attacks, substantive policy discussion and Trump’s unmatched ability to provoke controversy. More from The Hill

Nasty Woman: The Coolest Thing Hillary’s Ever Been Called – Within an hour of the debate about a quarter of a million tweets mentioned “nasty woman,” a vast number of them from women proudly declaring themselves nasty women too or, as one woman on Twitter put it, reclaiming their nastiness. More on The Washington Post

Growing Racial Disparities in Student Debt – Graduate enrollment is a worthwhile investment, the study finds, but comes with more financial risk for African-American students both because of their concentration in the for-profit sector and because of lower rates of graduation. More from Inside Higher Ed.

When Colleges Focus On Mastery – Scrap the lecture halls, final exams, degree plans, and traditional semesters. In a growing segment of higher education, students can enroll in a personalized online degree program that allows them to move through lessons as quickly as they can demonstrate mastery of the material. More from The Atlantic

Report: Biden’s Cancer Moonshot – By leveraging decades of scientific understanding from the study and care of cancer, creating and aggregating immensely powerful datasets, and developing unprecedented science and technological capabilities, we as a Nation are positioned to end cancer as we know it. More on the Moonshot effort.

Obama Tells Trump: Stop ‘Whining’  – President Obama ridiculed Donald J. Trump on Tuesday for saying that the presidential election was rigged against him. More from the New York Times.

Winning the Internet this Week: #TrumpBookReport  – People are tweeting Donald Trump’s take on old classics, and it’s wonderful. More from Buzzfeed.