Dr. Adrian H. Huerta leads the nationwide qualitative study that focuses on improving support systems for student parents. A new report that features the myriad ways that community colleges around the country support their student parent populations — as well as what can be improved — has just been released by the USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, part of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of the topics that Dr. Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe, Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer at University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa (UHM), will touch upon during her featured presentation at the 42nd Pullias Lecture on September 15, 2020, is settler colonialism. Her native Hawai’i stands in many ways as an example of the impacts of settler colonialism and Dr. Lipe leads a team […]
“Mommy, do I have to go to college?” While the question itself stopped me in my tracks, what surprised me even more was how much I hesitated before answering my 9-year-old daughter. On the one hand, it should have been an easy “yes.” For starters, we are a family steeped in higher education. Both of my parents, who were first […]
The vast majority of the Pullias Center for Higher Education’s research and reports are dedicated to equity among groups that have experienced oppression in our society. In awareness of recent events and growing support for addressing issues of racial equity, the Pullias Center has created a new webpage that highlights research and resources from the center and its faculty. These […]