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USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education Announces 2023 Delphi Award Winners

August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 morishernandez Awards, Changing faculty, Pullias News pullias news adrianna kezar delphi award delphi project equity

Loyola Marymount University and University of Arizona Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the 2023 Delphi Award. Loyola Marymount University in Los […]

Case Studies Highlight 2022 Delphi-Award Winning Programs to Support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 smacphee Awards, Changing faculty, Pullias News pullias news Delphi Award Case Studies delphi award delphi project

Dominican University of California and Montgomery College, winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, detail their programs designed to support adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty in new case studies. New publications that detail the Delphi Award-winning programs created and implemented by Dominican University of California (Dominican) and Montgomery College (MC) are now available for free download on the Pullias Center’s website. Titled […]

“Moving Toward One Faculty” at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Natsumi Ueda, Jordan Harper, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) As student enrollment increases, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)’s strategic plan calls for retaining more diverse faculty and improving work environments and experiences of fixed-term-track (FTT) faculty, the new name given to non-tenure-track faculty at UTSA, to better support student learning and engagement. The campus engaged […]

Improving Job Stability and Career Pathways for Lecturers Through Collective Bargaining at the University of California

Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) University Council-American Federation of Teachers (UC-AFT)/University of California (UC) Unit 18 faculty achieved a historic win with their new collective bargaining agreement effective for 2021-2026. Their efforts focused on improving lecturers’ job stability and career pathway revisions. Their bargaining campaign theme was “faculty equity — student success,” drawing an inextricable link between […]

Supporting Adjuncts from a Distance: Adjuncts as Subject Matter Experts & Valued Members of the Northcentral University Community

Jordan Harper, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) Northcentral University (NCU), a 100% online, nonprofit institution, declared part-time adjunct faculty as vital actors in carrying out their mission for student success. This realization and subsequent declaration prompted NCU to initiate a task force to explore the working conditions and challenges adjunct faculty face. The task force was comprised […]

Investing in Part-time Faculty at Montgomery College

Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) Montgomery College (MC)’s The Institute for Part-Time Faculty Engagement and Support (IPTFES) was created in 2015 and pioneered by the late Dr. Antonio “Tango” Thomas. IPTFES was created to expand, improve and build upon policies and practices that support part-time faculty (PTF), which MC recognizes as essential members of the campus community […]

Greater Stability and Inclusion for Part-time and Full-time Faculty at Dominican University of California

Jordan Harper, Natsumi Ueda Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) Dominican University of California (Dominican) has a significant number of non-tenure-track faculty with 32 full-time term faculty (FTTF) and 204 part-time adjunct faculty (PTTF). Faculty off the tenure-track contribute meaningfully to its more than 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Dominican has an institutional mission to develop ethical leaders and […]

2022 Delphi Award Winners Announced

September 14, 2022November 1, 2022 smacphee Changing faculty, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News adrianna kezar delphi award delphi project equity

Dominican University of California and Montgomery College in Maryland Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty. The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2022. Dominican […]

Putting a “FACE” on Faculty: Pullias Launches Ambitious National Study of Faculty

September 6, 2022October 12, 2022 smacphee Changing faculty, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News delphi adrianna kezar delphi project equity kc culver racial equity

Center Launches Much Needed New Study with $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant Who are higher education faculty in the U.S.? This may seem like a simplistic question, but the reality is that, on a national level, we don’t really know. It’s been nearly two decades since there has been nationally representative data collected about faculty, with the last National […]

USC’s Pullias Center Awarded $1.5 Million from the National Science Foundation to Develop and Test National Survey on Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments

June 10, 2022October 11, 2022 smacphee Awards, Changing faculty, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News, Pullias Voices, STEM reform pullias news adrianna kezar delphi project kc culver

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the Pullias Center for Higher Education $1.5 Million to develop and pilot a national survey that will provide a provide a contemporary understanding of postsecondary faculty in the United States. The grant, given by the NSF’s EHR Core Research program within their Human Resource Development division, will fund the Faculty, Academic Careers and […]