The webinar will be facilitated by Pullias Center Alumni Award winners Raquel M. Rall (UC Riverside) and Antar Tichavakunda (UC Santa Barbara) who were awarded a Pullias Center 2022 Alumni Award to support racial equity-related research and projects. What is Critical Race Theory (CRT)? This oft-misunderstood theory has elicited strong responses and moral panic, with some researchers suggesting that CRT […]
Dominican University of California and Montgomery College, winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, detail their programs designed to support adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty in new case studies. New publications that detail the Delphi Award-winning programs created and implemented by Dominican University of California (Dominican) and Montgomery College (MC) are now available for free download on the Pullias Center’s website. Titled […]
By Royel M. Johnson As racial inequities in education deepen — due in part to the current COVID-19 public health crisis, growing economic challenges, and state-sanctioned anti-Black violence — efforts to increase the use of research evidence in policymaking takes on heightened importance. Specifically, use of rigorous research that is anchored in critical and transformative paradigms is key to the […]
Dominican University of California and Montgomery College in Maryland Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty. The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2022. Dominican […]
The Pullias Center welcomes Dwuana Bradley to our faculty! Dr. Bradley brings more than 10 years of experience in qualitative research methodologies and is a former McNair Scholar. Her research examines the ways in which anti-Black sentiment perpetually undergirds the drivers and levers of federal, state, and institutional policies across the P-20 pipeline in ways that (un)intentionally reify the social […]
New Reports and Webinars Explore Accountability, Roles in SEL and Capacity Building Over the past two years, Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Elizabeth Holcombe, former graduate student Jude Paul Dizon (now faculty at Rutgers University), along with grad students Jordan Harper and Natsumi Ueda, have been working on a next phase study of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL). […]
Center Launches Much Needed New Study with $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant Who are higher education faculty in the U.S.? This may seem like a simplistic question, but the reality is that, on a national level, we don’t really know. It’s been nearly two decades since there has been nationally representative data collected about faculty, with the last National […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education asked the Center’s alumni to submit proposals for research projects that explore racial equity and inclusion in higher education, with $5,000 presented to each of the three winning proposals. For the second time, the Pullias Center for Higher Education’s Alumni Awards has again selected inspiring and innovative projects that focus on promoting deeper understandings […]
Dr. Adrian H. Huerta leads the nationwide qualitative study that focuses on improving support systems for student parents. A new report that features the myriad ways that community colleges around the country support their student parent populations — as well as what can be improved — has just been released by the USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, part of […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the Pullias Center for Higher Education $1.5 Million to develop and pilot a national survey that will provide a provide a contemporary understanding of postsecondary faculty in the United States. The grant, given by the NSF’s EHR Core Research program within their Human Resource Development division, will fund the Faculty, Academic Careers and […]