SSRC Staff

Richard Arum

Program Director,
Education Research Program

Bio

Richard Arum has been director of the Educational Research Program since July 2005, and is also professor of sociology and education at New York University. He received his doctorate in sociology in 1996 from the University of California, Berkeley. He recently led the creation of the Research Partnership for NYC Schools, which will facilitate rigorous data-driven research, analysis, and dissemination to improve public school performance. He is co-editor of a comparative study on expansion, differentiation and access to higher education in fifteen countries (Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study, Stanford University Press, 2007) and author of Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority (Harvard University Press, 2003), which analyzes variation in court decisions and how these judicial opinions have affected public school disciplinary practices across jurisdictions and over time.

Programs and Projects

CLA Longitudinal Study
Education Research Program
Improving Learning Environments

Publications

Book
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (January 2011), http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo10327226.html.
Report(s)
Richard Arum, Esther Cho, Jeannie Kim and Josipa Roksa, Documenting Uncertain Times: Post-graduate Transitions of the Academically Adrift Cohort (2012).
Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa and Esther Cho, Improving Undergraduate Learning: Findings and Policy Recommendations from the SSRC-CLA Longitudinal Project.

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