Julie Posselt

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Professor & Associate Dean at USC 
Los Angeles, CA | EquityGradEd.org 
Author: 
-Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (HarvardUP, 2016)
 -Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change (StanfordUP, 2020)
I climb mountains & play the cello for fun, but not at the same time
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Julie PosseltFeb 17, 2023
Julian HamannFeb 17, 2023

Our special issue of Research Evaluation has been published!

Entitled "Devices of evaluation: Institutionalization and impact" and introduced by the guest-editors Anna Kosmützky, Frerk Blome and myself, the issue includes eight contributions on peer review at the ERC, academic social networking sites, rankings, bibliometric infrastructures, curricula vitae, the REF, graduate schools admission processes, and more.

The whole issue is #openaccess.

https://academic.oup.com/rev/issue/31/4

Research Evaluation

OUP Academic
Julie PosseltJan 1, 2023
Daily Ghibli  Dec 1, 2022

Some countryside sceneries from My Neighbor Totoro.

Suitable for your cozy desktop wallpaper.

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオズブリ #wallpaper #desktopwallpaper #myneighbortotoro #totoro #anime #scenery #landscape #mastoart #hayaomiyazaki

Julie PosseltDec 31, 2022
Rabih AlameddineDec 31, 2022
Japanese New Year's Card, Cranes and Sun
Show threadJulie PosseltDec 30, 2022
@1P1P1D Good question. That’s a high bar. I’m going to think on it. A lot of work that aims to shift power relations gets co-opted, diluted, or subverted by institutional interests. But there are also people (mostly of color) maneuvering, resisting, & refusing from within on a daily basis, and I would hate to diminish that aspect of the struggle.
Show threadJulie PosseltDec 28, 2022
@AndreDarmanin 💯
Show threadJulie PosseltDec 28, 2022
@1P1P1D I hear you. It’s one of the most awkward things about my field, higher ed administration, that people are looking for what to do as leaders to be “part of the solution” in institutions whose past & present suggest solutions are naïve… that are defined by self-reproduction & racialization… and where default approaches to change rely on “master’s tools,” to use Lorde’s language. Gets existential, but is part of why I like studying outliers.
Julie PosseltDec 27, 2022

There’s a dissertation to be written on the org & cultural changes required to create stable, internally equitable systems for #DEI professionals & their work. This story about resignations at #Princeton is unfortunate but unsurprising, and a reminder that 2020 headlines about elite universities’ big $ responses to #BLM were just one episode in a still unfolding story. #blackmastodon

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/12/princeton-dei-resign-staff-athletics-share-lack-of-support

3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support

Three Princeton staff members who were hired to conduct work related to diversity, equity, and inclusion have resigned within the past 15 months and allege a lack of support from the University, an investigation by the ‘Prince’ has found.

The Princetonian
Show threadJulie PosseltDec 25, 2022
@CatherineTan Wait now… personalized and everything. This is epic.
Show threadJulie PosseltDec 23, 2022
@grimalkina This reminds me very much of the distinction my team found with grad admissions committees implementing test-optional admissions and holistic review: “This is hard, but we are professors and we get paid to solve hard problems” vs. “This is hard, and we are tired of solving hard problems from our day jobs”
Julie PosseltDec 23, 2022
Cat HicksNov 29, 2022
So here's one of the things I'm super interested in that's coming out of our recent pilot research with software teams: there's a big difference between "things that are hard, but we're good at solving them" and "things that are hard, in a way that absolutely kills our motivation."