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Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE in Minneapolis – November 15-18, 2023

Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE 2023 Thursday, November 2, 10:00 to 11:15am, Virtual Conference Day, Dakota Virtual Room The Complexity of Transformation: Opportunities and Tensions Session Submission Type: Paper Session (Virtual) When Data Doesn’t Do It: Developmental Education Reform in a Community College District Authors: Soumya Mishra, University of Southern California, Elif Asli Yucel, University of Southern California and Cheryl D. Ching, University of Massachusetts […]

How Leaders Can Implement Systemic Change: the Change Leadership Toolkit

September 6, 2023September 7, 2023 Pullias News Change Leadership Toolkit adrianna kezar equity and leadership

In her ‘provocation’ opinion article in the August/September issue of Change Magazine, Adrianna Kezar posits “Leadership development in higher education remains an under-examined and under-resourced area. Within the higher education sector, leadership has not been the focus of foundation funding for close to 30 years, since the Kellogg Foundation funded the institutional leadership project.” Dr. Kezar continues, “Studies of institutional transformation […]

USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education Announces 2023 Delphi Award Winners

August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 Awards, Changing faculty, Pullias News pullias news adrianna kezar delphi award delphi project equity

Loyola Marymount University and University of Arizona Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the 2023 Delphi Award. Loyola Marymount University in Los […]

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 […]

Emotional Labor in Shared Equity Leadership Environments: Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces

Darsella Vigil, Elizabeth Holcombe, Natsumi Ueda, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) In this research brief, part of the On Shared Equity Leadership series, we explore what emotional labor looks like in environments where responsibility for DEI leadership is broadly distributed and shared across multiple campus stakeholders, rather than siloed or isolated in a single person or office. […]

Change Leadership Toolkit: A Guide for Advancing Systemic Change in Higher Education

Susan Elrod, Adrianna Kezar, Ángel de Jesus González Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) Several years into a pandemic, a racial reckoning unfolding, enrollments fluctuating, and with strapped finances, leaders are in dire need of a guide that can help support them in leading systemic change. Successful systemic change in higher education involves multiple leaders at various levels across campus […]

2022 Delphi Award Winners Announced

September 14, 2022November 1, 2022 smacphee Changing faculty, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News adrianna kezar delphi award delphi project equity

Dominican University of California and Montgomery College in Maryland Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty. The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2022. Dominican […]

New Developments in Shared Equity Leadership

September 6, 2022September 8, 2022 smacphee Equity & Leadership, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News shared equity leadership adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe equity racial equity

New Reports and Webinars Explore Accountability, Roles in SEL and Capacity Building Over the past two years, Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Elizabeth Holcombe, former graduate student Jude Paul Dizon (now faculty at Rutgers University), along with grad students Jordan Harper and Natsumi Ueda, have been working on a next phase study of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL). […]

Putting a “FACE” on Faculty: Pullias Launches Ambitious National Study of Faculty

September 6, 2022October 12, 2022 smacphee Changing faculty, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News delphi adrianna kezar delphi project equity kc culver racial equity

Center Launches Much Needed New Study with $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant Who are higher education faculty in the U.S.? This may seem like a simplistic question, but the reality is that, on a national level, we don’t really know. It’s been nearly two decades since there has been nationally representative data collected about faculty, with the last National […]

USC’s Pullias Center Awarded $1.5 Million from the National Science Foundation to Develop and Test National Survey on Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments

June 10, 2022October 11, 2022 smacphee Awards, Changing faculty, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News, Pullias Voices, STEM reform pullias news adrianna kezar delphi project kc culver

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the Pullias Center for Higher Education $1.5 Million to develop and pilot a national survey that will provide a provide a contemporary understanding of postsecondary faculty in the United States. The grant, given by the NSF’s EHR Core Research program within their Human Resource Development division, will fund the Faculty, Academic Careers and […]