{"id":12374,"date":"2024-09-25T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?p=12374"},"modified":"2024-09-25T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:54:16","slug":"12374","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2024\/09\/25\/12374\/","title":{"rendered":"CISS Affiliate Anthony Jack Says Colleges Do Not Offer Sufficient Social Supports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede-636x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede-636x425.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2024\/09\/tony-jack-lede.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>As an Amherst College freshman in the early 2000s,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/anthony-abraham-jack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthony Abraham Jack<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>had to deal with a problem that never blips affluent students\u2019 radars: the closing of the dining hall during spring break. Coming from a low-income Miami family, Jack couldn\u2019t afford the plane fare home and was staying on campus. How would he eat? He lucked out, getting a job at the college\u2019s gym to earn money for meals\u2014and for his mother, who asked him for whatever he could spare to help pay bills back home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Amherst had opened its doors to welcome poor students like me, they forgot to keep the doors open for those of us who couldn\u2019t afford to leave,\u201d Jack writes in his new book<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691237466\/class-dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Class Dismissed<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(Princeton University Press).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>To read more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/is-higher-education-ignoring-inequality-and-failing-disadvantaged-students\/?utm_campaign=the_brink&amp;utm_source=email_20240925_full_b&amp;utm_medium=2_must_read_1&amp;utm_content=research_education\">THE BRINK<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span>where this article<\/span><span>\u00a0originally appeared on September 23, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an Amherst College freshman in the early 2000s,\u00a0Anthony Abraham Jack\u00a0had to deal with a problem that never blips affluent students\u2019 radars: the closing of the dining hall during spring break. Coming from a low-income Miami family, Jack couldn\u2019t afford the plane fare home and was staying on campus. How would he eat? He lucked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12378,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12374\/revisions\/12378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}