Monthly Archives: October 2018

4th Annual Research and Fellowships Week

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You are invited to Research and Fellowships Week (October 29 – November 2, 2018) hosted by USC Academic Honors and Fellowships, the Graduate School and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. The goal of the week is to share about research opportunities and funding sources that support research, graduate study, language learning, English teaching and internships in the U.S. and abroad. Whether you are a first year student looking to find ways to get involved or a senior thinking about post-graduate possibilities, Research and Fellowships Week can help you navigate your next steps. The week will culminate with a reception celebrating the efforts of those students that have applied for fellowships this fall and inviting future applicants to learn from their peers about the application process.

More information and a link to RSVP can be found on the Academic Honors and Fellowships website at https://ahf.usc.edu/rfw/. If you have questions, please email ahfstaff@usc.edu. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Spoken Justice on 11/1 – Last event of the semester!

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On behalf of the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice, we invite you to attend Spoken Justice on Thursday, November 1 at Ground Zero. This Spoken Justice event is a collaboration between our Center, GSG, Residential Education, and Rossier Student Organization. Spoken Justice is a series of open mic, spoken word events that have a focus on identity and social justice issues.

 

This FREE event is open to anyone who wishes to perform and/or attend. Sign-ups to perform spoken word begin at 6:15pm and the event will kick-off at 6:30pm and end at 8pm. Food will be provided. Come out and support the artists and hear some amazing student poetry. For more information, see the attached flyer, visit our Spoken Justice website page or check out our Facebook event.

Thank you for your time and we hope to see you on Thursday, November 1!

 

Best,

Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice

USC Rossier School of Education, WPH 1003

Visit our website: socialjustice.usc.edu 

Rossier Research News, OCTOBER, 2018

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OCTOBER 2018
UPCOMING EVENTS
In partnership with the USC Race and Equity Center’s event, Engaging Equity LIVE!, Rossier will host Minh Tran, Ph.D., on Nov. 5th from 

2:30 -3:30 pm in WPH 201. She will engage us in discussion on navigating invisible racism in the classroom. Please RSVP.

 

The Rossier Centennial Lecture featuring John King will take placeNov. 14th at 12:00 pm in Bovard Auditorium. RSVP here.

 
AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang received the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) Award in recognition of outstanding service.

 

Eugenia Mora-Flores was awarded the Rossier Teaching Excellence Award for 2018.

 

Congratulations to the latest recipients of the Rossier Research Office Internal Research Grants:

  • Arely Acuna: Undocumented Student Organizations:
    Navigating the Sociopolitical Context in Higher Education
  • Jude Paul Dizon: Examining the Impact of Campus Security on Racial Climate for Black Undergraduate Men
  • Joshua Schuschke: #RepresentationMatters: Constructing Black Academic Identities Through Popular and Social Media
  • Marissiko Wheaton: Consciousness is Power: Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Critical Race Resistance

Internal Research Grants are still available. Please contact Deb Karpman, Assistant Dean for Research, at dkarpman@rossier.usc.edufor more information.

 
GRANTS AWARDED
The Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice (CERPP)

was recently awarded the following contracts ($330,000) for their USC College Advising Corps program to be implemented in high schools in 2018-19:

  • Compton Unified School District ($180,000)
  • Downey Unified School District ($60,000)
  • West Covina Unified School District ($90,000)

 

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk and colleagues received a $2,168,584 grantfrom the National Science Foundation for their project “Usable Measures of Teacher Understanding: Exploring Diagnostic Models and Topic Analysis as Tools for Assessing Proportional Reasoning for Teaching.”

 

Yasemin Copur-Gencturk and colleagues from Viterbi received a $750,000 NSF award for the project “Immersive Virtual Learning for Worker-Robot Teamwork on Construction Sites.”

