Pullias Voices – Page 10

Suneal Kolluri in Education Week: Students Need an AP Ethnic Studies Course

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Suneal Kolluri, was originally published in Education Week on August 23, 2018. Access to rigorous, Advanced Placement coursework has expanded significantly over the past decade, but not without serious gripes from some parents, teachers, and media commentators. A popular argument against offering more students the opportunity to take to Advanced Placement courses is that […]

William G. Tierney in The Chronicle of Higher Education: How a Successful Presidency Failed, One Day at a Time

August 9, 2018August 14, 2018 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices william tierney

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 8, 2018. Until his sudden downfall, C.L. Max Nikias enjoyed an extraordinarily successful presidency at the University of Southern California. During his eight-year tenure, he raised over $6 billion in a capital campaign, opening a new campus in record time. […]

Suneal Kolluri in The Washington Post: Seven things research reveals — and doesn’t — about Advanced Placement

July 20, 2018August 14, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices advanced placement suneal kolluri

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Suneal Kolluri, was originally published in The Washington Post’s Answer Sheet on July 19, 2018. The Advanced Placement program is engaged in a tenuous balancing act. The program aims to serve more students from marginalized backgrounds whose schooling experiences have exposed them to few rigorous learning opportunities. At the same time, it seeks to […]

Tatiana Melguizo’s report on community college funding highlighted in Inside Higher Ed

June 18, 2018August 14, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices tatiana melguizo

A timely report about community college funding co-written by Pullias faculty member Tatiana Melguizo received coverage in Inside Higher Ed on June 15, 2018: California’s move toward performance funding for its community colleges could work without harming colleges that enroll large numbers of underserved student groups, according to a new report published Thursday by the Century Foundation, but only if the formula adequately takes into […]

Julie Posselt’s book ‘Inside Graduate Admissions’ reviewed in Contexts

June 15, 2018March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices graduate admissions julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt received yet another rave review for her book, Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Admissions, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Just published in the Spring 2018 issue of Contexts, a quarterly magazine of cutting-edge social research, the review by Northwestern University’s Lauren A. Rivera calls Inside Graduate Admissions “an enthralling read”: Inside Graduate Admissions is […]

James Dean Ward and William G. Tierney: Brown’s plan for community colleges will harm disadvantaged students

June 12, 2018June 21, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices james dean ward william tierney

California’s lawmakers reached an agreement on education funding last Friday, and a key part of the deal is a plan to tie the state funding community colleges receive to measures of student success. In this op-ed, Pullias research assistant James Dean Ward and Pullias co-director William G. Tierney make an urgent argument against the funding changes. ___ In his State […]

William G. Tierney in the Los Angeles Times: As Max Nikias pushed USC to prominence, checks and balances were missing

May 29, 2018May 29, 2018 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Pullias Voices william tierney

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in The Los Angeles Times on May 28, 2018. Scandal has hit the University of Southern California like a hurricane, a perfect academic storm. Such tempests are on the rise in higher education, and universities need to reckon with the conditions that are causing them. Similar forces damaged Penn […]

Theresa E. Hernandez in The Huffington Post: Abolish standardized testing for college admissions

May 23, 2018June 21, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices graduate admissions theresa e hernandez

This op-ed, authored by Theresa E. Hernandez, a research assistant at the Pullias Center, was originally published in The Huffington Post on May 22, 2018. A new study from the National Association for College Admission Counseling provides evidence that test-optional policies ― a variety of policies that allow students not to submit scores on standardized tests like the SAT or GRE […]

Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: Graduate programs need to rethink use of standardized admissions tests

May 7, 2018March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices graduate admissions julie posselt

This op-ed — authored by Julie Posselt, Pullias Center researcher and assistant professor of higher education at University of Southern California, and Casey W. Miller, associate dean for research and faculty affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology — was originally published in Inside Higher Ed on May 7, 2018. This week several admissions experts, through the National Association for College Admission […]

Tatiana Melguizo in Publica: Affirmative Action in universities in Brazil

May 1, 2018May 30, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices tatiana melguizo

Pullias Center researcher Tatiana Melguizo‘s research on the effect of affirmative action policies in higher education in Brazil was featured by Publica, a Portuguese-language agency of investigative journalism in Brazil, on Jan. 26, 2018: A outra pesquisa foi realizada pelo professor Wainer, da Unicamp, e por Tatiana Melguizo, professora associada da Escola de Educação Rossier, na Universidade do Sul da Califórnia. Ela também usa […]