Kitchen Promoted, Desir Joins Pullias Faculty

Congratulations to Joseph (Joey) Kitchen, recently promoted to Associate Research Professor, and a hearty welcome to Steve Desir, who recently joined our faculty as Assistant Research Professor. Dr. Kitchen has served as a Co-Investigator for the Pullias Center’s Promoting At-promise Student Success (PASS) project since joining the Center’s faculty in 2021. He initially joined the Pullias team in 2015 as […]

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Pullias Team Addresses Biases and Discrimination Hiding in Letters of Recommendation

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 […]

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Pullias Center welcomes 7 new scholars

The Pullias Center for Higher Education is proud to announce the addition of seven new researchers! First, we welcome two new postdoctoral research associates, Román Liera and James Dean Ward. Liera, a qualitative researcher who studies racial equity in student outcomes and faculty participation, works on projects that promote equity in graduate education with Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the […]

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