Pullias Center 25th Anniversary Reflections: A Beacon in the Fog

It’s almost midnight as a final figure emerges from Waite Phillips Hall on the USC campus.  He would be the last person to be in the offices of the Pullias Center for a while.  The governor had just issued a stay at home order that took effect in under an hour. An unusually low and dense fog had settled in […]

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Video Pairs Tony Hawk with Skateboarding Community in Support of Pullias Study

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is joined by an impressive lineup of high-profile professional skateboarders in a new video that urges the skateboarding community to support a groundbreaking study of skateboard culture by taking the time to complete an online survey.  The USC Pullias Center for Higher Education study in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication is funded by the Tony […]

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Charge On Award Recipient Makes Inspiring Decision

Student turns good fortune into selfless act How this college student spent her Charge On! award money is quite surprising and undeniably heartwarming. Evelyn was awarded a $1,000 prize for her participation in an innovative research project conducted by USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, the non-profit Get Schooled, and California State University, Dominguez Hills. She could have spent her […]

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New Pullias Report: Skateboarding, Schools, and Society

USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication and the Tony Hawk Foundation, recently published a white paper as part of their Beyond the Board: Skateboarding, Schools, and Society study. The white paper provides context for the larger study that entails interviews with over 100 skateboarders in East Los Angeles, Gallup, Detroit, Houston, and the Boston […]

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Pullias Center welcomes 7 new scholars

The Pullias Center for Higher Education is proud to announce the addition of seven new researchers! First, we welcome two new postdoctoral research associates, Román Liera and James Dean Ward. Liera, a qualitative researcher who studies racial equity in student outcomes and faculty participation, works on projects that promote equity in graduate education with Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the […]

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