Alumni Talk: UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander '78
UCLA Law School Professor Richard Sander '78 will discuss his recently released book and join us for dinner following the discussion
Thursday, December 13th @ 6:00pm
Location: UCLA Law School, Room 1314
UCLA Law School Professor Richard Sander '78 will discuss his recently released book (co-authored with Stuart Taylor, Jr., a legal journalist) Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It. Professor Sander's empirical research concludes that racial admissions preferences for minority students lead to “mismatch” between students and universities whereby students admitted based on racial preferences with grade and test scores lower than the mean at the school are less likely to perform as well academically than had they attended less selective/elite schools and that the present system is not serving those students well. Professor Sander filed a "friend-of-the-court" brief in one of the highest profile cases before the United States Supreme Court this term, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which is a challenge to a public university's use of race in affirmative action practices in undergraduate admissions decisions and was argued on October 10, 2012.
Professor Sander has spent his career studying social and economic inequality in housing, the job market, and university admissions policies. After Harvard, Professor Sander attended graduate school at Northwestern University from 1983 to 1988, earning degrees in law (J.D., 1988) and economics (Ph.D., 1990).
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Discussion (No charge, RSVP required):
UCLA Law School is nearest to the Wyton Drive entrance off of Hilgard Avenue in the northeast area of UCLA's campus.
385 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095. RSVP to the right.
Dinner at the UCLA Faculty Center:
480 Charles E. Young Drive
$40 for current Club members;
$45 for guests
(limited to ____ persons)
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Parking: UCLA Campus Parking Lot "A" (approximately $11)
Contact: For more information, please contact Steven Arkow, stevenarkow@sbcglobal.net