ACE and the TIAA Institute will host a webinar on Sept. 28 at 1:00 pm EDT with college and university presidents and higher education scholars to learn about their perspectives on and reactions to the key findings of the American College President Study 2017 (ACPS). Adrianna Kezar, Professor and Co-Director of the Pullias Center, will be one of the speakers.
The announcement by the Attorney General that the Republican Administration will end the Deferred Action for Early Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has created a great deal of uncertainty for the nearly 800,000 individuals who have filed for DACA. Approximately half of the 800,000 have been enrolled in a postsecondary institution in the United States, so the consequences are particularly important […]
Co-Directors Tierney & Kezar, together with the Center’s faculty, researchers, and staff issue a plea to congress to enact legislation that will protect DACA students. Letters were sent to CA congress as well as nationwide attorney generals and key congressional members. See the letter.
William G. Tierney discusses the new USC village and the unsettling campus atmosphere in a recent issue of University World News.
Adrianna Kezar received a grant from The Teagle Foundation to support two national annual awards for campuses that create best practices in faculty work that support student success. PRESS RELEASE: JUNE 23, 2017 Adrianna Kezar, Professor, University of Southern California, co-Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and Director, The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success received a […]
Research faculty at the Rossier School of Ed offer their expectations in five key principles for the new Secretary of Education.
Pullias Center co-directors William Tierney and Adrianna Kezar, along with other directors of higher education centers, issued priorities for education in the United States in a memo to Jerry Falwell Jr., chair of the Task Force on Higher Education Reform . The memo describes the role of the federal government in addressing seven keystone challenges now confronting higher education. Co-signatories […]
New book by Pullias researchers highlights the need for new faculty models Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century: Moving to a Mission-Oriented and Learner-Centered Model Edited by Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Maxey Contributions by Daniel Maxey, Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Ann E. Austin, Andrea G. Trice, William T. Mallon, Arleen Arnsparger, Joanna Drivalas, Malcolm Brown, KerryAnn O’Meara, Lauren DeCrosta, Richard Allan Gillman, Nancy Hensel, David A. Salomon, William Plater, R. Eugene Rice, Leslie Gonzalez, Aimee LaPointe Terosky ___ Order […]
Adrianna Kezar, Dan Maxey, and Elizabeth Holcombe have summarized the results of a national survey of college faculty, outlining the shared vision for the future of the faculty role in their latest report. Download the report.
