community college – Pullias Center

Supporting Achievement: Basic Needs Assistance Program at a Community College

Soumya Mishra, Tatiana Melguizo, Gary Painter (Sol Price Center for Social Innovation) Pullias Center for Higher Education (2023) The team at University of Southern California’s Pullias Center at the Rossier School of Education and Sol Price Center for Social Innovation designed a mixed-methods evaluation that includes document analysis, interviews with administrators and students, short text-based and online surveys, and student-level transcript […]

Tatiana Melguizo and Pullias Center to Study Community College STEM Opportunities with NSF Grant

Non-STEM and STEM math tracks to be studied at LACCD’s Pierce College with a goal of advancing opportunity and equity in STEM participation at community colleges. As community colleges around the country move toward eliminating developmental education, students are increasingly eligible to take a college-level Statistics/Liberal Arts Math (SLAM) OR Business and Science Technology, Engineering and Math (BSTEM) course. This […]

The Logics that Keep Developmental Education Alive in an Age of Reform – Working Paper

Cheryl D. Ching, Elif Yücel, Federick Ngo, Tatiana Melguizo (2022) Developmental education (DE) reform is a national phenomenon. Across the country,policymakers, reform networks, advocacy groups, philanthropic organizations, and others havecalled for fundamental changes in how institutions of higher education prepare students forcollege work (Jaggars & Bickerstaff, 2018). Community colleges are critical to this projectbecause of their outsized role in providing […]

Identifying Institutional Needs for Student Parents in Community Colleges: Recommendation for Successful Policy and Practice

Adrian H. Huerta, Maritza E. Salazar, Edgar F. Lopez, Gabriela Torres, Lauren M. Badajos, Norma A. Lopez Matias Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) Community colleges serve as the primary entry point for many nontraditional student populations. Over 3.8 million students in higher education are student parents (e.g., college students with dependents), and 42% of student parents are enrolled in community […]

Gang Youth and Young Adults Can Go To and Graduate From College

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News adrian huerta community college equity

By Adrian Huerta In December 2021, President Mike Muñoz of Long Beach City College (LBCC) sent me a congratulatory text that we were the recipient of nearly one million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a college access and success program for gang-associated youth and young adults. This grant is the first formal collaboration between the USC […]

Student Parents in Community Colleges: Building Support Systems to Ensure Education Success

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News student parents adrian huerta community college equity

By Adrian Huerta In 2018, my colleague Cecilia Rios-Aguilar at UCLA started a multi-year research project on student parents in community colleges with support from a seed grant from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We sought to understand how student parents make sense of their career and educational experiences in a two-year college. We interviewed […]

USC’s Pullias Center to Focus on Support Systems for Student Parents with New Grant from Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation

March 15, 2022March 18, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News student parents adrian huerta community college equity

Community college student parents experience many struggles and challenges that contribute to being less likely to earn a college degree, credential or certificate, but are more likely to thrive with targeted institutional support systems. The Pullias Center will document the best practices for student parents with support from a grant provided by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation. The study will focus […]

Pullias Center Invitational Conference Highlights Key Successes and Challenges of AB705 Implementation in LACCD

February 17, 2022October 11, 2022 smacphee AB705, Math equity, Pullias Voices AB705 community college equity tatiana melguizo

By Sheryl MacPhee The 3rd annual USC/LACCD Research-Practice Partnership Conference on AB705 brought together more than 50 researchers, faculty, staff, and administrators. Taking place in December 2021, the purpose of this year’s conference was to engage practitioners in a discussion of key findings from the implementation of AB 705 in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). More than 50 […]

USC’s Pullias Center, Price Center for Social Innovation to Collaborate on Project Evaluating Universal Basic Income (UBI) for Community College Students

February 15, 2022February 16, 2022 AB705, Math equity, Pullias News community college equity tatiana melguizo

The University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education, in collaboration with Price Center for Social Innovation, has begun work on a project with Los Angeles Southwest College, part of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). The 18-month research evaluation will focus on a pilot program being conducted by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family […]