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Julie Posselt’s Cal-Bridge project featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education

November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices graduate admissions graduate education

The Cal-Bridge program, a National Science Foundation-project on which Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt serves as co-principal investigator, was featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is well into her Ph.D. program in physics at the University of California Irvine, and she gives credit to participation in a bridge program that helps underrepresented minority students earn doctoral degrees […]

Adrianna Kezar in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Colleges can recover from racial crisis

November 13, 2018March 24, 2020 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar equity and leadership racial climate

Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education about a new report she co-authored that explores what led to the University of Missouri’s 2015-16 racial crisis: Many campus leaders will simply create a task force and put together a report after a racial crisis because that’s what they believe will resolve the issues at hand, said Adrianna Kezar, a […]

Aireale Rodgers in The TRiiBE: Eve L. Ewing’s ‘Ghosts in the Schoolyard’

October 18, 2018 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices aireale rodgers

This book review, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Aireale Rodgers, was originally published in The TRiiBE on Oct. 18, 2018. This summer, two weeks before I moved to Los Angeles from my native Chicago for graduate school, doctors diagnosed my great-aunt Margie Britten with cancer. Two months later, she went into hospice care without much time left to live. My […]

Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: A Non-Tenure-Track Profession?

October 12, 2018 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about the growing numbers of non-tenure-track faculty at colleges and universities: Some 73 percent of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to a new analysis of federal databy the American Association of University Professors. “For the most part, these are insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic […]

William G. Tierney in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Must Visiting Assistant Professorships Be Career Purgatory?

October 8, 2018 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices william tierney

Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the status of and career prospects for visiting assistant professors: Visiting positions take a variety of forms, says William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California. When he pictures a beneficial visiting position, Tierney thinks of his experiences in visiting fellowships overseas, […]

Adrianna Kezar in The Washington Post: College faculty called on to aid floundering students

October 8, 2018 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar

Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in The Washington Post about how more college professors are being called on to “help head off problems that can derail students”: The faculty’s inexperience in addressing students’ nonacademic problems stems from the evolution of American higher education, said Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California who studies the issue. […]

William G. Tierney in EdSource: California’s next governor has opportunity to set a bold new higher education agenda

September 20, 2018 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias Voices william tierney

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in EdSource on Sep. 20, 2018. The next governor of California has will have two primary responsibilities: uphold economic productivity and lay the foundation for a more prosperous California. And he could accomplish both in one fell swoop — by setting ambitious higher education goals. The connection between economic […]

Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: Renewed Debate About GRE

September 17, 2018October 4, 2018 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices graduate admissions graduate education julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about the University of Pennsylvania philosophy program’s decision to drop its GRE requirement: Julie R. Posselt, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Southern California, is the author of Inside Graduate Admissions. She has urged departments to carefully consider whether they need testing, and whether they are using tests appropriately. […]

William G. Tierney in Inside Higher Ed: Why University Presidents Are (and Aren’t) Losing Their Jobs

September 12, 2018September 12, 2018 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices william tierney

This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in Inside Higher Ed on Sep. 12, 2018. Over the last few years, a startling number of college and university presidents have suddenly lost their jobs. The trustees and faculty members at Pennsylvania State University, Michigan State University and, most recently, the University of Southern California have all seen their presidents resign. Other […]

Tatiana Melguizo interviewed on Democracy’s College podcast

August 27, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices tatiana melguizo

Tatiana Melguizo, a faculty researcher at the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, was recently interviewed about her research and equity-minded approaches to mathematics education by Vilma Mesa, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, on the Democracy’s College podcast on August 21, 2018. I want to say that it’s very important for researchers to really get insights […]