Elizabeth Holcombe, Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez and Russell Lowery-Hart (Amarillo College) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This case study documents the transformation of Amarillo College (AC) from an institution with low retention and completion rates to a community college that has been recognized nationally for its innovative approach to improving student success. In the midst of a budget crisis, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Andrew Lawson (California State University, Monterey Bay) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This undertaking to implement EO 1110 was the driving force behind the systemic change project led by Andrew Lawson, Dean of the College of Science at CSUMB. Because of CSUMB’s existing commitment to innovation to support student success for traditionally-disenfranchised […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Stephanie Salomone (University of Portland) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This Case Study describes how Stephanie Salmone, Department Chair of Mathematics and Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center at the University of Portland (UP), led a project called Redesigning Education For Learning through Evidence and Collaborative Teaching (REFLECT). The REFLECT […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Sue Rosser (San Francisco State University) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) Over a 3-year period starting in 2014, Sue Rosser, Provost at San Francisco State University, worked with women faculty in STEM to explore their experiences and determine their priorities for career advancement during their time with the university. Preliminary data from […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez and Elizabeth Holcombe Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) In 2016, as part of a three person team, Lisa Looney and Sean Bernard led the efforts to create a new teaching evaluation policy and a larger set of faculty-related policies within a new Faculty Handbook. As chair of the Faculty Policies Committee (Lisa) and Faculty Senate […]
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 […]
Elizabeth Holcombe, Jordan Harper, Natsumi Ueda, Adrianna Kezar, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Darsella Vigil Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This report, the fifth in the On Shared Equity Leadership series, explores ways to build capacity for the work of shared equity leadership (SEL) in higher education. SEL is a leadership approach that scales diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work […]