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University of Southern California

To support the Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) seed grantees by equipping them with research, tools, change management strategies, and a supportive network of colleagues

  • Amount $1,200,303
  • City Los Angeles, CA
  • Investigator Julie Posselt
  • Year 2023
  • Program Higher Education
  • Sub-program

This grant to University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education funds its Equity in Graduate Education (EGE) Consortium which will provide strategic support for 10 Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC). Participation in the EGE will equip SCSC project teams with data, tools, and change management strategies to achieve systemic change. The EGE Consortium model is one of cohort-based learning within and across universities through a “networked improvement community” approach. Campus teams develop and implement action plans that create ongoing systems of faculty and other forms of development. Teams are typically made up of 6-10 people, including 2-3 liaisons to consortium leadership who act as point persons and a conduit for the professional development that EGE provides its campuses. Funded activities include virtual workshops, bi-monthly liaison meetings, and an in-person meeting for campus liaisons. Up to six hours of individualized coaching/consultation is available to each team. A “train-the-trainer” model is employed such that liaisons host their own campus workshops for faculty, staff, and students using material developed by EGE. Each SCSC campus will enroll in one of three “tracks” to focus their professional development and institutional change efforts, selecting from 1) Admissions & Recruitment, 2) Mentoring & Wellbeing, and 3) Equitable Selection Systems. The tracks will be developed, refined, and delivered in collaboration with content experts complementary of the EGE leadership team.

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