Description
Building a Culture of Shared Equity Leadership in Higher Education is a multi-year project that provides insights into the opportunities, challenges, structures, context, roles and other core features of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) in higher education.
Watch the 'Starting SEL: Insights from Research and Practice' Webinar
Are you interested in learning more about how to start implementing Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) on your own campus? This webinar reviews what we have learned so far about starting SEL, including lessons on how to structure and build capacity for the work, how to think about accountability and roles differently, and how to manage and support the emotional labor involved in this work. We also direct participants to more information and resources in the six reports published to date.
In addition to hearing from Pullias Center’s Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe, you will hear stories of campuses that have used our research to start SEL on their campuses. Representatives from the University of Colorado, Boulder and the University of Minnesota will share their experiences, answer questions, and offer advice for others looking to start SEL.
About
Thanks to the ECMC Foundation for supporting our continued work with Shared Equity Leadership (SEL)! With this $400,000 grant, we will explore how to develop SEL on campuses that do not already have this approach in operation, as well as create supportive resources for campuses that want to implement SEL in the future.
As the politicial context around DEI work has changed substantially since our original research was conducted, there is a need for campuses to have guidance on how to navigate increasingly hostile climates.
Our Earlier Work
Beginning in 2020, the Pullias Center and the American Council on Education authored a series of six reports and a toolkit focused on different aspects of Shared Equity Leadership in higher education. The initial report, Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work, suggested that improving equity outcomes for systemically marginalized students is most effective when leadership teams across campus take collective responsibility for the work.
Since then, our library has grown to include five reports that focus on various aspects of SEL, including how to structure the work, capacity-building, how different roles within a campus environment can engage with SEL, accountability and emotional labor. In addition, the SEL Toolkit was designed to help leaders determine their strengths and weaknesses — and those of their team — in the values and practices necessary to effectively practice Shared Equity Leadership.
The work provides a research-informed foundation upon which higher education leaders can implement institutional policies and practices to best support the needs of all postsecondary education students.
Project News
Pullias Center Receives $400,000 Grant from ECMC Foundation to Continue Shared Equity Leadership Research
“Starting Shared Equity Leadership: Insights from Research and Practice” Webinar Recording Now Available
What’s Next for Shared Equity Leadership?
New Shared Equity Leadership Report and Webinar Explore Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces for Campus Teams
New Developments in Shared Equity Leadership
New Reports and Webinars Explore Accountability, Roles in SEL and Capacity Building Over the past two years, Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Elizabeth Holcombe, former...
Project Team
Natsumi Ueda
Research Assistant
Publications
Emotional Labor in Shared Equity Leadership Environments: Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces
Shared Leadership in Higher Education: A Framework and Models for Responding to a Changing World
Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work
Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: Four Approaches to Structuring the Work
Shared Equity Leadership Toolkit
Shared Responsibility Means Shared Accountability: Rethinking Accountability Within Shared Equity Leadership
Leading for Equity from Where You Are: How Leaders in Different Roles Engage in Shared Equity Leadership
Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership: Approaches and Considerations for the Work
Partner
The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice. As the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities, ACE’s strength lies in its diverse membership of more than 1,700 colleges and universities, related associations, and other organizations in America and abroad. ACE is the only major higher education association to represent all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions: two-year and four-year, public and private.
Funders
ECMC Foundation is a national, private foundation whose North Star goal is to eliminate equity gaps in postsecondary completion by 2040. The Foundation uses a spectrum of funding structures, including strategic grantmaking and program-related investments through Education Innovation Ventures, to invest in both nonprofit and for-profit ventures. In pursuit of system change, the Foundation’s grantmaking and investing are concentrated on the three following strategic priorities: removing barriers to postsecondary completion; building the capacity of organizations, institutions and systems; and transforming the postsecondary ecosystem.
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations were organized in 1952 and are supported by two trusts established by Mr. Arthur Vining Davis. The Foundations aim to bear witness to Mr. Davis’ successful corporate leadership and his ambitious philanthropic vision. Since their inception, the Foundations have given over 3,800 grants totaling more than $300 million to colleges and universities, hospitals, medical schools, and divinity schools.
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