Elizabeth Holcombe, Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez and Russell Lowery-Hart (Amarillo College) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This case study documents the transformation of Amarillo College (AC) from an institution with low retention and completion rates to a community college that has been recognized nationally for its innovative approach to improving student success. In the midst of a budget crisis, […]
Elizabeth Holcombe, Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Adrianna Kezar and Karen Stills (Dallas College) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) Karen Stills, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success at Dallas College (DC), led an effort to transform advising for the students at this community college beginning in 2020. In the midst of a merger and reorganization effort, where seven campuses […]
Jarrett T. Gupton Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This policy brief analyzes the regressive higher education policy backlash through a racial justice evaluative framework and presents a typology of higher education reform legislation. The brief considers what this means for racial justice in democracy and higher education. Categories: Policymaking, Racial Equity, Leadership
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Andrew Lawson (California State University, Monterey Bay) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This undertaking to implement EO 1110 was the driving force behind the systemic change project led by Andrew Lawson, Dean of the College of Science at CSUMB. Because of CSUMB’s existing commitment to innovation to support student success for traditionally-disenfranchised […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Stephanie Salomone (University of Portland) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This Case Study describes how Stephanie Salmone, Department Chair of Mathematics and Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center at the University of Portland (UP), led a project called Redesigning Education For Learning through Evidence and Collaborative Teaching (REFLECT). The REFLECT […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Sue Rosser (San Francisco State University) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) Over a 3-year period starting in 2014, Sue Rosser, Provost at San Francisco State University, worked with women faculty in STEM to explore their experiences and determine their priorities for career advancement during their time with the university. Preliminary data from […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez and Elizabeth Holcombe Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) In 2016, as part of a three person team, Lisa Looney and Sean Bernard led the efforts to create a new teaching evaluation policy and a larger set of faculty-related policies within a new Faculty Handbook. As chair of the Faculty Policies Committee (Lisa) and Faculty Senate […]
Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez, and Elizabeth Holcombe, Noah Finkelstein, (University of Colorado Boulder) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This Case Study highlights Noah Finkelstein, Professor of Physics at CU Boulder, and the Leader Moves he made to develop and adopt a new framework for supporting and assessing teaching on his campus. Noah is one of the Principal Investigators in the Physics […]
Susan Elrod, Adrianna Kezar, Ángel de Jesus González Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) Several years into a pandemic, a racial reckoning unfolding, enrollments fluctuating, and with strapped finances, leaders are in dire need of a guide that can help support them in leading systemic change. Successful systemic change in higher education involves multiple leaders at various levels across campus […]
Elizabeth Holcombe, Jordan Harper, Natsumi Ueda, Adrianna Kezar, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Darsella Vigil Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) This report, the fifth in the On Shared Equity Leadership series, explores ways to build capacity for the work of shared equity leadership (SEL) in higher education. SEL is a leadership approach that scales diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work […]