By Adrian Huerta In December 2021, President Mike Muñoz of Long Beach City College (LBCC) sent me a congratulatory text that we were the recipient of nearly one million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a college access and success program for gang-associated youth and young adults. This grant is the first formal collaboration between the USC […]
By Adrian Huerta In 2018, my colleague Cecilia Rios-Aguilar at UCLA started a multi-year research project on student parents in community colleges with support from a seed grant from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We sought to understand how student parents make sense of their career and educational experiences in a two-year college. We interviewed […]
Community college student parents experience many struggles and challenges that contribute to being less likely to earn a college degree, credential or certificate, but are more likely to thrive with targeted institutional support systems. The Pullias Center will document the best practices for student parents with support from a grant provided by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation. The study will focus […]
The University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education, in collaboration with Price Center for Social Innovation, has begun work on a project with Los Angeles Southwest College, part of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). The 18-month research evaluation will focus on a pilot program being conducted by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family […]
The LBCC Phoenix Scholars will be initiated thanks to U.S. Department of Education grant Long Beach City College (LBCC) and the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education’s Pullias Center for Higher Education will receive $990,000 over the next three years from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to collaborate on a […]
By Joseph Kitchen Before the pandemic, many of the typical learning experiences and programming opportunities offered at colleges and universities were simply platforms that enabled students to build connections, community, and belonging. While institutions commonly seek out programmatic and structural solutions to fostering belonging among students—such as first year seminars or a student activity center for instance—they should not lose […]
By Joseph Kitchen Seeking out connections with students is at the core of another strategy my colleagues and I identified through the Promoting At-Promise Student Success project. Proactive advising outreach and tailored support may offer promising inroads to build relationships with students and foster a sense they are a part of a college community that cares about them and that they are an integral part of […]
University of Denver and Worcester Polytechnic Institute detail their programs designed to improve pathways to tenure for adjunct faculty on their campuses. New publications that detail the Delphi Award-winning programs created and implemented by University of Denver and Worcester Polytechnic Institute are now available for free download on the Pullias Center’s website. Titled “Institutionalizing a Culture of Respect for Teaching […]
Postdoctoral Researcher Elizabeth Holcombe and Adrianna Kezar Detail How Shared-Equity Leadership Leads to DEI Support While colleges and universities have worked to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over the last several decades, campuses are still struggling to make meaningful change to their cultures in ways that truly embed DEI in everything they do. The role of leadership in facilitating […]
Key Members of the Pullias Team Share Their Experiences with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Shared Equity Leadership Three grad students at USC’s Rossier School of Education are key members of the team working on the Pullias Center and ACE’s Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) project. Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Jordan Harper and Natsumi Ueda bring their own experiences with diversity to […]