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Class Dismissed

Education and Learning

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Class Dismissed

When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the PriceBy Anthony Abraham JackNarrated by Anthony Abraham Jack

Class Dismissed

Length10h 21m

About this audiobook

This audiobook narrated by Anthony Abraham Jack reveals the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel 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. Class Dismissed 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. Drawing on the firsthand experiences of students from all walks of life at elite colleges, Anthony Abraham Jack reveals the out-of-sight and unequal worlds students navigated before and during the pandemic closures and upon their return to campus. He shows how COVID-19 exacerbated the very inequalities that universities ignored or failed to address long before campus closures. Jack examines how students dealt with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, how they navigated social unrest, and how they grappled with problems of race both on campus and off. A provocative and much-needed book, Class Dismissed paints an intimate and unflinchingly candid portrait of the challenges of undergraduate life for disadvantaged students even in the elite schools that invest millions to diversify their student body. Moreover, Jack offers guidance on how to make students' path to graduation less treacherous—guidance colleges would be wise to follow.

Audiobook details

GenreEducation and Learning

Length10 hrs 21 mins

Narrated byAnthony Abraham Jack

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateAug 13, 2024

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credit, Dedication

9Chapter 6 - Making Work Work

2Introduction - Unprecedented Classes in Unprecedented Times

10Part 3 - Fault Lines, Chapter 7 - But I See What You Do

3Part 1 - Family, Chapter 1 - And Away We Go

11Chapter 8 - Between Struggling and Surviving

4Chapter 2 - Beyond These Walls

12Chapter 9 - You Betta Recognize

5Chapter 3 - Help in Hard Times

13Conclusion - Bye, Bye Bubble

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6Part 2 - Finances, Chapter 4 - Pink Slips for Some

14Appendix

7Chapter 4 Continued

15Acknowledgements

8Chapter 5 - Free to Labor

16Closing Credits

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