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New Report Addresses Challenges Faced by Black Students Related to Technology and College Access

The report calls out a need for renewed attention to developing digital literacy in a way that directly addresses the relationship between digital literacy and college knowledge Technology and College Access: Understanding the Unique Challenges and Opportunities Black Students Face is the first report generated from research funded by the one of five inaugural Pullas Center Equity Alumni Awards created […]

Technology and College Access: Understanding the Unique Challenges and Opportunities Black Students Face

Sharla Berry Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) The author makes a case that educators might leverage Black students’ significant use of and innovation with technology to expand opportunities to cultivate college knowledge and expand college access. The brief highlights the relationship between technology and college knowledge, explores the barriers that Black youth may encounter in using technology to research […]

New Paper Suggests Equity Leadership is Everyone’s Work

March 25, 2021April 20, 2021 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias News shared equity leadership adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe equity and leadership jude paul matias dizon racial equity

The work of improving equity outcomes of students of color is at its most effective when leadership teams across campus take collective responsibility in developing and moving the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda forward, according to a new research paper authored by the American Council for Education (ACE) and the Pullias Center for Higher Education. The paper, “Shared Equity Leadership: […]

New Guide Introduces Student Affairs Administrators to Leadership Framework Rooted in Liberation and Equity

March 19, 2021March 23, 2021 marissaaivazis Pullias News adrianna kezar equity and leadership jordan harper leadership racial equity

“Leadership for Liberation: A Leadership Framework and Guide for Student Affairs Professionals” from the Pullias Center and NASPA focuses on developing education leaders in social change A new publication from the Pullias Center in partnership with NASPA has been created to help student affairs professionals prepare students to grapple with complex, interconnected systems of oppression and domination that prevent the […]

Leadership for Liberation: A Leadership Framework & Guide for Student Affairs Professionals

Jordan Harper and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This guide articulates a need for a new model of leadership – leadership for liberation. The provocative thesis argues for a bold and forward-thinking leadership that focuses on the systems, structures, and cultural norms that are the heart of our most challenging societal problems. Categories: College Access, Racial Equity, […]

Using Design for Equity in Higher Education for Liberatory Change: A Guide for Practice

KC Culver, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This toolkit helps design teams engage in this process of implementing the Design for Equity in Higher Education model, For each phase of the model, this toolkit provides a short description and offers some questions and suggestions to guide practice. Categories: Delphi Project, Racial Equity, Guides

New Pullias Center Report Adapts Liberatory Design Thinking Model for Higher Education Challenges

January 21, 2021March 25, 2021 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias News design thinking adrianna kezar delphi project jordan harper kc culver racial equity

New research and a publication supported by funding from the TIAA Institute and the National Science Foundation as part of The Delphi Project puts equity front and center with a new model that considers the unique challenges in design thinking related to policy making in higher education. The publication, Design for Equity in Higher Education, introduces the Design for Equity […]

Design for Equity in Higher Education

KC Culver, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) A customized guide about liberatory design thinking processes that have been tested within college settings to support changes that enhance equity in policies and practices within institutions. This research is based on case studies of several institutions, including focus group interviews with the campus design teams and […]

New Issue of ‘Higher Ed Conversations in Black’ Reimagines What’s Next for Higher Ed in the United States

December 2, 2020 Pullias News HECIB racial equity

‘Higher Ed Conversations in Black’ has returned with its second edition titled “Reimagining What’s Next For the U.S. and Higher Education.” This edition is framed by Aireale Joi Rodgers and features contributors Darnell Cole, Eddie Cole, Felecia Commodore, Freeman Hrabowski, III, Wendy Osefo, and Antar Tichavakunda. “My phone buzzed with messages from loved ones, exclaiming that ‘We did it!’ [as […]

Pullias Center Presents Five Alumni with Awards to Support Racial Equity-Related Research

November 11, 2020November 2, 2022 pulliasadmin Awards, Pullias News cecile sam sharla berry raquel rall james dean ward racial equity

The Pullias Center asked the organization’s alumni to submit proposals for research projects that explore racial equity and inclusion in higher education and presented $5,000 awards to support five of these projects. The five winning projects were selected through a blind review conducted by Pullias Center faculty along with Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center. The winners were first […]