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Julie Posselt’s Cal-Bridge project featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education

November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices graduate admissions graduate education

The Cal-Bridge program, a National Science Foundation-project on which Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt serves as co-principal investigator, was featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is well into her Ph.D. program in physics at the University of California Irvine, and she gives credit to participation in a bridge program that helps underrepresented minority students earn doctoral degrees […]

New research: Supporting marginalized students, from gang-affiliated youth to first-gen PhD candidates

September 28, 2018October 29, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Equity & Diversity, Math equity adrian huerta graduate admissions graduate education julie posselt math pathways stem stem reform tatiana melguizo

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle complex issues in education, from engaging gang-associated youth in schools by valuing the knowledge and skills they already possess to effectively mentoring PhD students from historically excluded and marginalized groups. In addition, a new working paper explores how students from racial minority groups are more likely to be placed in developmental math courses due […]

Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: Renewed Debate About GRE

September 17, 2018October 4, 2018 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices graduate admissions graduate education julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about the University of Pennsylvania philosophy program’s decision to drop its GRE requirement: Julie R. Posselt, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Southern California, is the author of Inside Graduate Admissions. She has urged departments to carefully consider whether they need testing, and whether they are using tests appropriately. […]

Network forms to bolster equity in STEM graduate education

September 7, 2018September 7, 2018 pulliasadmin Awards, Equity & Diversity, STEM reform graduate admissions graduate education julie posselt stem

The initiative brings together USC Rossier and more than two dozen professional and academic organizations By Ross Brenneman Research shows that participation by underrepresented groups in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines plummets between undergraduate and graduate studies. A new project looks to take a comprehensive approach to addressing issues that hinder the participation and success of underrepresented students. […]

To improve equity in STEM, new project aims to create a community of changemakers

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 pulliasadmin Awards, College access, Equity & Diversity, Projects, STEM reform graduate admissions graduate education julie posselt

A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable faculty and administrators to bring holistic graduate admissions practices to six California universities. Read a few graduate school mission statements, and you’ll find the words “equity” and “diversity” pop up a lot. In fact, for many universities, equity and diversity have been explicit institutional goals for decades. Yet many graduate education […]

In grad school admissions, whom you know still matters a lot

June 27, 2018August 6, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Equity & Diversity graduate admissions julie posselt

A study finds graduate admissions committees favor students linked to well-known schools and scholars. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF How can you get into a top graduate school program? Good grades and GRE scores help, but the prestige of your recommenders or undergraduate institution might end up being the ultimate clincher. So finds Julie Posselt, a Pullias Center researcher and assistant […]

Julie Posselt’s book ‘Inside Graduate Admissions’ reviewed in Contexts

June 15, 2018March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices graduate admissions julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt received yet another rave review for her book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Admissions, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Just published in the Spring 2018 issue of Contexts, a quarterly magazine of cutting-edge social research, the review by Northwestern University’s Lauren A. Rivera calls Inside Graduate Admissions “an enthralling read”: Inside Graduate Admissions is […]

Theresa E. Hernandez in The Huffington Post: Abolish standardized testing for college admissions

May 23, 2018June 21, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices graduate admissions theresa e hernandez

This op-ed, authored by Theresa E. Hernandez, a research assistant at the Pullias Center, was originally published in The Huffington Post on May 22, 2018. A new study from the National Association for College Admission Counseling provides evidence that test-optional policies ― a variety of policies that allow students not to submit scores on standardized tests like the SAT or GRE […]

Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: Graduate programs need to rethink use of standardized admissions tests

May 7, 2018March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices graduate admissions julie posselt

This op-ed — authored by Julie Posselt, Pullias Center researcher and assistant professor of higher education at University of Southern California, and Casey W. Miller, associate dean for research and faculty affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology — was originally published in Inside Higher Ed on May 7, 2018. This week several admissions experts, through the National Association for College Admission […]

Posselt’s team awarded $1.2M grant to increase equity in grad admissions

February 20, 2018March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Equity & Diversity amiga graduate admissions julie posselt

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1,195,000 grant for a project to increase equity in graduate admissions to a team of researchers from USC, UC Davis, and UCLA. Serving as the project’s advisor and assessment lead is Assistant Professor Julie Posselt, researcher at USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and nationally-recognized expert on graduate admissions. Called Alliance […]