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