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Category Archives: Events
Conference: Admissions, Race and Identity
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.
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)
Invitation: Vice Provost for Graduate Programs Luncheon
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
Join us at the USC Rossier Homecoming Picnic!
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Two Great Events – Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dear Students,
The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is proud to organize and present two terrific events for the USC community.
OUT IN SPORTS: October 11, 2018
Join us for a day of events focused on LGBT athletes and the challenges they face, featuring “Alone in the Game,” a film by David McFarland. Please see the attached flyer for details and RSVP information for the film screening.
ANITA HILL: November 8, 2018
RSVP to attend a discussion between Prof. Anita Hill of Brandeis University and our own Prof. Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro about how we can effect change as we move to end sexual harassment in our institutions. Please see the attached flyer for details and RSVP information.
We look forward to enjoying these two events with you!
Questions? Contact gender@usc.edu.
Schooltalk for Equity: Rethinking (Tech’s Role In) What We Say About and To Students
Dear Students,
The Center for Empowered Learning and Development with Technology (CELDTech) is proud to organize and present the following workshop with Dr. Mica Pollock to promote equity in your daily interactions with students.
Schooltalk for Equity: Rethinking (Tech’s Role In) What We Say About and To Students on October 30, 2018.
Please see the attached flyer for details and RSVP information for the workshop.
Fall Book Club at USC Rossier – REMINDER TO RSVP
Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,
We would like to remind you that there is still time to RSVP for the Book Club. We will be reading and discussing There There, by Tommy Orange.
Our school-wide discussion will take place in the Radisson Ballroom on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, from noon until 2 pm. Lunch will be provided, so please RSVP by Oct. 12.
Books can be picked up in WPH 1100 10 am–noon or 2 pm–4 pm, until Wednesday, October 3rd. After then, books may be picked up in WPH 1102, until Fri., Oct. 12th. Please note that your acceptance of the book indicates your commitment to read it and participate in our discussion!
We also welcome remote participants to take part in the discussion. Please provide a mailing address if you will need the book shipped to you. A link to the virtual classroom will be provided closer to the date of the Book Club.
Part of the Rossier Way
We launched our book club last spring as part of a new initiative, “The Rossier Way,” which is designed to cultivate a culture of caring and support among faculty, staff and students. I am hosting the book clubs in partnership with Darline Robles, our Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion.
Our goal is to select a work of fiction that helps us explore themes relevant to our mission to advance educational equity. This book was among the many thoughtful suggestions submitted by faculty and staff at our August Kick-Off.
There There is, according to its publisher, Knopf Doubleday, “a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.”
Tommy Orange is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, Calif., and currently lives in Angels Camp, Calif.
We look forward to a lively discussion in November.