Richard Arum

Richard Arum
Born1963 (age 62–63)
New York, New York
OccupationSociologist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materTufts University
Harvard University
University of California, Berkeley
Website
www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=6235

Richard Arum (born 1963) is an American sociologist of education and stratification, best known for his research on student learning, school discipline, race, and inequality in K-12 and higher education.

Arum has a B.A. in political science from Tufts University, an M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

He was the second dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Education, as well as a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.