Elite colleges accept diverse and disadvantaged students more than ever before—but to Anthony Jack, access isn’t enough to ensure belonging. As the author of The Privileged Poor and the forthcoming Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, Anthony—once a low-income, first-generation college student himself—details how class divides on campus create barriers to academic and career success and shares what schools can do to truly level the playing field. Anthony is also the faculty director of Boston University’s Newbury Center, which serves first-generation students and focuses on student success and inclusion. Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, says that Anthony “exposes the deep-seated inequalities that plague higher education and our society, elevating the voices of the most vulnerable students and daring colleges not only to listen but to learn and transform.”

The event is presented with the Pine Manor Institute for Student Success.