 

Jerry Lucido (CERPP), received $1.2 million in grants from the national College Advising Corps for the USC College Advising Corps program for 2018-19:

  • College Advising Corps ($822,193)
  • Panda Cares Foundation ($399,079)

 

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s project with the Intellectual Virtues Academy Charter School in Long Beach, CA. was funded by the Templeton Foundation. The project is entitled “An interdisciplinary study of adolescents’ development of intellectual virtues (IVs), and teachers’ IV-supporting pedagogical practices.” The total grant is $1,500,000.

 

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and colleagues at ICT received $161,822 from Army Research Laboratories to  implement biometrics into a Templeton Foundation-funded study to promote adolescents’ intellectual virtue development in urban low-SES contexts.

 

Tatiana Meguizo (Pullias), along with Co-PIs at Claremont Graduate University and UCLA, received a $100,000 grant from College Futures Foundation to support the Math Pathways Project, a study to understand Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) students’ course-taking experiences along their educational pathway from middle school into college, with the end goal to identify promising pathways or interventions that may lead to students’ success in college math.

 

Julie Posselt (Pullias), along with members of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) project team, received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to achieve equity for underrepresented groups in doctoral degree attainment in physical sciences.

 

Julie Posselt (Pullias) and colleagues received a supplemental grant of $72,032 from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Deploying Holistic Admissions and Critical Support Structures to Increase Diversity and Retention of US Citizens in Physics Graduate Programs.” The goal of this supplement is to strengthen current NSF-funded projects related to physics graduate education by creating connections among them that confer mutual benefits.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Ching, C. D., Felix, E. R., Castro, M. F., & Trinidad, A. (2018). Achieving Racial Equity From the Bottom-Up? The student equity policy in the California community colleges. Educational Policy.

 

Huerta, A., & Rios-Aguilar, C. (2018). Treat a cop like they are god: Exploring the relevance and utility of funds of gang knowledge among Latino male students. Urban Education.

 

Imazeki, J., Bruno, P., Levin, J., Brodziak de los Reyes, I., Atchison, D. (2018). Working Toward K-12 Funding Adequacy: California’s Current Policies and Funding Levels. Getting Down to Facts II, policy report. Stanford, CA: PACE.

 

Immordino-Yang, M. (2018). How People Learn II: Learners, contexts and cultures. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on the Science and Practice of Learning. National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

 

Immordino-Yang, M., Darling-Hammond, L., & Krone, C. (2018). The Brain Basis for Integrated Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: How emotional and social relationships drive learning.

The Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development.

 

Johnson, R., Bruno, P., Tanner, S. (2018). Effects of the Local Control Funding Formula on Revenues, Expenditures, and Student Outcomes. Getting Down to Facts II, policy report. Stanford, CA: PACE.

 

Kezar, A. (2018). Scaling change in higher education: A guide for stakeholder groups. Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA: Association of American Universities and Pullias Center for Higher Education.

 

Kezar, A. J., & Holcombe, E. M. (2018). Challenges of implementing integrated programs for underrepresented students in STEM: A study of the CSU STEM collaboratives.Educational Policy.

 

Koppich, J. E., Humphrey, D.C., Marsh, J. A., Polikoff, M., Willis, J. (2018). The Local Control Funding Formula After Four Years: What Do We Know?. Getting Down to Facts II, policy report. Stanford, CA: PACE.

 

Lucido, J., Hossler, D., Moulton, K., and Massa, B. (2018, October). A Professional Body of Knowledge for a Nascent Profession. SEM Quarterly, 6(3).

 

Marsh, J., Hall, M., Allbright, T., Tobben, L., Mulfinger, L., Kennedy, K., & Daramola, E.J. (2018) Taking stock of stakeholder engagement in California’ss Local Control Funding Formula: What we can learn from the past four years to guide next steps?. Getting Down to Facts II, policy report. Stanford, CA: PACE.

 

Yang, X., Pavarini, G., Schnall, S. & Immordino-Yang, M.H. (2018). Looking up to virtue: Averting gaze facilitates moral construals via posteromedial activations. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience.

