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Become a Facilitator of Holistic Review Workshops

August 8, 2019October 24, 2019 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Events, Pullias News graduate admissions holistic review julie posselt

Oct 25-27/2019/Orlando, Fl University of Central Florida Campus REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED The Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) and California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) will co-sponsor a 2.5 day workshop to prepare higher education change agents as facilitators of interactive workshops on holistic graduate admissions. Applications are open immediately. Travel funding is available but limited. Why attend? Workshops [...]

A New vision for the Pullias Center

April 25, 2019March 20, 2020 pulliasadmin Pullias News adrian huerta adrianna kezar julie posselt tatiana melguizo william tierney zoe corwin

Big changes are happening at the Pullias Center in 2019. Currently co-directed by William G. Tierney, University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and Adrianna Kezar, Dean’s Professor of Higher Education, the Pullias Center will enter a new phase on June 30, 2019 when Tierney steps down as co-director, before retiring on December 31, 2019. At that time, Kezar will step [...]

Julie Posselt receives tenure and promotion to associate professor

April 5, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias News graduate admissions julie posselt

Congratulations to Pullias Center faculty member Julie Posselt, who recently received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of education, with a focus on higher education! Posselt is a national expert on graduate admissions and the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Rooted in sociological and organizational theory, her research program examines institutionalized inequalities […]

Julie Posselt on WORT 89.9: The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was interviewed about the many legal strategies used by the wealthy to tilt college admissions decisions in their favor by WORT 89.9, a listener-sponsored community radio station in Madison, Wisc. The segment, titled “The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions,” comes on the heels of the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal at USC and other colleges and universities. Listen to the […]

Julie Posselt in The Conversation: Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions

March 15, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices julie posselt

This op-ed — authored by Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt, along with fellow USC Rossier professors Morgan Polikoff and Jerome A. Lucido — was originally published in The Conversation on March 15, 2019. * The most damaging myth in American higher education is that college admissions is about merit, and that merit is about striving for – and earning – academic […]

Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: The Admissions scandal and a service for PhDs

March 15, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about Versatile Ph.D., a popular career platform owned by the foundation behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal: Julie Posselt, associate professor of education at the University of Southern California — which is among the institutions targeted in the admissions fraud case — wrote an eye-opening 2016 book about the graduate admissions process. (Posselt also […]

Julie Posselt in Nature: Astronomy society pushes for diversity in US PhD programs

February 21, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices, STEM reform julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Nature about the American Astronomical Society’s push to recruit and retain more students from under-represented groups in PhD programs. The society, which represents 8,000 astronomers across 57 nations, offers recommendations in the final report of a task force on diversity and inclusion in astronomy graduate education…. The proposals … include input from experts in STEM graduate education. […]

New research: Lessons from the Jerry Sandusky case, limits of PhD admissions criteria, and more

February 8, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrian huerta julie posselt michael lanford tattiya maruco william tierney

Congratulations to Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney and research associate Raquel M. Rall! Their co-authored article, “Lessons Not Yet Learned: Culture, Governance, and the Jerry Sandusky Case,” received the 2019 Neuner Award from the American Association of University Administrators for the outstanding article in The Journal of Higher Education Management. Other recent works by Pullias researchers tackle a wide range of […]

Julie Posselt and Darnell Cole in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Lawyers on Race-Conscious Admissions

February 1, 2019March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices darnell cole julie posselt

Two Pullias Center faculty members were featured in a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities. Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the USC Rossier School of Education, and Darnell Cole, an associate professor of education at USC Rossier, both spoke at the University of Southern California’s Admissions, Race and Identity conference. […]

New research: Changing academic culture, from diversity work to STEM reform

January 3, 2019January 23, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar joseph kitchen julie posselt roman liera stem stem reform william tierney

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle big topics in higher education, such as promoting racial diversity and performing diversity work on college and university campuses, addressing the influence of corporate culture on academic culture, and adapting to changing faculty trends. In addition, new papers tackle STEM education, from summer bridge programs to large-scale reform. Read the abstracts and excerpts for […]