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New Shared Equity Leadership Report and Webinar Explore Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces for Campus Teams

June 7, 2023June 9, 2023 smacphee Shared Equity Leadership, Equity & Leadership, Academic governance & change, Equity & Diversity, Events, Pullias News pullias news shared equity leadership adrianna kezar

Pullias Center and American Council on Education (ACE) join together for latest in the Shared Equity Leadership series Shared Equity Leadership is a leadership approach that scales diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) work and creates culture change by connecting individual and organizational transformation. As leaders in higher education increasingly recognize the importance of prioritizing DEI on their campuses, so too […]

USC Pullias Center for Higher Education Hosts Special Video Screening, Dinner and Panel Discussion Highlighting Key Findings from the USC Skate Study

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 smacphee College access, Events, Pullias News pullias news events skateboarding zoe corwin

Annenberg School for Communications, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and USC Research and Innovation Co-host free USC dinner event on Friday, June 9 Researchers and scholars from four USC schools will come together to present key findings from “Mattering in the Margins” — a research study exploring connections among skateboarding, mental health and community — on Friday, June 9. […]

Pullias and PASS Team Hosts National Summit Focused on Postsecondary Success for At-Promise Students

May 10, 2023 smacphee College access, Pullias News pullias news PASS project zoe corwin

More than 60 thought-leaders, policy experts, foundation leaders, researchers and practitioners convened last week at the Pullias Center’s “National Summit on Transformative Efforts to Support the Postsecondary Success of At-promise Students.” The summit was organized and led by researchers from the Pullias Center’s Promoting At-Promise Student Success (PASS) project, and supported by a grant from the Susan T. Buffet Foundation. […]

Pullias Expands Change Leadership Toolkit Project with Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

May 8, 2023May 10, 2023 smacphee Equity & Leadership, Pullias News, Uncategorized pullias news equity and leadership

The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) is launching an expansion of the Change Leadership Toolkit, with a $250,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Change Leadership Toolkit (CLT) project, initially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a guide and resource library that helps support institutions in leading systemic […]

Developing and Supporting Students’ STEM Career Aspirations

May 8, 2023May 10, 2023 smacphee College access, Pullias News, STEM reform College Access & Success pullias news joseph kitchen stem

Inspiring the next generation of talent to pursue careers in STEM is a national policy objective, an economic imperative, and an opportunity for students to pursue fulfilling, well-paying careers that meaningfully help solve pressing issues affecting our communities. In support of these aims, Pullias’ Joseph Kitchen has partnered with colleagues at Harvard’s Science Education Department as part of a nationwide […]

An Ecological Approach to Career Development in College

May 8, 2023May 9, 2023 smacphee College access, Pullias News College Access & Success PASS project joseph kitchen

Higher education is costly — and it also requires a great deal of time and sacrifice for many students. College educators owe it to students to ensure that they are getting the support they need to make this investment well-worth it. More needs to be done to support students’ career development during the college years to fully realize the promise […]

PhD Candidate Maritza Salazar Receives Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

April 28, 2023April 28, 2023 smacphee Pullias News, Pullias Voices pullias news Pullias Voices

Please join us in congratulating Maritza E. Salazar, USC Rossier PhD candidate, for receiving the 2023-2024 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by the National Academies (NASEM). The goals of the Ford Foundation fellowships are to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase […]

Kitchen Promoted, Desir Joins Pullias Faculty

April 28, 2023May 3, 2023 smacphee Pullias News, Pullias Voices pullias news Pullias Voices joseph kitchen steve desir

Congratulations to Joseph (Joey) Kitchen, recently promoted to Associate Research Professor, and a hearty welcome to Steve Desir, who recently joined our faculty as Assistant Research Professor. Dr. Kitchen has served as a Co-Investigator for the Pullias Center’s Promoting At-promise Student Success (PASS) project since joining the Center’s faculty in 2021. He initially joined the Pullias team in 2015 as […]

Dr. John Brooks Slaughter Receives USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award

April 26, 2023May 1, 2023 smacphee Pullias News, Pullias Voices pullias news Pullias Voices

Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, University Professor Emeritus of Education and Computer Engineering, was recently presented with the prestigious USC Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award by USC President Carol L. Folt. Dr. Slaughter has had a remarkably distinguished and inspiring career, which began as an electrical engineer and includes leading two universities — University of Maryland as Chancellor and Occidental College as […]

2023 Pullias Doctoral Grads Look to Enact Change

April 26, 2023June 8, 2023 smacphee Pullias News, Pullias Voices pullias news Pullias Voices

This May, two Pullias Center doctoral candidates will graduate from the USC Rossier School of Education. We would like to offer our sincerest congratulations to both Jordan Harper and Kaylan Baxter as they continue their professional careers. Now, with doctoral degrees in hand, these new grads reflect on their time at the Center and share their future plans to enact […]