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A School Championing Diversity in a Town That Resists It

Steve Kolowich | Chronicle of Higher Education

The majority of the Somali students at St. Cloud State [in Minnesota] had spent most of their lives in America. … They are part of a generation of refugees who are trying to do what immigrants in the United States have done for years: get educated, expand their horizons, and build better lives for themselves while also staying connected to the culture that

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