45th Pullias Lecture to Navigate Higher Education’s Challenging DEI Environment with Panel of Distinguished Speakers

Prestigious Lecture to be held on Thursday, March 28 at California Science Center in Los Angeles Top diversity, equity and inclusion scholars in higher education will come together to discuss the current challenging environment in higher education and offer their historical and policy insights into this issue at the 45th Pullias Lecture, set for Thursday, March 28 at 11am. The […]

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Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE in Minneapolis – November 15-18, 2023

Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE 2023 Thursday, November 2, 10:00 to 11:15am, Virtual Conference Day, Dakota Virtual Room The Complexity of Transformation: Opportunities and Tensions Session Submission Type: Paper Session (Virtual) When Data Doesn’t Do It: Developmental Education Reform in a Community College District Authors: Soumya Mishra, University of Southern California, Elif Asli Yucel, University of Southern California and Cheryl D. Ching, University of Massachusetts […]

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Dr. Royel Johnson named as Co-Editor of AERA’s Educational Researcher Journal

Dr. Royel Johnson, USC Rossier School of Education Associate Professor and Pullias Center faculty member, has been named as a co-editor of Educational Researcher (ER), the journal of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). His appointment is for the 2024-2026 editorial team. “I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead one of the nation’s most influential education journals,” stated […]

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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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