Case Western Reserve University - Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation / Think Forum

Case Western Reserve University

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• Date Friday, January 23, 2026
• Time 12:45PM - 2:00PM
• Location Tinkham Veale University Center - Kelvin and Elean 11038 Bellflower Rd Cleveland , OH 44106
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation 2026

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Registration is required to attend.

All tickets must be presented at check-in.

Location:

Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation Grand Ballroom

Tinkham Veale University Center

About the Speaker:

Anthony Abraham Jack began his education journey through the early childhood education program, Head Start, in Miami, Florida. He went on to receive degrees from Amherst College and Harvard University. He is the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education leadership at Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University.

His research explores the experiences of lower-income undergraduates and documents how, for them, access is not inclusion. His book, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students, was selected as an NPR Favorite Book of the Year. His most recent release, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality & Students Pay the Price is a revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excel. The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Huffington Post, American Conservative Magazine, The Washington Post, Vice, Vox, and NPR have featured his research and writing as well as biographical profiles of his experiences as a first-generation college student.

In May 2020, Muhlenberg College awarded him an honorary doctorate for his work in transforming higher education.