By Royel M. Johnson As racial inequities in education deepen — due in part to the current COVID-19 public health crisis, growing economic challenges, and state-sanctioned anti-Black violence — efforts to increase the use of research evidence in policymaking takes on heightened importance. Specifically, use of rigorous research that is anchored in critical and transformative paradigms is key to the […]
The three-year study, funded by a $2.9 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, will examine how technology can remake the student experience. The Covid-19 pandemic affected why students choose to enroll in the Los Angeles Community College District, how they attend classes, and what they go on to do. Now, the Pullias Center is partnering with LACCD and researchers […]
Royel M. Johnson With support from the Spencer Foundation, my colleagues Liliana Garces, Uju Anya and I, hosted a small national convening at Pennsylvania State University in 2019. The two-day conference, “Envisioning Racial Equity on College Campuses: Bridging Research-to-Practice Gaps for Institutional Transformation” sought to develop strategies for addressing research-to-practice gaps that exist between higher education scholarship and the daily praxis of […]
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 […]
Dr. Adrian H. Huerta, Assistant Professor in the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious 2022 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Huerta, who joined Pullias/Rossier in 2019, is one of 25 Fellows selected by NAEd out of an extremely competitive pool of 258 […]
Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, USC University Professor and Dean’s Professor of Education and Engineering, recently announced his retirement after a distinguished 66 year career. Dr. Slaughter joined USC Rossier in 2010, and also holds a joint appointment at the Viterbi School of Engineering. His education research has been in the areas of higher education leadership, diversity and inclusion in higher […]
By Zoë Corwin A year ago, I wrote about a new participatory action research study (PAR) we had just launched through the Pullias Center called Mattering in the Margins: Skateboarders’ Stories of Mental Health Challenges and Opportunities. The study expanded on findings from a prior national study intended to better understand the experiences of youth who skateboard called Beyond the […]
This May, five Pullias Center doctoral candidates will graduate from the USC Rossier School of Education. We would like to offer our sincerest congratulations to Steve Desir, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Theresa E. Hernandez, Aireale J. Rodgers and Deborah E. Southern as they continue their professional careers. Now, with doctoral degrees in hand, these new grads reflected on their time […]
In 2018, USC Associate Professor Julie Posselt saw a pressing need for a scalable, sustainable system for faculty to learn about basic issues of inequality and justice in graduate education. Posselt believed this type of system was necessary for advancing racial equity and diversity, and could serve as a catalyst for systemic and cultural change in doctoral education. Soon, the California […]
Join the faculty, researchers and doctoral candidates of USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education presenting at the AERA annual meeting. Make your plans now to attend our sessions: Thursday, April 21, 2022 Disrupting Carceral Logics and the School-to-Prison Pipeline Thu, April 21, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDTFuture Selves: Exploring the Aspirations of Latino Boys From Two Continuation High SchoolsAuthors: Adrian H. Huerta and […]