The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students

"Navigating college is hard for many young people, and for low-income students or kids whose parents didn’t go to college, it can be even trickier. Anthony Abraham Jack talked with low-income students at an unnamed elite college and found that making college more inclusive requires creative and thoughtful solutions, such as keeping dining halls and dorms open during holiday breaks – because not every student can afford a ski trip, or even a bus ticket home. So many professors have told me this book made them rethink their own classrooms."