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The Alliance for Multi-campus Inclusive Graduate Admissions (AMIGA) is a project that aims to encourage adoption of equitable and inclusive admissions practices in humanities PhD programs at two University of California campuses.Background and Goals
The Alliance for Multi-campus Inclusive Graduate Admissions (AMIGA) is a Mellon Foundation-funded project that aims to encourage adoption of equitable and inclusive admissions practices in humanities PhD programs at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of California, Davis (UC Davis).
This 4.5-year project will develop holistic review methods for graduate admissions. Holistic review is a method of evaluating applicants on a wide range of attributes and skills, instead of relying solely on numbers-based academic measures such as GRE scores, which often have the effect of weeding out women and members of underrepresented minority groups.
The AMIGA project will collaborate with 16 graduate programs at UC Davis and UCLA, with the goal to increase diversity at the graduate level within—and beyond—the UC system. The project team will design and deliver faculty development modules on inclusive admissions and initiate faculty-to-faculty training, as well as host two forums to disseminate inclusive graduate education scholarship and practices.
Serving as the project’s advisor and assessment lead is associate professor Julie Posselt, researcher at USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and nationally-recognized expert on graduate admissions. Posselt’s role will be to coordinate two project forums as well as to collect and analyze data to track progress toward establishing sustainable, scalable systems for holistic graduate admissions.
Posselt’s collaborators include two researchers from UC Davis—principal investigator Prasant Mohapatra and co-principal investigator Josephine Moreno—and two from UCLA, Robin Garrell and Norma Mendoza-Denton, both co-principal investigators.
Funder
This project is funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which endeavors to strengthen, promote and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.
Pullias Research Team
Julie Posselt
Associate Professor of Education
Past Team Members
Aireale Rodgers
Research Assistant
Theresa E. Hernandez
Research Assistant
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