Four $20,000 Scholarships for Grad School to Be Awarded by Sallie Mae
Company Accepting Applications for Bridging the Dream Scholarships for Graduate Students Through Feb. 14
The application window is officially open for current and prospective graduate and professional school students to apply for Sallie Mae’s® $20,000 Bridging the Dream Scholarship for Graduate Students. The company will award four $20,000 scholarships to students who creatively describe their unique journey to graduate school, who or what influenced them to pursue an advanced degree, and what they hope to accomplish after graduate school. Students can apply at SallieMae.com/BridgingTheDreamGrad through Feb. 14, 2020, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
The Special Aid Support Funding application is now open! The deadline is Friday, November 1st, but all application information can be found when you log in to Academic Works: https://usc.academicworks.com/.
Dean’s Superintendents Advisory Group (DSAG) Scholarship Application 2019-20
This is a competitive scholarship open to all EDL students who aspire to become superintendents. Preference will be given to students in the second year of the program, but all EDL students are encouraged to apply. The scholarship is a minimum $10,000 award, and scholarship recipients will be recognized at the annual DSAG Awards Dinner (date TBD)*
All application materials must be submitted no later than *Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 11:59 PM (PST).*
Instructions:
Please complete this application.
Please upload an essay describing your professional goals. Your essay should be no longer than 500 words.
Please upload a copy of your current resume.
Please upload one letter of recommendation from an active or retired Superintendent or Charter School Administrator.
If you are not able to upload, or experience difficulty uploading a letter, the letter may be sent via email to tdedmon@rossier.usc.edu with “DSAG Scholarship” in the subject line.
*Scholarship recipients will need to submit a personal bio (maximum 100 words) and a head-shot photo upon notification of award.
Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for scholarships to attend the 6th Annual Women’s Leadership Counts Conference that will be held November 7, 2019, in Beverly Hills. Presented by the Japan America Society of Southern California, the theme of this year’s conference is: “From Locker Room to C-Suite,” examining how playing sports can foster the skills necessary for individuals to become influential leaders in their professional careers.
Scholarship applications are now being accepted and are due Friday, October 4, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. Scholarship recipients will be notified in late October via email. If selected, students will receive a full waiver of the registration fee (transportation and/or parking are not covered). Recipients will be expected to actively participate in the roundtable discussion and take notes; complete a participant survey after the conference; and write a brief report about their conference experiences, sharing what was learned.
The Robert and Amy Cardona Education Scholarship is awarded to a doctorate student at the Rossier School of Education, who is in the top 25% of his or her class, exhibits financial need, and exhibits interest to leverage his or her doctorate in education degree to serve the Los Angeles County area community in the profession of education. The Robert and Amy Cardona Education Scholarship is awarded in the amount of $10,000.
Qualified candidates for this scholarship should complete the information below. Finalists will be forwarded to the scholarship trust employees for selection and will be notified by letter.
Applications are due April 22 and can be accessed here.
The USC Good Neighbors 2019 grant application cycle is underway! Proposed programs must incorporate established university-community partnerships and support USC’s university-community initiatives. Programs that serve the local communities surrounding the university’s University Park or Health Sciences campuses are eligible.
Grant application is due at 12 midnight on Friday, February 8, 2019. Please visit our website to access the online grant application.
Additionally, we will have two in-person information sessions:
Health Sciences Campus: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (PST) in Hoffman Medical Research Center (HMR) first floor Hastings Auditorium Room 100 (1989 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089)
University Park Campus: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (PST) in Engemann Student Health Center (ESH) First Floor Conference Room (1031 W. 34th St, Los Angeles, CA 90089)
The mission of USC Good Neighbors is to provide greater coherence, visibility and coordination of the university’s partnerships with the community. Priorities are to:
1) Improve the quality of K-12 education, and enhance the quality of life for children and their families, with special consideration for improving student achievement
2) Improve health outcomes, particularly in the area of obesity and diabetes
3) Improve community safety through community policing or other initiatives
4) Promote economic development projects including workforce training, entrepreneurial stimulation through small business development and employability enhancement for local residents
Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.
Who Should Apply: Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session.
Locations: In addition to the below in-person locations, we will have a remote online session:
New York City
San Francisco Bay Area
Boston
Washington, DC.
Dates: All sections will be from 2019-04-01 to 2019-05-24.
Early Deadline: 2019-01-14. Regular Deadline: 2019-01-21. We are assessing and interviewing candidates who apply for the Early Deadline first and then based on remaining availability, will take candidates who applied for the Regular Deadline on a first-come first-serve basis.
Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited.
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!
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:
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.
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.
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.
The work of two Rossier faculty was featured on the USC News website:
Yasemin Copur-Gencturk’swork on math teachers’ learning and
Gale Sinatra’spartnership 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’sInstitute 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.
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