CSHPE 50th: The Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series: Academic Affairs and Student Development Lecture
Academic Affairs and Student Development Lecture
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Dr. Walter Allen is the Distinguished Scholar for the Academic Affairs and Student Development Lecture. Dr. Allen holds the Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is also Professor of Sociology at UCLA and an Affiliated Scholar with the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI). Dr. Allen is cited for distinguished achievement in “100 Years of Change,” Special Issue of Black Issues in Higher Education (1999).
Dr. Allen’s research interests include comparative race and ethnic relations, comparative family studies, and higher education desegregation. He is currently the Co-Director of CHOICES, a longitudinal study of college access and attendance among African Americans and Latinos in California. Throughout his career, Dr. Allen has authored over 80 publications, and most recently served as a co-editor for a volume titled Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and Excellence. Dr. Allen is no stranger to Ann Arbor, as he served as Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan before accepting a position at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Allen has held teaching appointments at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Howard University, Duke University, University of Zimbabwe and Wayne State University.