 
PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND MEDIA
 

The work of two Rossier faculty was featured on the USC News website:

  • Yasemin Copur-Gencturk’s work on math teachers’ learning and
  • Gale Sinatra’s partnership with La Brea Tarpits and the USC Institute for Creative Technologies to develop augmented reality experiences for learning.

Zoë B. Corwin (Pullias) gave two invited presentations, titled “Serving Communities Struggling with Digital Equity” and “Working with Teachers to Amplify College-Going Guidance,” at the 2018 National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) National Conference in Salt Lake City.

 

Liane Hypolite and Marissiko M. Wheaton (Pullias) were selected as the Rossier representatives for ASHE’s Graduate Student Policy Seminar in Tampa, FL.

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and colleagues on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine committee on How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures published their consensus report.

 

Adrianna Kezar (Pullias) was quoted in The Washington Post about how more college professors are being called on to “help head off problems that can derail students.”

 

Adrianna Kezar (Pullias) gave a keynote talk titled “Change journey in higher education:  Successfully leading institutional transformation” at the American College Personnel Association’s Institute on the Curricular Approach in Chicago.

 

Michael Lanford was a featured presenter at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education conference in Chicago.

 

Jerry Lucido (CERPP) was interviewed by the local NPR affiliate, KPCC, on a planned ACT/SAT validity study that the UC system intends to conduct this year.

 

Julie Marsh (CEPEG) gave an invited talk as part of the Education Policy Speaker Series at Michigan State University, entitled “Civic engagement in education reform: The case of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)”.

 

Julie Marsh (CEPEG) presented “Getting Down to Facts II” to the Association of California School Administrators Leadership Assembly in Santa Ana.

 

Julie Marsh (CEPEG) presented “Taking stock of stakeholder engagement in California’s Local Control Funding Formula: What can we learn from the past four years to guide next steps?” at the PACE-EdSource Getting Down to Facts II Conference in Sacramento.

 

Julie Marsh (CEPEG) presented as part of the Getting Down to Facts II Panel at the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association General Membership Meeting in Redwood City.

 

Conference: Admissions, Race and Identity

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Our center was founded on an abiding belief that admission and enrollment professionals are deeply dedicated educators. In your roles, you shape the educational and cultural environments of our campuses. You seek to understand the individuals who apply, and then you bring them together as a collective who learn from one another, just as they do from your faculty members.

 

To be at your best, you must have a deep understanding of school and society, social movements, and inherent biases that are barriers to progress. Today we live in a nation divided by class, opportunity and political tribalism. In the midst of it all, our students build their identities on factors both within and beyond their control.

  • What can we learn about all this?
  • How can we best understand our applicants in light of these factors?
  • How should it impact the way we read applications and build campus communities?
  • And finally, how can we avoid biases that may contribute to divisions and a lack of inclusion?

 

It is time for us to have this conversation. Please join us January 27-29, 2019 here in Los Angeles at Admissions, Race and Identity to explore these most important and vexing issues of our day. We will learn from experts, devise ways to improve our policies and practices, and we will understand each other a little better as a result.

 

Please visit our website to register and for details. I’ll see you in January!

All the best,

Jerome Lucido

Professor of Practice and Executive Director

Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice

 

Associate Dean for Strategic Enrollment Services

USC Rossier School of Education

DSC Weekend Write, Nov 3-4, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM in SOS B49.

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The Rossier Doctoral Support Center will offer Weekend Write on November 3-4 at 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM on the University Park Campus in SOS B49 (see Social Science Building at https://web-app.usc.edu/maps/ ).  Students are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to focus on writing.  Students at any stage of the doctoral program can attend as little a few hours per day or attend the whole weekend session.

 

Please also note that Operation Dissertation Acceleration (ODA), an intensive writing retreat will be offered at the USC Orange County Campus in Irvine.

