Other universities, while not taking things quite that far, have lured their students onto Snapchat to make unofficial campus guides, deliver in-the-moment news, and solicit selfies taken at school activities for promotional material. It’s all in the interest of trying to become more relatable and modern to today’s tech-savvy students. Whether centuries-old universities can really change all that quickly at their core, of course, is another matter.

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