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W hen she taught Italian at the University of Colorado, Nivea Soto-Lightbourn loved to see older students — from their mid-50s on up — arrive to audit her class, sprinkling flecks of gray amid the youthful undergraduate enrollment.

For one thing, they were happy to be there, even though auditing a class comes with no college credit. Also, they came prepared. And while they weren’t required to complete assignments and take exams, they often did so

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