The Pullias Center for Higher Education has been awarded a COVID-19 Rapid Response Small Grant from ECMC Foundation to support the ongoing Men of Color study. The funds, which ECMC Foundation has made available through a program for the organization’s existing grantees, have been generously provided to help students involved in men of color programs that are currently being studied […]
The Pullias Center is co-hosting a special webinar and discussion on Friday, May 1 at 10:30am-12:00pm PT/ 1:30pm-3:00pm ET. Featuring our own Julie Posselt and other panelists addressing recruitment and admissions challenges facing graduate education in light of COVID-19. The panelists will present research and institutional responses that, together, highlight paths for administrators and faculty toward equitable enrollment management. The […]
What are the hidden rules and practices that affect who gets respect and opportunities in higher education? How can we reconstruct these rules to encourage equity in the system? A new chapter in the Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research book series by Julie Posselt and a team at the Pullias Center takes a hard look at these fundamental […]
The Pullias Center’s Julie Posselt serves as a member of a very select panel that is tasked with no less than generating a comprehensive strategy and vision for the next decade of science in astronomy and astrophysics. The focus of the 15-person decadal survey committee, called the “Panel on State of the Profession and Societal Impacts,” entails putting a microscope […]
Letters of recommendation are used in admissions and hiring to glean information and qualities which may go unnoticed in the review of an applicant’s file. However, they are also one of the most common places that bias is written into applicant records– sometimes in subtle ways. The Pullias Center’s Julie Posselt, Steve Desir, and Román Liera are leading an effort […]
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has kindly gifted a $200,000 grant to the American Council on Education (ACE) in collaboration with The Pullias Center for Higher Education. The grant will fund Phase I of multi-year research, currently underway, aimed at developing practice-based insights relative to equity-minded leadership in higher education. Lorelle Espinosa, Vice President for Research at ACE, and Adrianna Kezar, Director […]
The TIAA Institute has awarded the Pullias Center for Higher Education a one-year $50,000 grant through the end of 2020 to study and document cases of institutions that have made significant changes in policies, programs, and practices to better support non-tenure track faculty (NTTF), which includes contingent and adjunct faculty. Adrianna Kezar, professor at the Rossier School of Education, director […]
The 42nd Pullias Lecture, which was originally set for Thursday, March 12, 2020, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 15, 2020. The decision to delay the event was made based on issues related to COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. While there have been no reported cases of COVID-19 at the university, USC has asked all students and instructors to […]
A first-of-its-kind study of skateboarding culture reveals that skateboarding improves mental health, fosters community, and encourages diversity and resilience. The study, conducted by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at USC’s Rossier School of Education and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, also showed that gender and race do matter within the skateboarding community. “Skateboarding is embedded in youth […]
When Tia Brown McNair, Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, Association of American Colleges and Universities and Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe, Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, deliver the 42nd Pullias Lecture at USC on September 15, 2020 (register now), the topic will be “Advancing Racial Equity through Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) […]