When:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Where:
Online
Webcast Link
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Julie Deardorff
(847) 467-3147
Group: School of Education and Social Policy
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. In his new book, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, Anthony Abraham Jack, exposes how woefully unprepared colleges were to support these students and shares their stories of how they were left to weather the storm alone and unprotected.
Jack will be in conversation with Jeff Selingo, New York Times bestselling author of three books on education and the job market. For more than twenty-five years, Selingo’s in-depth reporting and storytelling have provided practical insight about the future of higher education and the workforce to university leaders, corporate executives, as well as students and parents.