Walter Allen Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education Higher Education and Organizational Change 3101A-1 Moore Hall (310) 206 7107 allen@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

Postdoctoral Study, Psycho-Social Epidemiology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1979
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1975
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, 1973
B.A., Sociology, Beloit College (Wisconsin), 1971

Research Interests

Comparative race, ethnicity and inequality; diversity in higher education; and family studies

Teaching Interests

Current Issues in Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Theories of Race and Ethnicity; Race and Class in America; Urban Sociology; Inequality in Los Angeles; Social Organization of Black Communities; Social Structure and Personality; Socialization and Life Course; Social Science Perspectives on Health.

Recent Publications

Allen, Walter R., Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, and Robert Teranishi (eds.).Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and Excellence. Oxford, England: Elsevier Publishers, 2006.

Allen, Walter R., Uma M. Jayakumar, Kimberly A. Griffin, William S. Korn, and Sylvia Hurtado. Black Undergraduates from Bakke to Grutter: Freshmen Status, Trends and Prospects, 1971-2004. Los Angeles: UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, 2005.

Allen, Walter R., Margaret Beale Spencer, and Carla OConnor, eds. African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality and Achievement - A Tribute to Edgar G. Epps. London: JAI Press, Inc., 2002.

Allen, Walter R., Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, and Robert Teranishi."Stony the Road We Trod: The Black Struggle for Higher Education in California." Research report. CHOICES: Access, Equity and Diversity in Higher Education, University of California-Los Angeles, 2002.

Hurtado, Sylvia, Jeffrey Milem, Alma Clayton-Pedersen, and Walter R. Allen. Enacting Diverse Learning Environments: Improving the Climate for Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Volume 26, No. 8. Washington, DC: The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, 1999.

Allen, Walter R., Edgar G. Epps and Nesha Z. Haniff, eds. College in Black and White: African American Students in Predominantly White and Historically Black Public Universities. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.

Farley, Reynolds and Walter R. Allen. The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1987.

Allen, Walter R., Richard A. English and Jo Anne Hall. Black American Families, 1965-1984: A Classified, Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Links

CHOICES: Access, Equity and Diversity in Higher Education

UCLA 21st Century Project

UCLA Department of Sociology

UCLA Social Sciences Initiative