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    Retire on campus? Colleges find community with intergenerational living.

    by Sarah Matusek Dec 10, 2021 5 minutes

    Ruth Jones lives on top of the world – her world, anyway.

    From nine stories high, she can gaze down at a sun-smothered, urban Arizona sprawl featuring a school she began serving in 1981 – the top of an auditorium here, her last faculty office there.

    The former political science professor is so fond of Arizona State University that she retired on campus.

    “One of my former professors said, ‘Stay on campus as long as you possibly can. … Because those students will keep you young,’” she recalls. “I realized the wisdom in what he said.”

    Dr. Jones lives in a high-end, intergenerational senior living residence that opened on the Tempe campus last year. With perks like access to classes and campus IDs, Mirabella at ASU is billed as

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