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Three Pullias Center Alumni Presented with 2025 Racial Equity Alumni Awards to Support Racial Equity-Related Research and Projects

February 5, 2025

For the third year, the Pullias Center for Higher Education’s Racial Equity Alumni Awards has again selected inspiring and innovative projects that focus on promoting …

Pullias’ Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center Releases New Report Focused on Transforming STEM Department Culture in Higher Ed

June 25, 2024

The Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center just released their newest research-based resource guide, “Starting Conversations about culture in STEM.” This guide is designed to help department …

Dr. Adrián H. Huerta is Named Co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Anna Julia Cooper Early Career Award

June 4, 2024

USC Rossier and Pullias Center Assistant Professor Dr. Adrián H. Huerta has been selected as a 2024 co-winner of the prestigious Anna Julia Cooper Early …

HigherEdJobs Podcast Explores the Delphi Project and Interviews Adrianna Kezar

May 3, 2024

In this HigherEdJobs podcast (recorded April 2024), Pullias Center director Adrianna Kezar talks to hosts Andrew Hibel and Kelly Cherwin about the Delphi Project on …

The Critical Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Equity

January 10, 2024

With funding from the National Science Foundation, scholars in the Pullias Center are exploring how professional societies embed and disseminate DEI reports in ways that shift the discourse and activity of their members. By Steve Desir As hubs for national communities within professions and disciplines, professional societies can and should play a critical role in […]

Kezar, Harper & Carducci Release New Book: Higher Education Leadership

January 10, 2024

Higher Education LeadershipChallenging Tradition and Foraging Possibilities Higher Education Leadership offers a groundbreaking exploration of leadership in higher education. Rozana Carducci, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar challenge traditional paradigms and ideologies that hinder progress—advocating instead for liberatory systemic change. The authors highlight new and evolving interdisciplinary leadership approaches for resisting and dismantling oppressive systems, including […]

Pullias Center New Faculty Appointments and Promotions

January 8, 2024

Please join us in celebrating a trio of new appointments and promotions at the Pullias Center! Well-deserved kudos to Dr. Julie Posselt, who was recently promoted to Professor of Education at the Rossier School of Education, Dr. Ron Hallett, who joins the Center as Research Professor, and Dr. Elizabeth Holcombe, promoted to Senior Research Associate. […]

Equity in Graduate Education Consortium Expands Support for Systemic Change

November 29, 2023

Funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation enables Posselt and team at the Pullias Center for Higher Education to build tools and grow its network …

The Educational Consequences of Early Contact with the Criminal Punishment System

November 27, 2023

With funding from AERA and NSF, research continues into the long-term negative consequences of juvenile arrest on college enrollment By Royel M. Johnson Earlier this …

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