View from Venus

5.2 Building Community for Cultural Change with Julie Posselt

Episode Summary

In this week's episode, guest expert, Julie Posselt, Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Professor of Education at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, joins us to talk about her work related to equity and graduate education, mentoring and faculty development, and building community for cultural change. Feel free to share your thoughts and responses with us on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook and tag us @university_of_venus on IG and @UVenus on Twitter or post it on our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/UVenus/ and we will share, retweet, and amplify! Find University of Venus on Instagram @university_of_venus , Twitter @UVenus , and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/UVenus/

Episode Notes

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Our dream vacations
• Equity and graduate education
• Mentoring, wellbeing, and professional development of faculty
• Dynamics of power in our everyday work
• Cultural humility, feminist mentoring, and mutuality
• Gender and racial inequalities in the STEM disciplines
• Institutionalized silence

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Julie Posselt at University of Southern California
• Equity in Graduate Education initiative
• Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education
• Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity: Critical Perspectives for Leadership

Music Credits: Magic by Six Umbrellas

Sound Engineer: Ernesto Valencia