Liane Hypolite

A Rossier Dean’s Fellow in the Urban Education Policy PhD program at USC Rossier School of Education, Liane Hypolite was a research assistant at the Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice. She currently is an assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University.

Hypolite worked with Darnell Cole on topics related to college persistence, retention and graduation. Hypolite is interested in understanding racial and economic integration, in addition to social and cultural capital as it relates equity across institutions of higher education. Her research interests include college supports that improve the persistence and graduation of first-generation, low-income, students of color.

Before attending USC, she served as the dean of college and career advising at Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston, Mass., and has also worked at the national college access and success non-profit, Bottom Line, helping students to and through college. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Brandeis University, double majoring in psychology and sociology, and earned her master’s in education policy and management at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Education

• Ed.M. Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2012 — 2013)
• Bachelor of Art Brandeis University (2006 — 2010)
• Boston University (2008 — 2008)

Companies

• Assistant Professor California State Polytechnic University-Pomona (2020)
• Research Fellow USC Annenberg Center for Third Space Thinking (2019)
• Doctoral Candidate USC Rossier School of Education (2016 — 2020)
• Dean of College and Career Advising Codman Academy Charter Public School (2013 — 2016)
• Research Assistant Harvard Law School (2013 — 2016)
• Diversity Education Graduate Intern Harvard University (2012 — 2013)
• Research Intern Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School (2012 — 2013)
• Senior Counselor Bottom Line (2010 — 2012)
• Program Intern Project Joy (2009 — 2010)