In 2018, USC Associate Professor Julie Posselt saw a pressing need for a scalable, sustainable system for faculty to learn about basic issues of inequality and justice in graduate education. Posselt believed this type of system was necessary for advancing racial equity and diversity, and could serve as a catalyst for systemic and cultural change in doctoral education. Soon, the California […]
The Pullias Center is co-hosting a special webinar and discussion on Friday, May 1 at 10:30am-12:00pm PT/ 1:30pm-3:00pm ET. Featuring our own Julie Posselt and other panelists addressing recruitment and admissions challenges facing graduate education in light of COVID-19. The panelists will present research and institutional responses that, together, highlight paths for administrators and faculty toward equitable enrollment management. The […]
What are the hidden rules and practices that affect who gets respect and opportunities in higher education? How can we reconstruct these rules to encourage equity in the system? A new chapter in the Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research book series by Julie Posselt and a team at the Pullias Center takes a hard look at these fundamental […]
The Pullias Center’s Julie Posselt serves as a member of a very select panel that is tasked with no less than generating a comprehensive strategy and vision for the next decade of science in astronomy and astrophysics. The focus of the 15-person decadal survey committee, called the “Panel on State of the Profession and Societal Impacts,” entails putting a microscope […]
Letters of recommendation are used in admissions and hiring to glean information and qualities which may go unnoticed in the review of an applicant’s file. However, they are also one of the most common places that bias is written into applicant records– sometimes in subtle ways. The Pullias Center’s Julie Posselt, Steve Desir, and Román Liera are leading an effort […]
Change comes slowly in higher education, or so the best theory and evidence say. Yet there are exceptions to every rule, and exogenous shocks such as protests, wars, natural disasters and, as we are now seeing, a global pandemic can compel decisive, transformational changes that colleges, universities, and their members would otherwise resist. Will disruptions and uncertainties of COVID-19 catalyze […]
The California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) is holding a series of workshops with the aim of improving how doctoral programs select and serve the next generation of scientists and engineers. C-CIDE is a network of faculty and administrators across UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, UC-Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. It is dedicated to creating a sustainable system […]
Pullias Center research assistant Theresa E. Hernandez was one of two graduate students from USC to meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to advocate for graduate education last month. Hernandez, along with USC Price PhD candidate Andrew Eisenlohr and USC Vice Provost Sally Pratt, joined about 40 other deans and graduate students to participate in the Council of Graduate Schools’ […]
Congratulations to Pullias Center faculty member Julie Posselt, who recently received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of education, with a focus on higher education! Posselt is a national expert on graduate admissions and the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Rooted in sociological and organizational theory, her research program examines institutionalized inequalities […]