Adrianna Kezar, Pullias Center Director, shares her perspective on this pivotal election It’s November and hopefully you voted on or before Election Day and encouraged others to do so. The stakes for this current election could not have been higher, particularly as it relates to issues of racial justice and equity, but also xenophobia, global sustainability, health and safety of […]
Pullias Center staff, researchers, associates, and alumni met up virtually to reminisce about the organization’s first quarter century while considering what lies ahead. The event was originally planned as an in-person affair that, like so many things in 2020, had to be rethought in the shadow of the coronavirus. The resulting virtual gathering benefited from the digital nature of the […]
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 […]
The new study will seek to document, understand, and share ways young people who are often relegated to the margins of society are finding community and supporting each other in challenging times. Zoe Corwin, Associate Professor of Research and lead researcher on a recent groundbreaking study at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Rossier School of Education Pullias Center that […]
Carlos A. Galan, Academic Advisor at Yours in Soccer Foundation, PhD student in Higher Administration and Policy at UC Riverside, and a former colleague of the Pullias Center of Higher Education, reflects on the Center’s 25th Anniversary in this eight of a series of essays marking the occasion. It is not easy to put into words what the Pullias Center […]
A recent event for California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) created an opportunity for teams from six campuses to learn from each other how to change current admission policies and practices to address racial and gender inequalities in STEM PhD programs. C-CIDE, a National Science Foundation-funded network of doctoral-granting universities and member departments, aims to improve how graduate programs […]
Louisiana State University and Northcentral University detail the paths they took to improve working conditions and professional development for adjunct faculty on their campuses. Titled “Inclusive Faculty Development at Louisiana State University” and “Supporting Adjuncts from a Distance: Adjuncts as Subject Matter Experts & Values Members of the Northcentral University Community,” these new publications highlight the recent successful efforts these […]
Julie Posselt’s “Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education” reveals the subtle ways that exclusion and power operate in scientific organizations. “It is no revelation that culture change of some sort is needed in science, and so widespread is this awareness that more and more people want to be associated with contributing to positive […]
The following is a transcript of a speech delivered by Dr. John Slaughter, Pullias Center faculty member, at the 2020 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting on October 5, 2020. I wish to express my appreciation to President John Anderson and to Percy Pierre, Chair of the Racial Justice and Equity Committee, for inviting me to deliver the Special Lecture […]
There has been much discussion about the disparate impact COVID-19 has had on communities of color and other marginalized populations. This reaches into higher education where struggles for racial equity had already taken a toll before the pandemic arrived. In Dr. Gail Christopher’s plenary speech at the Association of American Colleges and Universities TRHT Institute earlier this summer, she describes […]