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After a tough but promising freshman year, Dartmouth student tackles change at elite campuses

The Hechinger Report

“We are expected to fail,” said Inoa, discussing widely held perceptions of poor black and Latino young men, while gesturing towards Dartmouth’s iconic symbols of privilege: white brick buildings with black shutters, sweeping lawns and well-stocked libraries. “We We are not supposed to be here.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” asks New York Magazine. Ed-Tech Magazine asks “How Diverse Is the Higher Ed IT Workforce ?” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? The Harvard Library Innovation Lab on link rot : “A Million Squandered: The ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ as a Decaying Digital Artifact.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. ” In other MIT news : “MIT task force releases preliminary ‘Future of Libraries ’ report.” Via the New York Magazine : “The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place.”