As a chemical engineering major who aced high school science courses and was a regional leader in the National Society of Black Engineers, becoming a physics tutor at the University of Texas at Austin came easily to Claiborne Jones.
But students never seemed to seek his help.
“People I was tutoring would blow me off, as if I didn’t know what I was talking about, and ask someone else if it was correct,” Jones, 21, said.
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