1 | Tony Jack

An episode of the Amherst at 200: Celebrating Mind, Heart, and Community podcast, hosted by Amherst College, titled "1 | Tony Jack" was published on November 12, 2021 and runs 29 minutes.

November 12, 2021 ·29m · Amherst at 200: Celebrating Mind, Heart, and Community

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Sociologist Anthony Abraham “Tony” Jack ’07 is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. In this episode, he describes his own experience as a first-generation, low-income student at Amherst—and how he made it all the way to the front page of The New York Times and on to a Ph.D. and professorship at Harvard. Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstTonyJackTranscript To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Sociologist Anthony Abraham “Tony” Jack ’07 is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. In this episode, he describes his own experience as a first-generation, low-income student at Amherst—and how he made it all the way to the front page of The New York Times and on to a Ph.D. and professorship at Harvard. Transcript: https://bit.ly/AmherstTonyJackTranscript To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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