Academic governance & change

New Shared Equity Leadership Report and Webinar Explore Creating Emotionally Supportive Spaces for Campus Teams

June 7, 2023June 9, 2023 smacphee Shared Equity Leadership, Equity & Leadership, Academic governance & change, Equity & Diversity, Events, Pullias News pullias news shared equity leadership adrianna kezar

Pullias Center and American Council on Education (ACE) join together for latest in the Shared Equity Leadership series Shared Equity Leadership is a leadership approach that scales diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) work and creates culture change by connecting individual and organizational transformation. As leaders in higher education increasingly recognize the importance of prioritizing DEI on their campuses, so too […]

New Report Creates Groundbreaking Framework for Supporting Diverse Student Populations in Higher Education

October 3, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Equity & Diversity, Publications, Pullias News ACE adrianna kezar student success

A new report from USC Pullias Center for Higher Education and the American Council on Education (ACE) presents an innovative approach for higher education institutions to better support students from diverse backgrounds. “Creating a Diverse Student Success Infrastructure: The Key to Catalyzing Cultural Change for Today’s Student” discusses how colleges and universities can fulfill a student success agenda through the […]

New research: Lessons from the Jerry Sandusky case, limits of PhD admissions criteria, and more

February 8, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrian huerta julie posselt michael lanford tattiya maruco william tierney

Congratulations to Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney and research associate Raquel M. Rall! Their co-authored article, “Lessons Not Yet Learned: Culture, Governance, and the Jerry Sandusky Case,” received the 2019 Neuner Award from the American Association of University Administrators for the outstanding article in The Journal of Higher Education Management. Other recent works by Pullias researchers tackle a wide range of […]

New research: Changing academic culture, from diversity work to STEM reform

January 3, 2019January 23, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar joseph kitchen julie posselt roman liera stem stem reform william tierney

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle big topics in higher education, such as promoting racial diversity and performing diversity work on college and university campuses, addressing the influence of corporate culture on academic culture, and adapting to changing faculty trends. In addition, new papers tackle STEM education, from summer bridge programs to large-scale reform. Read the abstracts and excerpts for […]

New research: Digital college guidance, STEM support programs, women leaders in higher ed

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar digital equity elizabeth holcombe marissiko wheaton stem stem reform tattiya maruco zoe corwin

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle college access in the digital age, support programs for STEM students and challenges for women leaders in higher education. Read the abstracts and excerpts for these papers and find out more about the projects that inspired them: Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital […]

How Colleges Change: Understanding, Leading, and Enacting Change

June 5, 2018April 19, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Publications adrianna kezar

Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar offers new insights for university leaders and change agents. Available July 31, 2018. The only constant is change, as Heraclitus famously said. Yet fostering and implementing change remains a major challenge for university leaders. How can we make meaningful changes at an institution of higher education? What theories of change should be considered? And on a […]

William G. Tierney in the Los Angeles Times: As Max Nikias pushed USC to prominence, checks and balances were missing

May 29, 2018May 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Pullias Voices william tierney

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in The Los Angeles Times on May 28, 2018. Scandal has hit the University of Southern California like a hurricane, a perfect academic storm. Such tempests are on the rise in higher education, and universities need to reckon with the conditions that are causing them. Similar forces damaged Penn […]

How should higher education research inform public policy and practice?

April 20, 2018May 25, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Equity & Diversity, Publications adrianna kezar william tierney

Pullias co-directors contribute essays to a provocative new collection on scholarship and advocacy. Should higher education scholars remain detached, data-focused researchers — or should they take action to advance social change? A new collection of essays, Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship (Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2018), delves into these and other […]

Envisioning Public Scholarship for Our Time: Models for Higher Education Researchers

March 26, 2018April 19, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Publications adrianna kezar joseph kitchen michael lanford william tierney zoe corwin

Pullias researchers coedit a new book that advocates for bottom-up change. Available July 2018. Preorder from Stylus for a 30% discount with the code EPSPRE. What is the role of a public scholar? A new book proposes a new paradigm of public scholarship for our time, one that shifts from the notion of the public intellectual to the model of […]

The Roles of STEM Faculty Communities of Practice in Institutional and Departmental Reform in Higher Education

November 15, 2017May 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change adrianna kezar

Gehrke and Kezar examine how involvement in four cross-institutional STEM faculty communities of practice is associated with local departmental and institutional change for faculty members belonging to these communities. Read the paper in American Educational Research Journal.