A new study illuminates one powerful and effective way to address the STEM worker shortage and lack of diversity: Get students enrolled in bridge programs. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Students who participate in college STEM summer bridge programs are twice as likely to pursue a STEM career, compared with students who don’t. That is according to a new national […]
Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle big topics in higher education, such as promoting racial diversity and performing diversity work on college and university campuses, addressing the influence of corporate culture on academic culture, and adapting to changing faculty trends. In addition, new papers tackle STEM education, from summer bridge programs to large-scale reform. Read the abstracts and excerpts for […]
Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle college access in the digital age, support programs for STEM students and challenges for women leaders in higher education. Read the abstracts and excerpts for these papers and find out more about the projects that inspired them: Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital […]
Tatiana Melguizo will join a team of education researchers and practitioners to investigate students’ educational pathways from middle school to college. Are middle school students placed in honors math more likely to declare STEM majors in college? Do specific high school math courses help struggling students successfully transition to college-level math? Is a high school student who takes financial algebra […]
A new Pullias Center publication shows external groups how to effectively support change and reform in higher education Two months ago, the Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities (AAU) jointly released “Scaling Improvement in STEM Learning Environments: The Strategic Role of a National Organization,” a report assessing AAU’s efforts to reforms of undergraduate STEM teaching and learning on a national level […]
The initiative brings together USC Rossier and more than two dozen professional and academic organizations By Ross Brenneman Research shows that participation by underrepresented groups in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines plummets between undergraduate and graduate studies. A new project looks to take a comprehensive approach to addressing issues that hinder the participation and success of underrepresented students. […]
A study of college transition programs at CSUs details the benefits of comprehensive, integrated support programs for underserved students. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF When college and university departments work together to help first-year STEM students transition to college, students succeed at significantly higher rates. That is what two researchers from the Pullias Center for Higher Education found when they studied CSU […]
A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable faculty and administrators to bring holistic graduate admissions practices to six California universities. Read a few graduate school mission statements, and you’ll find the words “equity” and “diversity” pop up a lot. In fact, for many universities, equity and diversity have been explicit institutional goals for decades. Yet many graduate education […]
When academic and student affairs departments work together, first-year STEM students achieve greater success, a study finds. Full article HTML | Full article PDF A first-generation college student wants to major in math—but enrolls in the wrong course because her academic advisor isn’t familiar with the math sequence. Once classes begin, the student doesn’t understand what faculty office hours are—and so never […]
Are you passionate about education research that’s closely tied to real-life practice? Would you like to be part of a multi-campus team, collaborating with researchers at USC, UCLA and Claremont Graduate University—as well as practitioners at Los Angeles Unified School District and Los Angeles Community College District—to improve public education outcomes? Come work as a postdoctoral scholar at the Pullias Center […]