Pullias Center & Rossier School of Education Assistant Professor Adrian H. Huerta wins 2022 ASHE Early Career Award

Dr. Adrian H. Huerta, Assistant Professor at the Pullias Center for Higher Education and the USC Rossier School of Education, has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Award for 2022 by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). The Award was established to recognize an individual whose work embodies “an emerging, significant, and potential for the future of a […]

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Translating Critical Race Research for Evidenced-Based Policymaking

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 […]

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Pullias Center partners with LACCD and researchers from Harvard’s CEPR to study Covid-19 recovery

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 […]

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Connecting Research and Practice for Racial Equity

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 […]

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From Dr. Kezar: Resisting the Gig Economy

There is little notice of or conversation about the significant – perhaps catastrophic — employment changes taking place at colleges and universities.  After decades of ignoring the adjunctification of faculty, we now see the transformation of almost every employment category in higher education – graduate students, postdocs, research faculty, and staff.  These groups are being outsourced, facing contingency and marginalization, just […]

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