Colloquium speaker, Julie Posselt (University of Southern California) today at 4pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please join us for the Physics Colloquium today, at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:        Julie Posslet (University of Southern California)
Date:              Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Time:              4:00 PM
Place:             1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:               Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping

Abstract:  How does graduate admissions work? Who does the system work for, and who falls through its cracks? Where does admissions reform fit into broader efforts to reduce inequalities in graduate education? In this talk, education professor Julie Posselt will pull back the curtain on admissions processes usually conducted in secret, and examine the limits and possibilities of rethinking admissions for increasing diversity in STEM. Drawing on more than five years of research that includes extensive observations of admission committees in action, Posselt will reveal how professors create and negotiate the meaning of merit as they evaluate applicants and work daily with their students. She will also show how departments that improve diversity through admissions and recruitment, but that lack strong mentoring relationships, may struggle to maintain gains serving underrepresented populations.

The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule.

Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Program Coordinator
Department of Physics
1040K Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
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