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Students are taking gap years to avoid online class, and startups are scooping them up

The Verge

Rather than spend a year staring at Zoom, some students are considering taking the semester off. Startups see this as an opportunity to recruit these students into virtual fall internships, Bloomberg reports. Startups are hoping to compete for top students. Others are extending the terms of their summer cohorts.

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The Role of DEI in Today’s Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

Recently, a master’s level student and her professor at Mindanao State University in the Philippines asked me to lecture their class on nonprofit management principles. Since I enjoy teaching, I loved this class interaction.

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This is how and when you should show vulnerability at work

Fast Company Tech

Encouraging vulnerability In my work as a facilitator of the Stanford Graduate School of Businesss popular organizational behavior elective, Interpersonal Dynamics (nicknamed touchy feely) we encourage MBA students to experiment with sharing vulnerability in small groups of peers.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

Julien Frei and Lea Perret [Image: 6pm in Paris] Learning as a lifelong journey Perret imagined 6pm in Paris as a way to help students learn French beyond the classroom. In 2013, she cofounded Coucou French Classes, which provides in-person classes in New York and Los Angeles. since then. I was fluent in less than a year.)

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This new startup is weeding out the weed-out classes, instead of students

TechCrunch

When asked what changed between his two startups, he says it boils down to one single insight: the point in which a founder has to start helping support students to be ultimately successful. A lot of companies over the last two years are looking to group talent and looking at the old class of engineers,” Sommer said.

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These students figured out their tests were graded by AI — and the easy way to cheat

The Verge

He’d completed the first assignment for his seventh-grade history class on Edgenuity, an online platform for virtual learning. She surmised that Edgenuity’s AI was scanning for specific keywords that it expected to see in students’ answers. Students on @EdgenuityInc , there's your ticket. Photo by Phil Esposito.

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Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students

The Verge

Facebook is getting back to its roots today with the launch of a new product called Campus, a section of the main app specifically designed for college students. In a nod to the original Facebook, they’ll even have access to a “Campus directory” where they can find and friend other students.

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