This interactive session will highlight the trajectories of leaders in higher ed enrollment management with an emphasis on pathways to leadership, essential attributes of successful…
Derek Kindle (U.Wisconsin-Madison) and Shelley Arakawa (WittKieffer) will discuss the recent WittKeiffer survey report, Chief Enrollment Officers in a Time of Change, Challenge and Opportunity.…
By Joseph A. Kitchen College students’ well-being, particularly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of startling statistics about the state of…
By Joseph A. Kitchen Peer mentoring is a very common practice implemented by postsecondary institutions, student transition programs, and student support offices alike. Peer mentors…
By Adrian H. Huerta In March 2025, I officially wrapped up my National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded in 2022. As an education…
For more than three years, USC, Long Beach City College (LBCC), and Centro CHA, a Long Beach-based nonprofit, partnered in the LBCC Phoenix Scholars (LBCCPS),…
Join the Pullias Center's Promoting At-Promise Student Success (PASS) project research team as we share key findings from our three-year study on professional learning communities…
Top diversity, equity and inclusion scholars in higher education will come together to discuss the current challenging environment in higher education and offer their historical…
By Steve Desir How educational organizations conceptualize, discuss and implement their commitments to equity has been a contested issue throughout the history of higher education.…
AERA has selected Julie Posselt, professor of education in the Rossier School of Education and Pullias Center for Higher Education and associate dean of the…
The Promoting At-promise Student Success (PASS) Project's professional learning communities (PLCs) allowed for a cross-functional team of faculty, staff and administrators to learn with and…
Finding ways to involve and collaborate with research-practice partners is essential. In the October Pullias Center newsletter, Zoë Corwin highlighted our work on developing and…
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…
This webinar, co-produced by the Pullias Center and the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), explores innovative practices and lessons learned from institutional change…
Adrianna Kezar, the Director of the Pullias Center, Dean's Professor of Leadership and the Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of…
When Shaun Harper (USC Race & Equity Center's Founder and Chief Research Scientist) and I began conceptualizing our newest book, The Big Lie About Race in…
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock—and honestly, who could blame you given these trying times—you’re likely aware of the ongoing assault on diversity, equity…
Some conditions and strategies are more conducive than others to organizational learning and institutional change. As the Pullias Center works with the community to improve…
The last four years have been tumultuous in higher education — our efforts have been marked by unprecedented COVID campus shutdowns, civil unrest, graduate student…
The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) has selected the Pullias Center for Higher Education as this year’s recipient of the ASHE Special…
The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) has selected the Pullias Center for Higher Education as this year’s recipient of the ASHE Special…
USC Rossier University Professor Shaun Harper and Associate Professor Royel Johnson have been named 2024 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) Visionaries by the Los…
USC Rossier University Professor Shaun Harper and Associate Professor Royel Johnson have been named 2024 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) Visionaries by the Los…
The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) has received an additional $600,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates…
New publications that detail the 2024 Delphi Award-winning programs created by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan…
USC Rossier University Professor Shaun Harper and Associate Professor Royel Johnson have been named 2024 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) Visionaries by the Los…
We find ourselves at a critical juncture as states across the nation enact anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) legislation, and the Trump administration in its earliest days has attempted to shut down DEI initiatives across the federal government and other…
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.
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…
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2024)
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2024) This guide is designed for use by faculty and staff at the department level who would like to examine non-tenure-track faculty practices and issues. Its question sections, discussion questions,…
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2024)
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2024) This guide is designed for use by task forces, committees, or groups who would like to examine non-tenure-track faculty practices and issues at the campus level. Its question sections,…
Julie D. Kent, Liliana M. Garces, Julie R. Posselt, Tranae Hardy & Allison Robert
Council of Graduate Schools, Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center
In June 2023, with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Council of Graduate Schools and the the Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center launched a project to support equityminded graduate education in a changing legal landscape. In the…
Elizabeth Holcombe, Jordan Harper, Natsumi Ueda, Adrianna Kezar, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Darsella Vigil
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2025)
This Toolkit accompanies the report “Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership: Approaches and Considerations for the Work.” It contains a five-step action planning guide to help leaders create a plan to build capacity for Shared Equity Leadership on their campus.…
Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Darsella Vigil
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2025)
This Toolkit accompanies the report “Shared Responsibility Means Shared Accountability: Rethinking Accountability within Shared Equity Leadership.” It provides questions for leaders to reflect on current equity accountability systems and think through how those systems might change when responsibility for equity…
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