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Holly K. Hacker

Holly K. Hacker in an education reporter and data specialist at The Dallas Morning News.

hechinger.institute+hollykhacker@gmail.com
Posted inHigher Education

The realities of being black at one Texas university

Avatar photo by Dianne Solis and Holly K. Hacker December 17, 2015April 8, 2021

D’Marquis Allen, a Southern Methodist University senior, spotted the party invitation on Facebook at 3:47 a.m. on a Tuesday in October. Two predominantly white fraternities planned to throw “the most savage banger in SMU history.” This story also appeared in The Dallas Morning News The post pictured a black rapper biting a gold chain. His […]

Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting wider, fast

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hacker December 17, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Colleges that pledged to help poor families have been doing the opposite, new figures show

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hacker November 30, 2014April 8, 2021
Freshman Esmeralda Rosas of Dallas is going to the University of North Texas because of the Emerald Eagle Scholar program, an affordable education plan for lower-income families. Here she is photographed in the campus library where she comes to study, Monday, January 27, 2014. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Tuition tracker

How some families pay less for college than others

Avatar photo by Holly K. Hacker March 9, 2014April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Tuition tracker

Poorer families are bearing the brunt of college price hikes, data show

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jon Marcus and Holly K. Hacker March 9, 2014April 8, 2021
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