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First Gen Fireside Chat with Dr. Anthony Jack
October 29, 2020 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
A kick-off event for UF’s First-Generation Student Celebration, join Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, who will discuss the challenges faced by first-generation college students at predominantly white universities, on October 29. According to Dr. Jack, higher education does a great job recruiting first-generation students, but most fail to provide the institutional resources to ensure their success. Many first-generation students are not aware of the significance of office hours and participating in extracurricular events. At the end of the presentation, Dr. Jack will provide strategies on how to improve first-generation students’ experiences.
Anthony Abraham Jack is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds the Shutzer Assistant Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, which was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award and named a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, American Conservative Magazine, and NPR have featured his research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student.
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