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AB705 Study and New Report Examines Implementation Progress to Date in Los Angeles Community College District

By Tatiana Melguizo The California Community Colleges (CCC) constitute the key entry point to college for the large majority of Black, Latina/o/x, and Indigenous populations as well as low-income students. As such, it is critical that they provide high-quality instruction along with a robust set of academic and wrap-around supports necessary for the students to fulfill their educational potential and […]

Pullias Researchers Examine English Misalignment of Former English Learners in California Community Colleges

May 26, 2021 pulliasadmin Uncategorized AB705 community college tatiana melguizo

Lost Transitions: The Cost of Inter-sector Misalignment for English Learners in Community Colleges, a new brief from the Pullias Center examines findings from the center’s study of community college students with a native language other than English who built proficiency in English through special support in K-12 public schools. That study showed more than 70% of all college-ready students in […]

Lost Transitions: The Cost of Inter-sector Misalignment for English Learners in Community Colleges

Melguizo, T., Flores, S.M., Velasquez, D., & Carrol, T Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) A brief from the Pullias Center examining findings from the center’s study of community college students with a native language other than English who built proficiency in English through special support in K-12 public schools. Using student records from a large urban school district and […]

New Brief Examines Collegiate Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents

March 30, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News student parents college success adrian huerta community college

The publication is one of a pair of briefs from UC Davis seeking to build broader understanding of the challenges student parents face in higher education. Like a Juggler: The Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents in a California Community College provides findings from a large mixed-method study to explore how student parents navigated community college, received information, and made […]

A Call to reinvest in our community colleges

April 26, 2019 pulliasadmin College access community college tatiana melguizo

Most community colleges students come from the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder, and enter their college studies with hopes of social mobility. Yet these colleges receive much less federal and state funding and spend far less per student than four-year institutions. The effects of this underfunding can be seen in completion rates: Only 38 percent of the 9 million […]

New grant to allow study of Latinx student-parents in community colleges

May 1, 2018August 13, 2018 pulliasadmin Awards, College access, Equity & Diversity adrian huerta community college latinx

Midterms and class presentations can stress out many college students, but some higher education aspirants have much heavier responsibilities on top of their coursework. Student-parents also often have to juggle jobs and childrearing duties — and many in this population have the additional challenges of coming from a low-income household, being a first-generation college student, or dealing with racial or […]

National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success This report is a review of changes in the number and proportions of non-tenure-track faculty as a segment of the professoriate over the past 40 years, including differences by sector and discipline. Categories: Delphi Project

Changing Faculty Workforce Models

Adrianna Kezar In this TIAA-CREF Insitute paper, Kezar describes the trends that have led to the dramatic change in faculty workforce models and outlines several new models that have emerged. Categories: Delphi Project

Unbundling Versus Designing Faculty Roles

American Council on Education’s Presidential Innovation Laboratory (2014) This paper, which is a part of PIL’s Presidential Innovation Paper series, explores current conversations about the changing role of college and university faculty, the so-called “unbundling” or “disaggregation” of the faculty role. The editor acknowledges and thanks Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke, and Daniel Maxey for their contributions toward this paper. Categories: Delphi Project

Report of the Task Force to Recommend Best Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Instructional Faculty

California State University, Dominguez Hills (2018) This report presents a strong example of a policy-guiding document for campuses considering making changes to support non-tenure-track faculty, or campuses that have already begun. It presents the purpose, methods, process, and results of the task force’s evaluation process. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success, Policymaking, Guides