Community Book Read & Fireside Chat with Anthony Abraham Jack
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Prechter Lab
Join the Educational Studies Program for a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack as he shares reflections from his book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. We invite all Marsal School community members to read the book and join us in conversation on Monday, November 27, 2023.
About the Book
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how—and why—disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Abraham Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Dr. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages—advice we cannot afford to ignore.
About the Author
Anthony Abraham Jack received his BA in Women’s and Gxender Studies and Religion cum laude from Amherst College and an AM and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. Inaugural Faculty Director of the Newbury Center and Associate Professor at Boston University. His scholarship appears in the Common Reader, Du Bois Review, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, and Sociology of Education and has earned awards from the American Educational Studies Association, American Sociological Association, Association for the Study of Higher Education, Eastern Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him an Emerging Diversity Scholar.
Co-Moderated By
Andrea Marquez, Educational Studies MA Student
Carina Wilson, Educational Studies MA Student
Jacob Aguinaga, Educational Studies PhD Student
Please RSVP for the Fireside Chat by November 22.