{"id":1099,"date":"2025-10-07T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/education\/?page_id=1099"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:15:25","slug":"13th-annual-kurth-schai-education-and-advocacy-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/education\/13th-annual-kurth-schai-education-and-advocacy-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Annual Kurth-Schai Education & Advocacy Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price<\/span><\/h1>\n

Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, November 6, 4:45-6:00 PM<\/strong><\/h3>\n

John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center, Macalester College<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Please join us for the 13th Annual Kurth-Schai Education and Advocacy Lecture<\/strong> presented by the Educational Studies Department<\/span> and cosponsored by Institutional Equity, Student Affairs, President’s Office, Provost’s Office, Mahmoud El-Kati Lectureship in American Studies Fund, Program Board, and the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colleges and universities are accepting a wider range of students than ever before. But when racial unrest and a global health crisis gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out the needs of their new student body\u2014and disadvantaged students paid the price. In this talk, Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, author of The Privileged Poor<\/em> and Class Dismissed<\/em>, explores why colleges were so unprepared to support their most vulnerable students, and more importantly, how we can move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He draws on his rigorous reporting to give real-life examples of students, such as lower-income students whose valuable work experience is often overlooked on resumes. Using these stories, he challenges the myth of the \u201ccollege bubble,\u201d illustrating how lower-income students bring the inequalities of their neighborhoods right onto campus. His critical analysis offers a clear path to creating a fairer educational system. Through simple but strategic steps\u2014like revamping how we review resumes or offering learning opportunities outside of the classroom\u2014we can ensure a more equitable experience for disadvantaged students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Lecturer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack<\/strong> (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2016) is an award-winning scholar and author who has received national recognition for his work in transforming higher education. Once a low-income, first-generation college student himself, he details how class divides on campus create barriers to academic and career success, and shares what schools can do to truly<\/em> level the playing field. His research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates: the Doubly Disadvantaged\u00ad<\/em>\u2014those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools\u2014and the Privileged Poor\u00ad<\/em>\u2014those who do so from boarding, day, and preparatory high schools. His writings have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Teen Vogue, The National Review, The Washington Post, and NPR. Anthony is the faculty director of Boston University\u2019s Newbury Center, which serves first-generation students and focuses on student success and inclusion, and is also an Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership at Boston University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additional Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Books:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class Dismissed: When College Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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