college access and success

LAERI Research Report: 12th Grade Math and College Success

Leonard Wainstein, Carrie E. Miller, Meredith Phillips, Kyo Yamashiro, Tatiana Melguizo UCLA Los Angeles Education Research Institute (2023) In a new report, Twelfth Grade Math and College Success, LAERI-affiliated researchers build on their work in Twelfth Grade Math and College Access and examine the impact of taking a math course in twelfth grade on L.A. Unified students’ science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) course taking […]

New Research Demonstrates Success and Sketches Roadmap for Supporting and Engaging Generation Z in Higher Education through Digital Strategies

The USC Pullias Center for Higher Education’s partnership with Get Schooled studied digital strategies for improving college access and success among senior-year high school and first year college students from minoritized backgrounds. Findings, insights, and recommendations from two multi-year studies are now available across a newly-released research report and pair of research briefs. Within the last decade, the college access […]

Bolstering First-Year Success Through Digital Tools

Tattiya Maruco, Zoë B. Corwin, Christine Rocha, and Maria Romero-Morales (2020) To address the challenges of fostering a sense of belonging and ultimately improving academic success, USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Get Schooled Foundation partnered with California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) to create an online tool called Toros Charge On! designed to assist students in […]

Integrating Digital Tools into Financial Aid Outreach and Support

Zoë B. Corwin, Tattiya Maruco, Christine Rocha, and Maria Romero-Morales (2020) This brief outlines approaches for incorporating digital tools to increase Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates at high schools across California and is intended to stimulate discussion about how to better serve at-promise students in securing financial aid for postsecondary education through the use of […]

Texting to Increase College Access and Success: Lessons from the Field

Zoë B. Corwin, Tattiya Maruco, Maria Romero-Morales, and Christine Rocha (2020) This brief shares outcomes and lessons learned from implementing the texting component of a digital strategy designed to boost first year persistence and success at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Categories: College Access, Digital Equity, Student Success

Examining the Potential of Education IDAs

Adrianna Kezar (2009) Pullias Center for Higher Education The overarching goal for this project was to examine the potential for increasing Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) use for educational purposes and to explore higher education’s involvement with IDAs, as well as the potential for greater participation. The three main objectives for the project were to: 1) describe and understand current education […]