For the past five years, a team of Pullias Center researchers have been engaged in the Promoting At-Promise Student Success (PASS) project, a large mixed methods study of the Thompson Scholar Learning Community (TSLC) program at three of the University of Nebraska campuses. In addition to a five-year scholarship, the TSLC program provided two years of comprehensive support for approximately […]
Ronald E. Hallett, Professor of Education in the LaFetra College of Education at the University of La Verne and a research associate at the Pullias Center of Higher Education, reflects on the Pullias Center’s 25th Anniversary in this fifth of a series of essays marking the occasion. My research career began in the Pullias Center. I started as a research […]
For the last 20 years, I have volunteered in schools and community centers, served as a mentor to young men of color, been invited to speak in middle and high school classrooms, and have tried to understand how we can get more men of color into, and graduated from, college. All this to say that increasing access and success to […]
It’s almost midnight as a final figure emerges from Waite Phillips Hall on the USC campus. He would be the last person to be in the offices of the Pullias Center for a while. The governor had just issued a stay at home order that took effect in under an hour. An unusually low and dense fog had settled in […]
Laura W. Perna, Centennial Presidential Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, reflects on the Pullias Center in this third of 12 anniversary reflections throughout 2020 marking the center’s 25th anniversary The opportunity to collaborate with the Pullias Center early in my career has had a lasting influence on my efforts to improve equity and […]
Change comes slowly in higher education, or so the best theory and evidence say. Yet there are exceptions to every rule, and exogenous shocks such as protests, wars, natural disasters and, as we are now seeing, a global pandemic can compel decisive, transformational changes that colleges, universities, and their members would otherwise resist. Will disruptions and uncertainties of COVID-19 catalyze […]
The current faculty reflects on the Pullias Center in this second of 12 anniversary reflections throughout 2020 marking the center’s 25th anniversary When the Pullias Center first opened its doors 25 years ago as the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, the organization had only 3 people on the team. A quarter century later and the Pullias Center consists of […]
For the past decade and a half my scholarship has been situated in the field of college access and success. Most recently I have been focused on the potential of games, gamification strategies, and social media to promote postsecondary opportunities for at-promise students. The Digital Equity in Education project at the Pullias Center has worked with schools, school districts, non-profits, […]
The research team behind the Beyond the Board study approached the project from a wide range of perspectives based on personal, professional and life experiences. Here is their take on the study that redefined skateboarding culture… Neftalie Williams: As an avid skateboarder and a scholar of skateboarding, it was incredible to be involved in this first of its kind study […]
Miki Vuckovich is the Executive Director of the Tony Hawk Foundation, which provided a generous grant to fund the Pullias Center’s “Skateboarding, Schools, and Society” research. A lifelong skateboarder who met Tony Hawk at their local skatepark when they were teens, Vuckovich believes in the power of skateboarding to introduce youth to the joy and benefits of a healthy active […]