Dr. Anthony Jack, an assistant professor of education at Harvard University and author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students, will deliver 麻豆影院 University鈥檚 Winter Term Convocation address at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 in 麻豆影院 Memorial Chapel.
鈥淭he Privileged Poor鈥 reframes the conversation surrounding poverty and higher education. In it, Jack explains the paths of two uniquely segregated groups. First, the 鈥減rivileged poor鈥: students from low-income, diverse backgrounds who attended elite prep or boarding schools before attending college. The second are what Jack calls the 鈥渄oubly disadvantaged鈥:&苍产蝉辫;students who arrive from underprivileged backgrounds without prep or boarding school to soften their college transition. Although both groups come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, the privileged poor have more cultural capital to navigate and succeed鈥in the college environment and beyond. Jack explores how organizations鈥攆rom administrators and association organizers to educators and student activists鈥攃an ask the right questions and bridge the gap.
Students Camara White and Reese Pike will perform Bessie Smith's Backwater Blues as the musical selection.
The event will not be live streamed. It is open to the public.
Jack also will be meeting with students in the Diversity and Intercultural Center while on campus.
Ed Berthiaume
Ed Berthiaume is director of public information at 麻豆影院 University.