Workshop Dates: Thursday – Sunday, November 29 – December 2, 2018
Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Acceptance Notification: Friday, November 9, 2018
Application link:  Fall 2018 – ODA Application

For more information regarding the fall schedule of DSC Weekend Writes and ODA, please go to the DSC Blog at http://dsc-usc.typepad.com/usc-doctoral-support-center-blog/presentations.html.

 

Sincerely,
Evelyn

Evelyn Felina Castillo, Ed.D.
USC Rossier School of Education | Doctoral Support Center
3470 Trousdale Parkway, WPH 602F | Los Angeles, CA  90089-4036
t:  213.740.3845 | f:  213.740.8092 | e:  efelina@rossier.usc.edu
http://rossier-mis.adobeconnect.com/evelynfelina/ (by appointment only)

Maintaining Standards for Human Subject Research

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To: Human Subject Researchers at USC

Human subject research at USC is designed to advance scientific understanding of human beings and the effects of interventions on human behavior, performance, disease and health. USC research is conducted within a framework of ethics, policies and regulations that protect human subjects, adhering to long established principles of informed consent.

My office recently investigated allegations on a particular study where research fell short of these principles. With this in mind, I am writing the research community with a few reminders:

  • Informed consent is our commitment to human subjects. We should not violate that consent, even when a study appears to be low risk and less than expected consent would be expedient.
  • The study team needs to be aware of and understand the informed consent, and make sure that the principal investigator is aware of any situations where the consent is not or cannot be followed. Please alert the PI to any issues that cause concern, at any time in the submission and conduct of a study.
  • For large study portfolios and study teams, regular team meetings are expected. These will educate new staff on execution of the study, share study information, and report on adverse events and amendments. Person(s) submitting to iStar should be aware of how the study will be conducted.
  • If you ever feel that a violation has occurred, please do alert the university, either to the IRB Director (kristija@usc.edu) or the university compliance hotline:https://ooc.usc.edu/

Please consult the OPRS website for guidance on conducting human subject studies and for training resources: https://oprs.usc.edu/

Randolph Hall
Vice President of Research

Invitation: Vice Provost for Graduate Programs Luncheon

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Dear Students,

The USC Graduate School’s Vice Provost for Graduate Programs, Sally Pratt, invites you to attend one of the Fall 2018 Graduate Student Luncheons.

The luncheon will serve as an opportunity to create an inclusive community for graduate students from both the University Park Campus and the Health Science Campus. You have the opportunity to talk with the Vice Provost about a variety of graduate and professional student topics that range from Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to International Student experiences to Academic Professional Development; including your own concerns and discussion items. Vice Provost Pratt is interested in hearing your news, updates, and concerns as well as what you think the USC Graduate School does well and what it can improve upon and how.

The event is open to all USC Graduate Students, and attendance will be capped at 20 Graduate Students per luncheon. Since space is limited, please remember that your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat at the luncheon. The exact location of each luncheon will be communicated through a confirmation email sent to the first 20 students, per event, who have expressed interest in the particular meeting date.

The menu for these events consists of sandwiches, beverages, and dessert.

Reserve your space for one of the luncheons by filling out this form by Friday, October 19th.

Please forward any questions to Ashley Brooks at brooksas@usc.edu

Save the Date APA Style training workshop 11/7/18

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Do you know there is a video for inserting Running Head in APA style citation? If not, join us Wednesday November 7th 2018, 10am-11:30am in the VKC Library Multimedia Room.  Jana Parizer, Campus Success Ambassador for APA Style CENTRAL will conduct a training session with the APA Style CENTRAL, which is available through the USC Libraries.  Light refreshments served.

Sign up and bring a friend.

http://bit.ly/APAstyle2018

Wednesday November 7th 2018, 10am-11:30am in the VKC Library Multimedia Room

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Chiméne Tucker, cetucker@usc.edu