equity – Pullias Center

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

August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 morishernandez 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 […]

Postdoctoral Hiring & Equity Issues in STEM: Employment Trends, Policy, and Research

Jill Huynh, Kimberlee Shauman Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) Inequities in postdoctoral hiring reflect and contribute to inequities in the scientific labor force more broadly. Although their positions are usually temporary, postdoctorates comprise a substantial proportion of the STEM research workforce and conduct a large share of the work generating laboratory productivity. These researchers are a highly educated and […]

Doctoral Candidacy and Qualifying Exams: A Guide to Contexts, Costs for Equity, and Possibilities of Transformation

Julie Posselt, Román Liera Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) In this brief, we offer context about qualifying exams, raise awareness of how they can compromise equity and student wellbeing, and offer recommendations for structural and cultural change. We synthesize published research and findings from the IGEN Research Hub’s studies in this area, including survey data and case studies of […]

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

Julie Posselt, Kaylan Baxter, Whitney Tang Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This report introduces such evidence, toward enabling the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop the wisest investments in STEM graduate education. We present findings from a systematic review of 228 recently published research manuscripts and evaluation reports about efforts to advance diversity, equity, and/or inclusion by race, gender, […]

Racialized Gatekeeping Systems: Guidance for Navigation & Transformation

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This document distills takeaways and input of 200+ attendees of webinars held by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and the NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) in March 2023. In these events, panelists and participants discussed the newest NASEM report Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in […]

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 […]

Dwuana Bradley Joins Rossier/Pullias Center as Assistant Professor

September 8, 2022February 1, 2023 smacphee College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News, Pullias Voices Dwuana Bradley equity racial equity

The Pullias Center welcomes Dwuana Bradley to our faculty! Dr. Bradley brings more than 10 years of experience in qualitative research methodologies and is a former McNair Scholar. Her research examines the ways in which anti-Black sentiment perpetually undergirds the drivers and levers of federal, state, and institutional policies across the P-20 pipeline in ways that (un)intentionally reify the social […]

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 […]

Four Pullias Center Alumni Presented with Awards to Support Racial Equity-Related Research and Projects

August 8, 2022November 2, 2022 smacphee Equity & Diversity, Pullias News, Pullias Voices jarrett gupton alexander jun raquel rall Antar Tichavakunda equity racial equity

The Pullias Center for Higher Education asked the Center’s alumni to submit proposals for research projects that explore racial equity and inclusion in higher education, with $5,000 presented to each of the three winning proposals. For the second time, the Pullias Center for Higher Education’s Alumni Awards has again selected inspiring and innovative projects that focus on promoting deeper understandings […]