Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: Renewed Debate About GRE

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed  about the University of Pennsylvania philosophy program’s decision to drop its GRE requirement:

Julie R. Posselt, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Southern California, is the author of Inside Graduate Admissions. She has urged departments to carefully consider whether they need testing, and whether they are using tests appropriately. In an email to Inside Higher Ed, she said that the announcement from Penn’s philosophy department was significant.

“The announcement from philosophy Penn is distinctive from those I see from most graduate program making GRE policy changes,” Posselt said. “The decision was unanimous, they enthusiastically invite applications from underrepresented groups and — this is important — they commit not to looking at scores among those who send them. These three things — faculty buy-in, real recruitment, and a concrete plan for how applications will be reviewed without GRE scores — present a stronger foundation for increasing diversity than recommending, but not requiring, submission of test scores.”

Read the full article at Inside Higher Ed. Posselt is currently at work on a new book on academia to be published by Stanford University Press.