Walter R. Allen is an American sociologist who is a Distinguished Professor and the Allan Murray Carter Chair in Higher Education at University of California, Los Angeles.
His research considers social inequality, diversity in higher education and family patterns.
[1] He was an undergraduate student at Beloit College, and he moved to the University of Chicago for doctoral research.
[1] His doctoral research investigated how race, sex and socioeconomic status impact adolescents in Southern schools.
The program provides students at historically black colleges and universities an opportunity to perform summer research projects at UCLA.