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
By Royel M. Johnson As racial inequities in education deepen — due in part to the current COVID-19 public health crisis, growing economic challenges, and state-sanctioned anti-Black violence — efforts to increase the use of research evidence in policymaking takes on heightened importance. Specifically, use of rigorous research that is anchored in critical and transformative paradigms is key to the […]
Adrian H. Huerta, Maria Romero-Morales, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Julie Vu Nguyen Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) The collegiate experiences of men of color—Black, Latino, multiracial, Native American, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander men—are influenced by a wide variety of factors that determine if and how they persist to reach college graduation. Subtle and overt acts of racism and microaggressions […]
Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Darsella Vigil, and Jude Paul Mathias Dizon Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) In this publication, the first in the “On Shared Equity Leadership” series, we describe how broadly inclusive and collaborative approaches to leadership are necessary to achieve equitable outcomes. We term this approach shared equity leadership (SEL), in which equity becomes everyone’s responsibility and […]
Raquel M. Rall Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This report provides research and practical advice on how boards of trustees can influence diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and policies. The report argues that boards must be strategically woven into the conversation in order to guide intentional changes to policies, practices, procedures, behaviors, and attitudes towards racial equity. This is […]
Antar A. Tichavakunda Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This report should be read as another voice contributing in the ongoing conversation of equity for Black students in Cincinnati. Many of the key figures highlight stark racial disparities that we should be troubled by and take seriously. The numbers here only provide a slice of the portrait of Blacks in […]
Authors make the case that Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization could be used as a lever to promote anti-racism in higher education. The new brief “Centering Racial Justice in the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act: A Roadmap for Legislators” builds on the Pullias Center for Higher Education’s 2017 report defining the HEA that offered three principles for reauthorization (equal […]
Elise Swanson, Genia Bettencourt, Zoë Corwin, Adrianna Kezar, Jenna Sablan, and James Ward Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This brief is intended as an evidence-based guide for policy analysts and decision makers to inform critical areas in the Higher Education Authorization Act related to racial justice. Our recommendations prioritize combating systemic racism in higher education with a particular focus […]
KC Culver, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This toolkit helps design teams engage in this process of implementing the Design for Equity in Higher Education model, For each phase of the model, this toolkit provides a short description and offers some questions and suggestions to guide practice. Categories: Delphi Project, Racial Equity, Guides
KC Culver, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) A customized guide about liberatory design thinking processes that have been tested within college settings to support changes that enhance equity in policies and practices within institutions. This research is based on case studies of several institutions, including focus group interviews with the campus design teams and […]