The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
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Getting in is only half the battle. The struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Anthony Jack reveals how—and why—admission to elite schools does not mean acceptance for disadvantaged students, and he explains what schools can do differently to help the privileged poor thrive.
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Underrepresented minority students are more likely than White or Asian-American students to be first in their immediate families to attend college and are less likely to have economic or social support at home.
“Underrepresented minority students are also more likely than White or Asian-American students to be the first in their immediate families to attend college and are less likely to have the economic or social support at home compared with later-generation college students (Jack, 2019).”
From A Meta-analysis of University STEM Summer Bridge Program Effectiveness (2021) · cites this paper as Jack, 2019
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Whalley, B., France, D., Park, J., Mauchline, A., & Welsh, K. (2021) · Higher Education Pedagogies · doi:10.1080/23752696.2021.1883458 · Cited by 134 · see citing works
A Meta-analysis of University STEM Summer Bridge Program Effectiveness
Bradford, B. C., Beier, M. E., & Oswald, F. L. (2021) · CBE—Life Sciences Education · doi:10.1187/cbe.20-03-0046 · Cited by 73 · see citing works
- Authors
- Jack, A. A.
- Corresponding author
- Jack, Anthony Abraham
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2019-04-22
- OpenAlex
- W4235440695
- Cited by
- 383
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 77 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 74 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 7
- FWCI
- 52.55
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Harvard University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Race Theory in Education
- Keywords
- disadvantaged students, elite universities, university admission, student persistence, academic performance, educational inequality
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