Tag: low-income students

  • Nation & World

    Rethinking inclusion

    An interview with Anthony Jack, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, on his new book “The Privileged Poor,” about the struggles of disadvantaged students at elite schools.

    8 minutes
    Anthony Jack portrait
  • Nation & World

    Teaching on campus and off

    Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy teaches a free American history course to low-income adult students as part of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, for which he now holds the first endowed chair.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    FAS Dean Smith looks ahead

    As it emerges from the worst of the global financial crisis, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is renewing its focus on priorities ranging from House Renewal to innovative pedagogy. With the release of the 2010 FAS annual report, Dean Michael D. Smith, John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spoke…

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Richardson Fellowships are awarded

    The Class of 2007 recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will help others in locations from Ghana to Los Angeles, aiding teenagers with sickle cell anemia and assisting low-income students to prepare for entry into top colleges.

    3 minutes