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When credentials become proxies for merit in workplace advancement

I got promoted over my colleague who has been here longer because I went to an Ivy League school, and we both know my education had nothing to do with my ability to do this job.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational pedigree often functions as inherited class privilege disguised as individual achievement.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.