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Established at the University of Southern California in 1999 as part of the University’s urban initiative, the Center for Urban Education (CUE) leads socially conscious research and develops tools needed for institutions of higher education to produce equity in student outcomes. CUE’s research team pioneered a multi-disciplined inquiry approach that is helping higher education institutions across the country become more accountable to students from underserved racial and ethnic communities. CUE publishes reports and papers on a range of topics related to equity and accountability, the appropriate use of inquiry methods, the transformation of institutional data into useable knowledge, and the role of faculty and administrators in organizational change. CUE is dedicated to doing research that makes a difference.
Estela Mara Bensimon, Co-Director
Alicia Dowd, Co-Director
Center for Urban Education
Seeking Out Success: Dr.
Shaun Harper from the University of Pennsylvania
is undertaking the largest-ever empirical study of Black male undergraduates
to create a new paradigm of how they adapt and succeed in college.
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2007 ASHE Presidential
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The Underestimated Significance of
Practioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student Success by Estela
Mara Bensimon.
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Estela Mara Bensimon: A True Mentor
 Estela Mara Bensimon, USC Rossier School of Education professor and co-director of the Center for Urban Education, was selected as a recipient of the USC Mellon Faculty-to-Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring. read article
2009 ASHE Institutes on Equity and Critical Policy Analysis Fellowships
Five dynamic Institutes, to be held over the summer, are intended to develop greater responsiveness to the problems of racial and ethnic inequality in higher education. The Institutes feature research, publishing and analytical workshops to encourage participants to infuse critical perspectives and utilize diversified research methods in their own scholarship and practice as it relates to postsecondary racial and ethnic equity issues.
For more details about the ASHE Institutes, click here.
Rossier School of Education’s Center for Urban Education presents assessment tools for educational equity at the 5th Annual Tomás Rivera Policy Institute Education Conference
The Center for Urban Education (CUE) at USC’s Rossier School of Education has announced its 5th consecutive year of association with the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) for the 5th Annual Education Conference entitled “Policies, Programs and Practices: Latino Education for a New Era.”
Dowd Named Co-Director of the Center for Urban Education
at USC’s Rossier School of Education
September 2, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) – The University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education today announced the appointment of Dr. Alicia C. Dowd as co-director of the school’s Center for Urban Education (CUE). Since affiliating with the Center in 2005, Dowd has been working on a number of high-profile research projects, including the California Benchmarking Project, funded by grants from the Ford and Hewlett Foundations, that builds on CUE’s landmark Equity Scorecard work.
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Center for Urban Education Receives Ford Foundation Grant to Expand Equity and Accountability Work Within the University of Wisconsin System
August 1, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA) – The Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education announced receipt of a new two-year grant from the Ford Foundation to increase underrepresented students’ access to and transfer from the University of Wisconsin (UW) System’s two-year colleges and Wisconsin Technical Colleges institutions. The Transfer Equity and Accountability Study will build on findings from CUE’s Equity Scorecard work with the UW System and 10 of its four-year colleges.Read More
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