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The Future of University Admissions after the Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action — Wednesday, October 25, 2023

October 4, 2023October 4, 2023 morishernandez Equity in Graduate Education, Events, Pullias News events julie posselt

How can leaders in undergraduate, graduate, and professional admissions use this moment to create more equitable systems? The recent Supreme Court rulings in SFFA vs. Harvard and SFFA vs. UNC have raised awareness among many that affirmative action was never a sufficient intervention for the myriad barriers to equity ingrained in typical selective admissions processes. The decisions, while disruptive and […]

Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE in Minneapolis – November 15-18, 2023

September 26, 2023October 9, 2023 morishernandez Events, Pullias News Gabriela Torres emily koren edgar lopez Ralitsa Todorova Salome Otero Gloria Anglon Jimmy Aguilar Adriana Castillo Mariama Nagbe Natsumi Ueda Glenda Palacios Elif Asli Yucel Soumya Mishra Royel Johnson pullias news events adrian huerta adrianna kezar ashe elizabeth holcombe julie posselt zoe corwin

Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE 2023 Thursday, November 2, 10:00 to 11:15am, Virtual Conference Day, Dakota Virtual Room The Complexity of Transformation: Opportunities and Tensions Session Submission Type: Paper Session (Virtual) When Data Doesn’t Do It: Developmental Education Reform in a Community College District Authors: Soumya Mishra, University of Southern California, Elif Asli Yucel, University of Southern California and Cheryl D. Ching, University of Massachusetts […]

Julie Posselt and the Pullias Center for Higher Education Awarded $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation

September 5, 2023September 6, 2023 morishernandez Equity in Graduate Education, Pullias News graduate education julie posselt

‘Examining Rubrics in Graduate Education,’ a partnership with the University of Minnesota, will examine the utility and feasibility of rubrics in graduate admissions. USC Rossier Associate Professor Julie Posselt (and project Principal Investigator) and a team of Pullias Center and University of Minnesota researchers have received a significant grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will examine evaluation rubrics […]

Equity in Graduate Education: Organizing for Equity

March 31, 2023April 5, 2023 smacphee College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News pullias news julie posselt racial equity

“The Equity in Graduate Education Consortium has helped me to expand my connections with scholars and practitioners committed to positively influencing equity-based systemic change within graduate education. It is an invaluable community of thought and action partners who provide me with mutual mentoring opportunities having immediate and meaningful implications to my work within and beyond Cornell.” — Sara Xayarath Hernandez […]

Successful C-CIDE Program Expands Nationally: Now the Equity in Graduation Education Consortium

April 7, 2022August 10, 2022 smacphee C-CIDE, Pullias News pullias news C-CIDE graduate admissions julie posselt

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 […]

C-CIDE Model Goes International with UK Adoption

April 6, 2022April 7, 2022 rmichelman C-CIDE, Pullias News pullias news C-CIDE julie posselt

One focus of the successful California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) pilot has been equipping faculty with resources to manage political, motivational, and time costs associated with changing admissions. The project organizes change-ready faculty into a community of practice; provides research, training, and tools in equity-minded holistic review; and facilitates structured discussions that can be delicate for departments to […]

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 […]

Posselt Named USC Graduate School Associate Dean

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 rmichelman Pullias News pullias news julie posselt

Dr. Julie Posselt, Associate Professor of Higher Education in the USC Rossier School of Education and faculty member of the Pullias Center, has been named Associate Dean, USC Graduate School. The USC Graduate School’s mission is to promote an outstanding educational experience for USC graduate students, to celebrate graduate student achievements, and to provide leadership in the establishment and communication […]

NASEM Issues Comprehensive Report on Student Well-Being in Higher Education with Input from Pullias Center Researcher

January 21, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News julie posselt

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has released a consensus report compiled by a committee of renowned experts that included Julie Posselt from the Pullias Center. Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Wellbeing in Higher Education: Supporting the Whole Student includes the most current research, and reviews how institutions of higher education– from community colleges to doctoral programs– […]

C-CIDE Event Marks Beginning of New Phase for Forward-Looking Consortium

October 14, 2020 pulliasadmin Pullias News C-CIDE julie posselt

A recent event for California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) created an opportunity for teams from six campuses to learn from each other how to change current admission policies and practices to address racial and gender inequalities in STEM PhD programs. C-CIDE, a National Science Foundation-funded network of doctoral-granting universities and member departments, aims to improve how graduate programs […]