Alumni Talk: UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander '78
UCLA Law School Professor Richard Sander '78 will discuss his recently released book, Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, followed by an optional group dinner
Thursday, December 13th @ 5:30pm
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.
Cost: There is no cost to attend the talk, but register online by December 7, 2012. The optional dinner following the talk will be held at the UCLA Faculty Center (Holiday Buffet menu) at the cost of $52 (members) and $57 (non-members). Spaces are limited. Register by December 7, 2012.
Post-Talk Dinner is sold out!
(please RSVP for the talk to the right)
Alumni Talk at UCLA Law School:
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.
Dinner at the UCLA Faculty Center:
480 Charles E. Young Drive
Parking: Parking permit can be purchased at the kiosk at the campus entrance near Westholme and Hilgard. Ask for directions to park in UCLA Campus Parking Lot 2 or Lot A. The Law School and Faculty Center are accessible from either parking lot (approximately $11)
About Professor Sander:
Richard Sander was born in Washington, D.C. and mostly grew up in rural Indiana. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1978, and then severed as a Vista Volunteer on the South Side of Chicago. After a few years working on a variety of neighborhood revitalization projects, Sander attended Northwestern University, where he earned a law degree and a doctorate in economics. In 1989, Sander received an appointment to the UCLA School of Law, where he became a tenured full professor in 1995.
During the 1990s, Sander worked primarily on issues related to fair housing, housing segregation, and economic inequality, and his research closely paralleled a variety of civic work. He served as president of the Fair Housing Congress of Southern California, and founded the Fair Housing Institute. He led a study of a proposed living wage ordinance in Los Angeles and helped to lay the factual and policy groundwork for the City’s subsequent adoption of what was, at the time, the nation’s most ambitious living wage law.
Sander became concerned about the effect of large racial preferences in the course of studying student outcomes at UCLA and devising improved strategies for academic support. In 2005, he published the first broad analysis of the operation and effects of racial preferences in legal education. Over the past several years, he has collaborated with over a dozen scholars on a variety of studies of preferences and higher education.
Sander is married to Fiona Harrison, an astrophysicist at CalTech and principal investigator of the NuStar satellite mission. His son, Robert, is an economist in Seattle, and his daughter, Joanna, just started kindergarten at Franklin Elementary School.