equity and leadership – Page 2

Leading for Equity from Where You Are: How Leaders in Different Roles Engage in Shared Equity Leadership

Elizabeth Holcombe, Adrianna Kezar, Jordan Harper, Darsella Vigil, Natsumi Ueda, Jude Paul Matias Dizon Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) In this report, the fourth in the On Shared Equity Leadership series, we describe the ways that leaders in different campus roles contribute to shared equity leadership (SEL) efforts. SEL is a leadership approach that scales diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work and creates culture […]

Shared Responsibility Means Shared Accountability: Rethinking Accountability Within Shared Equity Leadership

Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Darsella Vigil Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) In this report, the third in the On Shared Equity Leadership series, we describe the ways that campuses implementing SEL are grappling with accountability in environments where responsibility for DEI work is broadly distributed. What does it mean when more people are in charge of accomplishing DEI goals? How […]

Shared Equity Leadership Toolkit

Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Darsella Vigil Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) This toolkit accompanies the report Shared Equity Leadership Making Equity Everybody’s Work, and enables leaders to reflect on their personal journey toward a critical consciousness. Through the SEL Toolkit, leaders can identify their own strengths and potential areas for growth in the values and practices that are necessary […]

Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: Four Approaches to Structuring the Work

Elizabeth Holcombe, Adrianna Kezar, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Darsella Vigil, Natsumi Ueda Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) In this report, the second in the On Shared Equity Leadership series, we highlight four distinct ways to structure Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) that we observed from our participating institutions. We lay the groundwork for understanding these structures by first describing some of […]

Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work

Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Darsella Vigil, and Jude Paul Mathias Dizon Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) In this publication, the first in the “On Shared Equity Leadership” series, we describe how broadly inclusive and collaborative approaches to leadership are necessary to achieve equitable outcomes. We term this approach shared equity leadership (SEL), in which equity becomes everyone’s responsibility and […]

Promoting Graduate Student Wellbeing: Cultural, Organizational, and Environmental Factors in the Academy

Dr. Julie R. Posselt Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) The purpose of this essay is to synthesize current knowledge about cultural, organizational, and environmental factors in higher education which are known to support or inhibit the wellbeing of graduate students. Given that students’ intellectual growth as graduate students is situated within a multi-dimensional developmental process, I pay special attention […]

Assessing The Landscape For Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in U.S. STEM Graduate Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Dr. Julie Posselt, Kaylan Baxter, and Whitney Tang Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) More resources are being poured every year into efforts to broaden participation in STEM, and foundations and other resource providers need up-to-date evidence about what works in shaping individual and organizational outcomes. This report introduces such evidence, toward enabling the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop […]

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

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 Guide Introduces Student Affairs Administrators to Leadership Framework Rooted in Liberation and Equity

March 19, 2021March 23, 2021 Pullias News adrianna kezar equity and leadership jordan harper leadership racial equity

“Leadership for Liberation: A Leadership Framework and Guide for Student Affairs Professionals” from the Pullias Center and NASPA focuses on developing education leaders in social change A new publication from the Pullias Center in partnership with NASPA has been created to help student affairs professionals prepare students to grapple with complex, interconnected systems of oppression and domination that prevent the […]