Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar voices her support for the right of non-tenure-track faculty to collectively bargain. by Adrianna Kezar At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, we firmly believe that public engagement is a responsibility of scholars and part of quality scholarship. With the recent news about the challenges adjunct faculty unions are facing at USC and at other institutions […]
A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured research on non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar. Patch writes: First, we have to let NTT faculty tell their own stories in their own words. Sounds easy, but research by Adrianna Kezar and others shows that most studies of NTT faculty are not conducted by NTT faculty themselves. Nor […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted about the reasons behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal in an Associated Press article titled “University of Scandal, Corruption? USC at core of bribe plot,” published in a number of major newspapers: William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education, said the current crisis is tied to [former USC president] Nikias’ “stage-managed” hiring of […]
This op-ed — authored by Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt, along with fellow USC Rossier professors Morgan Polikoff and Jerome A. Lucido — was originally published in The Conversation on March 15, 2019. * The most damaging myth in American higher education is that college admissions is about merit, and that merit is about striving for – and earning – academic […]
A Pullias Center report titled National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time, which tracks the growing percentage of non-tenure-track faculty on college and university campuses, was recently featured in an op-ed by Richard A. Greenfield in Inside Higher Ed: The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty members has steadily declined. A 2013 study by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of […]
Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about Versatile Ph.D., a popular career platform owned by the foundation behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal: Julie Posselt, associate professor of education at the University of Southern California — which is among the institutions targeted in the admissions fraud case — wrote an eye-opening 2016 book about the graduate admissions process. (Posselt also […]
Colleges and universities are using gamification to engage Gen Z students, and the Pullias Center is at the forefront of this innovative trend. Today, Education Dive featured the Charge On campaign, a digital effort conceived by the Pullias Center’s Digital Equity in Education team and the nonprofit GetSchooled to decrease summer melt and improve first-year persistence rates at California State University, […]
Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Nature about the American Astronomical Society’s push to recruit and retain more students from under-represented groups in PhD programs. The society, which represents 8,000 astronomers across 57 nations, offers recommendations in the final report of a task force on diversity and inclusion in astronomy graduate education…. The proposals … include input from experts in STEM graduate education. […]
What are the benefits and challenges of Advanced Placement programs in high schools? An interview on this topic with Pullias research assistant Suneal Kolluri aired today on KJZZ Phoenix, an NPR station in Phoenix, Ariz. Kolluri’s research interests include college access and persistence for low-income youth and underrepresented youth of color, specifically how K-12 schools can promote equitable interactions between diverse […]
Two Pullias Center faculty members were featured in a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities. Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the USC Rossier School of Education, and Darnell Cole, an associate professor of education at USC Rossier, both spoke at the University of Southern California’s Admissions, Race and Identity conference. […]