Julie Posselt on WORT 89.9: The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions

Pullias faculty memberย Julie Posseltย was interviewed about the many legal strategies used by the wealthy to tilt college admissions decisions in their favor byย WORTย 89.9, a listener-sponsoredย community radioย station in Madison, Wisc. The segment, titled “The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions,” comes on the heels of the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal at USC and other colleges and universities. Listen to the […]

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William G. Tierney in Los Angeles Times: USC has a new president. Now the trustees and faculty have to change

This op-ed โ€” authored by Pullias co-director William G. Tierney โ€” was originally published inย The Los Angeles Timesย onย March 21, 2019. ___ To say USC has had a dramatic couple of years would be an understatement. A drug-using medical school dean, a health center doctor accused of sexual misconduct, President C.L. Max Nikias pushed out under duress, a business school dean […]

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Adrianna Kezar: A Critical time to support non-tenure-track faculty

Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar voices her support for the right of non-tenure-track faculty to collectively bargain. byย Adrianna Kezarย  At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, we firmly believe that public engagement is a responsibility of scholars and part of quality scholarship. With the recent news about the challenges adjunct faculty unions are facing at USC and at other institutions […]

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Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: How to talk to non-tenure-track faculty

A recent guest blog post byย Paula Patch inย Inside Higher Edย featured research on non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty by Pullias co-directorย Adrianna Kezar. Patch writes: First, we have to let NTT faculty tell their own stories in their own words. Sounds easy, but research by Adrianna Kezar and others shows that most studies of NTT faculty are not conducted by NTT faculty themselves. Nor […]

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William G. Tierney in The Sacramento Bee: University of Scandal, Corruption?

Pullias co-directorย William G. Tierneyย was quoted about the reasons behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal in an Associated Press article titled “University of Scandal, Corruption? USC at core of bribe plot,” published in a number of majorย newspapers: William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education, said the current crisis is tied to [former USC president] Nikias’ “stage-managed” hiring of […]

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Julie Posselt in The Conversation: Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions

This op-ed โ€” authored by Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt, along with fellow USC Rossier professors Morgan Polikoff and Jerome A. Lucido โ€” was originally published in The Conversation onย March 15, 2019. * The most damaging myth in American higher education is that college admissions is about merit, and that merit is about striving for โ€“ and earning โ€“ academic […]

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The Delphi Project in Inside Higher Ed: Protecting tenure

A Pullias Center report titledย National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time, which tracks the growing percentage of non-tenure-track faculty on college and university campuses, was recently featured in an op-ed by Richard A. Greenfield inย Inside Higher Ed: The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty members has steadily declined. Aย 2013 studyย by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of […]

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Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: The Admissions scandal and a service for PhDs

Pullias faculty memberย Julie Posseltย was quoted in Inside Higher Edย about Versatile Ph.D., a popular career platform owned by the foundation behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal: Julie Posselt,ย associate professor ofย education at the University of Southern California — which is among the institutions targeted in the admissions fraud case — wrote an eye-opening 2016ย book about the graduate admissions process.ย (Posselt also […]

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Pullias alumna runs 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days for charity

by Jonathan Riggs A runner since 2011, Pullias alumna Shirley Parry long dreamed of running a marathon on each continentโ€”but at a reasonable pace, say, one per year. So how did she end up becoming one of only 138 people toย ever complete the World Marathon Challengeโ€”founded in 2012โ€”of seven marathons on seven continents in seven days? โ€œSomeone told me a […]

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Pullias Center welcomes new faculty member Adrian Huerta

Adrian Huerta, anย expert on college access and equity for boys and men of color, will join the Pullias Center this fall as an assistant professor of education, with a focus on higher education. Currentlyย a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pullias Center, Huerta will transition to his new USC Rossier faculty position in August. In his new role, he will continue […]

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