Adrianna Kezar, professor for Higher Education at the University of Southern California and director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, helped facilitate an important workshop in Denver earlier this month. The event brought together positional leaders to reflect on their experience as well as current leadership development literature to define a set of distinctive competencies required to lead scalable […]
An innovative research project conducted by USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, the non-profit Get Schooled, and California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), made the local news in Los Angeles that highlighted the pilot program and featured one of its scholarship winners. CBS News in Los Angeles visited CSUDH to learn more about Charge On and its approach to getting […]
Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is joined by an impressive lineup of high-profile professional skateboarders in a new video that urges the skateboarding community to support a groundbreaking study of skateboard culture by taking the time to complete an online survey. The USC Pullias Center for Higher Education study in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication is funded by the Tony […]
Student turns good fortune into selfless act How this college student spent her Charge On! award money is quite surprising and undeniably heartwarming. Evelyn was awarded a $1,000 prize for her participation in an innovative research project conducted by USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, the non-profit Get Schooled, and California State University, Dominguez Hills. She could have spent her […]
USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication and the Tony Hawk Foundation, recently published a white paper as part of their Beyond the Board: Skateboarding, Schools, and Society study. The white paper provides context for the larger study that entails interviews with over 100 skateboarders in East Los Angeles, Gallup, Detroit, Houston, and the Boston […]
Pullias Center faculty member Tatiana Melguizo is lending her expertise to a national committee with the goal to help students succeed in post-secondary math courses. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine named Melguizo to a committee to plan and conduct a public workshop for stakeholders in math education titled Increasing Success in Developmental Mathematics. As a part of […]
Pullias Center research assistant Theresa E. Hernandez was one of two graduate students from USC to meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to advocate for graduate education last month. Hernandez, along with USC Price PhD candidate Andrew Eisenlohr and USC Vice Provost Sally Pratt, joined about 40 other deans and graduate students to participate in the Council of Graduate Schools’ […]
Most community colleges students come from the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder, and enter their college studies with hopes of social mobility. Yet these colleges receive much less federal and state funding and spend far less per student than four-year institutions. The effects of this underfunding can be seen in completion rates: Only 38 percent of the 9 million […]
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 […]
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 […]