UPCOMING EVENTS
Rossier at AERA: You can find the complete line-up of Rossier faculty and student presentations and Rossier events at AERA here.
| AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS |
Estela Bensimon (CUE) received the AERA Division J Research Award. Julie Posselt (Pullias) received the AERA Early Career Award.
Zoe Corwin (Pullias), along with her co-authors Tattiya Maruco (Pullias), Stephen Aguilar (CELDTECH), and others outside USC, were awarded the Top Paper Award by AERA’s Media, Culture, and Learning SIG (special interest group) for her paper, “Evaluating the effects of a game-based intervention on FAFSA completion.”
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang was one of three internationally identified finalists for the Joseph E. Zins Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning, given by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) The award is for a senior scholar at the Full Professor level.
Julie Marsh’s (CEPEG) article with Michelle Hall, “Challenges and Choices: A Multidistrict Analysis of Statewide Mandated Democratic Engagement,” was selected as Publication of the Year for the AERA Districts in Research and Reform SIG.
Julie Posselt’s (Pullias) book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, & Faculty Gatekeeping, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Rachel White (CEPEG) was awarded the AERA Division L 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, “Donut Devourers, Fish Fanatics, Politicians, and Educators: Faces and Voices of State Education Policymaking.”
Rachel White (CEPEG) was awarded the 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the AERA Politics of Education (PEA) Special Interest Group (SIG).
| NEW PUBLICATIONS |
Benbenishty, R., Astor, R., Roziner, I. (in press). A School-Based Multilevel Study of Adolescent Suicide Ideation in California High Schools. The Journal of Pediatrics, 1-7.
Ching, C. D. (2018). Confronting the equity “learning problem” through practitioner inquiry. The Review of Higher Education, 41(3), 387-421.
Copur-Gencturk, Y., Tolar, T., Jacobson, E., Fan, W.(2018). An Empirical Study of the Dimensionality of the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Construct. Journal of Teacher Education 1-13.
DePaola, T. & Kezar, A. (2017). The Changing Face of Employment at Research Universities. New Directions for Institutional Research vol. 176, 83-96.
Kezar, A. (2018). Using philosophy to develop a thoughtful approach to going public or not. In L. Perna (Ed)., Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Kitchen, J.A., Sonnert, G., & Sadler, P. (2018). The impact of college- and university-run high school summer programs on students’ end of high school STEM career aspirations. Science Education, 102(1), 1-19.
Marsh, J. A. & Hall, M. (2018). Challenges and Choices: A Multidistrict Analysis of Statewide Mandated Democratic Engagement. American Educational Research Journal, 55(2), 243-286.
Pullias Center for Higher Education & Get Schooled. (2018). How is Technology Addressing the College Access Challenge?: A Review of the Landscape, Opportunities, and Gaps
. New York: Get Schooled.
Quinn, D. M., Thomas J. K., Greenberg, M., & Thal, D. (2018). Effects of a Video-Based Teacher Observation Program on the De-privatization of Instruction: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment. Educational Administration Quarterly. Advanced online publication.
Tierney, W.G. A road less travelled: The responsibilities of the intellectual. In L. Perna (Ed)., Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
| PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS, AND MEDIA |
Shafiqa Ahmadi (Rossier Justice) gave the closing keynote at the Women’s Leadership Forum at Chapman University.
Ron Astor was interviewed about gun violence and school safety on NPR and for UCLA Center X’s publication Just Talk: Voices of Education and Justice.
Ron Astor presented at a Congressional briefing on the topic of gun violence and school safety.
Estela Bensimon’s (CUE) piece Creating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Faculties appeared in Inside Higher Ed.
Estela Bensimon (CUE) gave the Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning Distinguished Lecture, “Reframing the Production of Racial Inequity as an Organizational Learning Problem.”
Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) was the opening keynote speaker for the California College Personnel Administration Spring Institute on “Intersectionality and Inclusion.”
Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) participated in a public debate on campus free speech with Dr. Walter Kimbrough, President of Dillard University, at the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Symposium.
Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) was the keynote speaker at the the Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges’ Faculty Institute on student protest hosted at Middlebury College.
Charles H.F. Davis III (Race and Equity) led a breakout session on “First-Generation College Students and Their Intersecting Identities,” and was the keynote speaker at El Camino College’s annual First-Generation Institute.
Elizabeth Holcombe (Pullias) gave a series of invited presentations on shared leadership at the Foundation for California Community Colleges’ professional development sessions.
Elizabeth Holcombe (Pullias) presented “Creating a Unified Community of Support: Increasing Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM,” a live webinar hosted by Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN).
Adrian Huerta (Pullias) gave an invited presentation titled “Strategies to support Latino male community college students: Three tools for success” for Diversity Week at the College of Southern Nevada.
Adrian Huerta (Pullias) gave an invited lecture, “Latinos, gangs, and the higher education pipeline: A qualitative view on the school-to-prison-pipeline,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Adrian Huerta’s (Pullias) research on Latino men, gang-related issues, and inequalities in educational opportunities was featured in El Tiempo, a Spanish-language newspaper in Las Vegas.
Adrian Huerta (Pullias) served as a panelist at the Young Men’s Leadership Conference hosted by the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang gave a keynote to 5,000 attendees at the TESOL International Convention in Chicago on March 30th.
Adrianna Kezar (Pullias) presented “Building organizational capacity and innovating for resiliency and thriving” at the 2018 Association of Presbyterian Colleges & Universities Members’ Conference.
Julie Marsh (CEPEG) presented Democratic engagement in education reform: The case of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as part of the Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Colloquium at Vanderbilt University.
Maria Ott was a panelist and breakout session leader at the Women’s Leadership Forum at Chapman University.
Julie Posselt (Pullias) was an invited speaker at the American Physical Society’s annual conference, in Los Angeles. Her research presentation was entitled “Faculty Support & Student Wellbeing in STEM Graduate Programs.”
Julie Posselt (Pullias) was a plenary speaker for the Western Association of Graduate Schools annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV. Her talk was entitled “Beyond Old Boys Clubs: Trust Networks in 21st Century Graduate Education.”
William Tierney (Pullias) gave the opening keynote, “The Direction of Future Research in Higher Education,” at the Conference on Higher Education in Konya, Turkey.
Marissiko Wheaton (Pullias) served as a panelist for APIDA Community Conversations – What does a Model Minority Mutiny Demand in Higher Education?, a live webinar hosted by ACPA’s Asian Pacific American Network (APAN) and NASPA’s Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community (APIKC).