A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable faculty and administrators to bring holistic graduate admissions practices to six California universities. Read a few graduate school mission statements, and you’ll find the words “equity” and “diversity” pop up a lot. In fact, for many universities, equity and diversity have been explicit institutional goals for decades. Yet many graduate education […]
Congratulations to Elizabeth Holcombe, research assistant at the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on August 9, 2018! Titled “Assessment and Teaching Improvement in Higher Education: Investigating an Unproven Link,” Holcombe’s dissertation studies whether research universities’ efforts to assess the knowledge and abilities students gain through their college experiences shapes teaching and learning environments. While […]
Congratulations to Pullias research assistant James Dean Ward (above, center), who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on June 11, 2018! Titled “Exploring Heterogeneous Effects of Performance-Based Funding: Implications for Equity and Policy,” Ward’s dissertation studies the rising popularity in recent years of performance-based funding policies, which tie state funding for public colleges to performance goals, such as the rate at which […]
Congratulations to the four members of the USC Pullias Center of Higher Education who participated in the USC Rossier graduation ceremonies last weekend! Three Pullias research assistants — Elizabeth Holcombe, Antar A. Tichavakunda, and James Dean Ward — were among the the 334 students honored in the doctoral hooding ceremony on May 11. Tichavakunda was the recipient of the USC […]
Congratulations to Pullias research assistants Elizabeth Park and W. Edward Chi, recipients of dissertation fellowships for the 2018-19 school year! Elizabeth Park was awarded the Haynes Lindley Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, given by the Haynes Foundation to support dissertation projects that address economic, social, policy or political problems of the Los Angeles area. She will use the grant funds to pursue […]
Midterms and class presentations can stress out many college students, but some higher education aspirants have much heavier responsibilities on top of their coursework. Student-parents also often have to juggle jobs and childrearing duties — and many in this population have the additional challenges of coming from a low-income household, being a first-generation college student, or dealing with racial or […]
We’re proud to announce Assistant Professor Julie Posselt, researcher at USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and nationally-recognized expert on graduate education, has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Award for 2018 by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Established to honor an individual in the early stages of his or her career no later than 10 years after […]
Drs. Zoe Corwin and William G. Tierney in the Pullias Center for Higher Education have been awarded a $300,000 grant from ECMC Foundation to address how digital tools can significantly impact service provision during the high stakes transition away from remedial education in the California State University system. Starting in January 2018, the Pullias Center – in an-ongoing partnership with the Get Schooled […]
Congratulations to Kezar for winning the Research Achievement Award and to Julie R. Posselt for winning the Promising Scholar/Early Career Award at ASHE. The Awards Reception and Champagne Toast is on November 10, 2017 in Houston Marriott Marquis.