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Universities are built to serve straight, cis-gendered, male, white, middle- and upper-class students who perceive themselves to be individuals first rather than members of a family or community. If that seems like a lot of identities to process, think of it this way—what is considered normal is actually a very narrow identity most students don’t fit. It’s not that minorities of different types don’t fit into a college experience as seamlessly as others, it’s that most students today are not the people for whom this system originally was designed to educate.
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Chen, A.H. (2022). Learning. In: 1000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06497-5_8
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