Join Harvard Griffin GSAS and Anthony Abraham Jack, AM ’11, PhD ’16, for a discussion on his recent book, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, which explores the deeply rooted systemic inequalities that harm students from disadvantaged backgrounds and how colleges can think critically about ways to support the students they bring to campus.
Anthony Abraham Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Boston University Newbury Center and an associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ET
This is a Zoom Webinar event. Please register in advance.
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Questions? Contact the Harvard Griffin GSAS Office of Alumni Relations.
Harvard University and the Graduate School Alumni Association encourage people with disabilities to participate in their programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about access for this event, please let us know in advance by emailing the Office of Alumni Relations.
Speaker Biography
Anthony Abraham Jack, AM ’11, PhD ’16
Anthony Abraham Jack received his BA in Women’s and Gender Studies and Religion cum laude from Amherst College and an AM and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He is the inaugural faculty director of the Boston University Newbury Center and associate professor of Higher Education Leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. 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. Jack held fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation fellow. The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him an emerging diversity scholar. In 2020, Muhlenberg College awarded him an honorary doctorate and the National Head Start Association named him a BOLD alumni leader for his work in transforming higher education.
The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Teen Vogue, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, American Conservative Magazine, The National Review, The Washington Post, Vice, Vox, and NPR have featured his research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student. His first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, was awarded the 2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, the 2019 CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship, and the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize and was also named a finalist for the 2019 C. Wright Mills Award and a NPR Book’s Best Book of 2019. His second book project, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, was published in August 2024 and received a star review from Kirkus Reviews.
Join Harvard Griffin GSAS and Anthony Abraham Jack, AM ’11, PhD ’16, for a discussion on his recent book, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, which explores the deeply rooted systemic inequalities that harm students from disadvantaged backgrounds and how colleges can think critically about ways to support the students they bring to campus.
Anthony Abraham Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Boston University Newbury Center and an associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ET
This is a Zoom Webinar event. Please register in advance.
Register Now
Questions? Contact the Harvard Griffin GSAS Office of Alumni Relations.
Harvard University and the Graduate School Alumni Association encourage people with disabilities to participate in their programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about access for this event, please let us know in advance by emailing the Office of Alumni Relations.
Speaker Biography
Anthony Abraham Jack, AM ’11, PhD ’16
Anthony Abraham Jack received his BA in Women’s and Gender Studies and Religion cum laude from Amherst College and an AM and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He is the inaugural faculty director of the Boston University Newbury Center and associate professor of Higher Education Leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. 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. Jack held fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation and was a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation fellow. The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him an emerging diversity scholar. In 2020, Muhlenberg College awarded him an honorary doctorate and the National Head Start Association named him a BOLD alumni leader for his work in transforming higher education.
The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Teen Vogue, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, American Conservative Magazine, The National Review, The Washington Post, Vice, Vox, and NPR have featured his research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student. His first book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, was awarded the 2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, the 2019 CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary Scholarship, and the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize and was also named a finalist for the 2019 C. Wright Mills Award and a NPR Book’s Best Book of 2019. His second book project, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, was published in August 2024 and received a star review from Kirkus Reviews.