The Long Beach City College (LBCC) Phoenix Scholars Program: Supporting gang-involved youth and young adults into postsecondary education. By Adrian H. Huerta The LBCC Phoenix Scholars, a partnership with Long Beach City College (LBCC) created in 2022, is designed to increase college access and success for young people who are, or have been, associated with local gangs. The program’s goal […]
Pullias Center’s Tatiana Melguizo partnered with UCLA’s LAERI on a new report High school students interested in benefitting from the earning gains of pursuing a STEM career should have access to rigorous calculus classes in 12th grade, according to a new report by the Los Angeles Education Research Institute at UCLA (LAERI). In the second and final report in the […]
USC’s Pullias Center and Sol Price Center for Social Innovation report provides timely evidence that additional funds help students achieve academic goals A new report from USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation suggests that when high-need community college students are provided with additional financial aid, they have stronger academic outcomes than their […]
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 […]
USC’s Pullias Center, UCLA SE&IS and UC Davis School of Education are recipients of grant aimed to support the development of a racial equity framework for Community College Baccalaureate Programs (CCBP) in California. Dr. Adrian H. Huerta of USC’s Pullias Center, along with UCLA SEIS’s Cecilia Rios-Aguilar and UC Davis’ Marcela Cuellar, have been awarded a $275,000 grant from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]