By Adrian H. Huerta Many years ago, as a new college student and a man of color, I readily admitted that I needed help to understand how to become successful as an undergraduate student. I was lucky that I found a handful of university staff of color who were invested in my personal and academic success and promoted graduate education […]
The Long Beach City College (LBCC) Phoenix Scholars Program: Supporting gang-involved youth and young adults into postsecondary education. By Adrian H. Huerta The LBCC Phoenix Scholars, a partnership with Long Beach City College (LBCC) created in 2022, is designed to increase college access and success for young people who are, or have been, associated with local gangs. The program’s goal […]
Prestigious Lecture to be held on Thursday, March 28 at California Science Center in Los Angeles Top diversity, equity and inclusion scholars in higher education will come together to discuss the current challenging environment in higher education and offer their historical and policy insights into this issue at the 45th Pullias Lecture, set for Thursday, March 28 at 11am. The […]
How can leaders in undergraduate, graduate, and professional admissions use this moment to create more equitable systems? The recent Supreme Court rulings in SFFA vs. Harvard and SFFA vs. UNC have raised awareness among many that affirmative action was never a sufficient intervention for the myriad barriers to equity ingrained in typical selective admissions processes. The decisions, while disruptive and […]
Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE 2023 Thursday, November 2, 10:00 to 11:15am, Virtual Conference Day, Dakota Virtual Room The Complexity of Transformation: Opportunities and Tensions Session Submission Type: Paper Session (Virtual) When Data Doesn’t Do It: Developmental Education Reform in a Community College District Authors: Soumya Mishra, University of Southern California, Elif Asli Yucel, University of Southern California and Cheryl D. Ching, University of Massachusetts […]
Pullias Center’s Tatiana Melguizo partnered with UCLA’s LAERI on a new report High school students interested in benefitting from the earning gains of pursuing a STEM career should have access to rigorous calculus classes in 12th grade, according to a new report by the Los Angeles Education Research Institute at UCLA (LAERI). In the second and final report in the […]
On Sept 20th, the Embedding Wellness Collective will host Susie Crome from the Ben Raemers Foundation for a conversation entitled Skateboarding & Suicide Prevention: Standing Against Stigmas & Amplifying Assets. This talk is sponsored by the USC Collaboration Fund grant and will include skate industry experts from companies like Nike, Adidas, and Converse. Susie will highlight the transformational work the […]
A Conversation with USC’s Elizabeth Holcombe Over the past three years, the Pullias Center and our partner, the American Council on Education (ACE), have been building an impressive library of work all detailing the concept of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL). Our first two reports, “Shared Equity Leadership: Making Equity Everyone’s Work” and “Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: Four Approaches for Sharing […]
In her ‘provocation’ opinion article in the August/September issue of Change Magazine, Adrianna Kezar posits “Leadership development in higher education remains an under-examined and under-resourced area. Within the higher education sector, leadership has not been the focus of foundation funding for close to 30 years, since the Kellogg Foundation funded the institutional leadership project.” Dr. Kezar continues, “Studies of institutional transformation […]
At our recent USC Rossier School of Education kickoff event for the new academic year, the Pullias Center team received prestigious and well-deserved awards. Congratulations to Research Professor Zoë Corwin, on being selected for this year’s “Excellence in Mentoring” Award. This award is presented to faculty for providing outstanding mentorship to the community of faculty colleagues, students, postdoctoral scholars, fellow […]