About me
Richard Arum is Professor of Sociology and Education and former dean of the School of Education at University of California, Irvine. He served as senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and director of Education Research Programs at the Social Science Research Council. He is coauthor of Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates and Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses; as well as coeditor of Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessment for the 21st Century, Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study, and (forthcoming) The Liberal Arts Advantage: Measuring the Deeper Value of College Education. He received a M.Ed. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the U.C., Berkeley.
