"I remember first hearing this term 'digital divide' in the mid-1990s. It was the concept of people from lower socioeconomic status not having access to computers and the Internet," says Tabbetha Dobbins, the Interim Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School at Rowan University in New Jersey, in an interview with MRS Bulletin. "It has always been talked about in a scope of, well, there will be jobs available to people who have these computer skills; and people who don't, won't be seeing those jobs."

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COVID-19大流行为美国研究型大学的未来发展指明了方向。

“我记得是在1990年代中期首次听到的'数字鸿沟'这个词。这是社会经济地位较低的人们无法使用计算机和Internet的概念，”研究部临时副总裁兼教务长Tabbetha Dobbins说。新泽西州罗文大学研究生院接受MRS简报采访。“一直以来，人们都在谈论那些拥有这些计算机技能的人可以找到的工作；而没有的人则不会看到那些工作。”