The three-year study, funded by a $2.9 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, will examine how technology can remake the student experience. The Covid-19 pandemic affected why students choose to enroll in the Los Angeles Community College District, how they attend classes, and what they go on to do. Now, the Pullias Center is partnering with LACCD and researchers […]
Royel M. Johnson With support from the Spencer Foundation, my colleagues Liliana Garces, Uju Anya and I, hosted a small national convening at Pennsylvania State University in 2019. The two-day conference, “Envisioning Racial Equity on College Campuses: Bridging Research-to-Practice Gaps for Institutional Transformation” sought to develop strategies for addressing research-to-practice gaps that exist between higher education scholarship and the daily praxis of […]
This May, five Pullias Center doctoral candidates will graduate from the USC Rossier School of Education. We would like to offer our sincerest congratulations to Steve Desir, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Theresa E. Hernandez, Aireale J. Rodgers and Deborah E. Southern as they continue their professional careers. Now, with doctoral degrees in hand, these new grads reflected on their time […]
Join the faculty, researchers and doctoral candidates of USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education presenting at the AERA annual meeting. Make your plans now to attend our sessions: Thursday, April 21, 2022 Disrupting Carceral Logics and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Thu, April 21, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDTFuture Selves: Exploring the Aspirations of Latino Boys From Two Continuation High SchoolsAuthors: Adrian H. Huerta and […]
One focus of the successful California Consortium for Inclusive Doctoral Education (C-CIDE) pilot has been equipping faculty with resources to manage political, motivational, and time costs associated with changing admissions. The project organizes change-ready faculty into a community of practice; provides research, training, and tools in equity-minded holistic review; and facilitates structured discussions that can be delicate for departments to […]
The University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education, in collaboration with Price Center for Social Innovation, has begun work on a project with Los Angeles Southwest College, part of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). The 18-month research evaluation will focus on a pilot program being conducted by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family […]
By Tatiana Melguizo The California Community Colleges (CCC) constitute the key entry point to college for the large majority of Black, Latina/o/x, and Indigenous populations as well as low-income students. As such, it is critical that they provide high-quality instruction along with a robust set of academic and wrap-around supports necessary for the students to fulfill their educational potential and […]
The LBCC Phoenix Scholars will be initiated thanks to U.S. Department of Education grant Long Beach City College (LBCC) and the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education’s Pullias Center for Higher Education will receive $990,000 over the next three years from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to collaborate on a […]
By Joseph Kitchen Before the pandemic, many of the typical learning experiences and programming opportunities offered at colleges and universities were simply platforms that enabled students to build connections, community, and belonging. While institutions commonly seek out programmatic and structural solutions to fostering belonging among students—such as first year seminars or a student activity center for instance—they should not lose […]
By Joseph Kitchen Seeking out connections with students is at the core of another strategy my colleagues and I identified through the Promoting At-Promise Student Success project. Proactive advising outreach and tailored support may offer promising inroads to build relationships with students and foster a sense they are a part of a college community that cares about them and that they are an integral part of […]