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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 […]

What’s Next for Shared Equity Leadership?

September 6, 2023 morishernandez Pullias News shared equity leadership elizabeth holcombe

A Conversation with USC’s Elizabeth Holcombe Over the past three years, the Pullias Center and our partner, the American Council on Education (ACE), have been building an impressive library of work all detailing the concept of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL). Our first two reports, “Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work” and “Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: Four Approaches for Sharing […]

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). […]

SEL: Changing Campus Culture to Support DEI

December 9, 2021 smacphee Shared Equity Leadership, Equity & Leadership, Pullias News, Pullias Voices Equity & Leadership pullias news shared equity leadership elizabeth holcombe

Postdoctoral Researcher Elizabeth Holcombe and Adrianna Kezar Detail How Shared-Equity Leadership Leads to DEI Support While colleges and universities have worked to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over the last several decades, campuses are still struggling to make meaningful change to their cultures in ways that truly embed DEI in everything they do. The role of leadership in facilitating […]

Shared Equity Leadership: Grad Students Share the Impact

December 8, 2021December 9, 2021 smacphee Shared Equity Leadership, Equity & Leadership, Pullias News, Pullias Voices Equity & Leadership pullias news shared equity leadership elizabeth holcombe

Key Members of the Pullias Team Share Their Experiences with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Shared Equity Leadership Three grad students at USC’s Rossier School of Education are key members of the team working on the Pullias Center and ACE’s Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) project. Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Jordan Harper and Natsumi Ueda bring their own experiences with diversity to […]

Pullias Center Exploration of Shared Equity Leadership with ACE to Continue with Support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

April 20, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News shared equity leadership adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe equity and leadership racial equity

The American Council on Education (ACE), in collaboration with the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) is launching phase two of a multi-year research effort aimed at developing practice-based insights relative to Shared Equity Leadership in higher education. The continued work between the two organizations is being supported by a grant from the Arthur […]

New Paper Suggests Equity Leadership is Everyone’s Work

March 25, 2021April 20, 2021 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias News shared equity leadership adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe equity and leadership jude paul matias dizon racial equity

The work of improving equity outcomes of students of color is at its most effective when leadership teams across campus take collective responsibility in developing and moving the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda forward, according to a new research paper authored by the American Council for Education (ACE) and the Pullias Center for Higher Education. The paper, “Shared Equity Leadership: […]

New Research Papers Explore Integrated Programs Aimed at Supporting Underrepresented Student Success in STEM

October 15, 2019October 16, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Math equity, Pullias News, STEM reform adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe

Two new research papers from the Pullias Center for Higher Education uncover the role of collaboration and the importance of a unified community in successfully implementing integrated programs to support success in STEM. Integrated programs combine and align several interventions with the goal of countering the persistent underrepresentation of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented minority students among those who complete an […]

Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe in Inside Higher Ed: An Overlooked solution for diversifying STEM

January 14, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe stem

This op-ed by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar and research associate Elizabeth Holcombe was originally published in Inside Higher Ed on Jan. 14, 2019. For decades, researchers have tried to boost the very low success rates of first-generation, low-income and underserved minority students in STEM education in college. Yet while more students from these groups have been entering colleges and pursuing STEM majors, […]

New research: Digital college guidance, STEM support programs, women leaders in higher ed

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar digital equity elizabeth holcombe marissiko wheaton stem stem reform tattiya maruco zoe corwin

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle college access in the digital age, support programs for STEM students and challenges for women leaders in higher education. Read the abstracts and excerpts for these papers and find out more about the projects that inspired them: Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital […]