

The Privileged Poor
How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
Author: Anthony Abraham Jack
Narrator: Mirron Willis
Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/30/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Education, Social Science, Sociology, Schools
Synopsis
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 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. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages—advice we cannot afford to ignore.