Pullias Center for Higher Education (2018) High schools today have a unique challenge: to equip students with the knowledge and tools they need to prepare for, apply to and enroll in college—all while proving them with digital resources and skills essential for the 21st century. This guide by the Pullias Center’s Digital Equity in Education team provides a general overview of what a […]
Samantha Bernstein-Sierra, Zoë Corwin (2018) This document gives a brief background on the Pullias Center’s FITW study, introduces the data challenges they encountered during the study, and presents four possible causes of these challenges based on interview and survey data. Categories: Digital Equity, College Access
Pullias Center for Higher Education and Get Schooled (2018) Many digital tools aimed at helping high school students move on to college have been developed in recent years. But which tools are readily available and appropriate, especially for low-income students? This report offers a handy list, with descriptions of available tools. Created by USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and […]
When you have an important deadline, do you buckle down at your office computer? Or venture to a café with wifi, toting a laptop? Do you spell check? Share drafts with colleagues via Dropbox or Google docs? What if you had to do it all on your smartphone? And how would your work unfold if you didn’t have access to […]
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2017) This is a follow-up report to “From Pre to Post: Putting the Data Pieces Together” (October 2016) where we presented interim findings from data collection with students and teachers at a select group of treatment schools in the randomized controlled trial study (a rigorous research design preferred by the U.S. Department of Education). Categories: […]
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2016) The Pullias Center presents a summary of the findings from a 2015 pre-Challenge survey. Categories: Digital Equity, College Access, Student Success
Zoë Corwin, Marie Groark, Keith Frome (2015) A discussion of useful online tools, challenges, and potential ways to use technological innovations to increase college-going and completion rates. Categories: Digital Equity, College Access
William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin (2015) A monograph about the Pullias Center’s project to develop and disseminate a college application game in schools across California through a Web-based platform. The project offers schools online tools to actively engage students in preparing for college. Categories: Digital Equity, College Access
William G. Tierney, Lisa Garcia (2014) A report on the challenges and results of a decade of hosting the Increasing Access via Mentoring (I AM) program, which details what is necessary to maintain a successful mentoring program and what others can do to enable America’s youth to gain access to college. Categories: College Access, I AM
Joint project of the Pullias Center for Higher Education (2014) A brief report on the convening of thought leaders in the fields of financial literacy and college access, identifying roadblocks to and potential strategies for improving the financial capability of California’s students. Categories: College Access