student success – Pullias Center

Twelfth Grade Math and College Access

Leonard Wainstein, Carrie E. Miller, Meredith Phillips, Kyo Yamashiro, Tatiana Melguizo UCLA Los Angeles Education Research Institute (2023) Students’ academic preparation during high school, including the courses they take, influences their educational and economic success in adulthood. Research on the association between course taking and academic or economic outcomes consistently suggests that taking a more advanced math curriculum in high school improves students’ […]

PASS Study Focuses on Student and Practitioner Wellness

By Ralitsa Todorova As well-being becomes an even greater concern for college youth, the Promoting At-Promise Student Success (PASS) project is directing more attention to student and practitioner wellness. The research team is developing innovative mixed methods approaches to better understand students’ experiences and practitioners’ responses. PASS scholars recently published a paper focused on job crafting, with an examination on how practitioner stress […]

PASS Project Researchers Discuss Collaborative Design Study at AERA Annual Conference

April 12, 2021April 19, 2021 marissaaivazis Pullias News PASS project college success aera student success tslc

Representatives from the Pullias Center, the University of Nebraska, and the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation participated in a special Division J Vice Presidential Session at the annual gathering to discuss their research methods. The Promoting At-Promise Student Success Project (PASS), formerly known as the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities (TSLC) Study, is a multi-year, mixed methods study conducted by the Pullis […]

Tatiana Melguizo: Charting a Path Away from Developmental Education Starts in California

January 21, 2021 pulliasadmin Math equity, Pullias Voices AB705 math equity student success tatiana melguizo

The Pullias Center’s Tatiana Melguizo discusses her research team’s dive into California’s historic AB705 legislation and why community colleges across the country should pay attention. The California community college system has had to deal with two major developments in the past two years. First, the state passed Assembly Bill 705 (AB705), which required colleges to place students directly in transfer-level […]

The State of Student Transition and Success in Higher Education

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 marissaaivazis Pullias News student transition student success transition programs

Dallin George Young, Assistant Director for Research and Grants at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, draws from the center’s data for an in-depth look at the present and future of student transition and success in higher education. The idea that new students need support during their transition to college is not a new […]

40th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience to take place virtually on February 15-19, 2021

December 14, 2020December 15, 2020 marissaaivazis Pullias News student transition student success

Registration is now open for the 40th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience, which will be held virtually this February 15-19, 2021. The early registration deadline is January 13, 2021. This conference is designed to provide higher education professionals a comfortable and welcoming environment to share their experiences, ideas, tools, and research critical to the learning, development, and success of […]

Leading After a Racial Crisis: Weaving a Campus Tapestry of Diversity and Inclusion

Sharon Fries-Britt and Adrianna Kezar (2020) A report from the American Council on Education (ACE) on research exploring University of Missouri’s progress with diversity, equity, and inclusion in the years following the 2015-16 racial crisis on campus. Note: This document is hosted on the ACE website. Download from ACE Categories: Institutional Culture, Student Success, Racial Equity

Five Years In: Reflections on Studying a Comprehensive College Transition Program

May 27, 2020April 12, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices PASS project PASS student success tslc

For the past five years, a team of Pullias Center researchers have been engaged in the Promoting At-Promise Student Success (PASS) project, a large mixed methods study of the Thompson Scholar Learning Community (TSLC) program at three of the University of Nebraska campuses. In addition to a five-year scholarship, the TSLC program provided two years of comprehensive support for approximately […]

Pullias Center Researchers Examine Student Engagement Through the Lens of Comprehensive College Transition Programs

May 27, 2020April 12, 2021 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias News PASS project PASS kc culver student success tslc

Comprehensive college transition programs (CCTP), which provide academic and social support for at-promise students as they transition to college and begin their academic journey, are gaining traction as a systematic approach to supporting the students’ learning, development, and college success. For the last 5 years, a team of researchers at the Pullias Center have been looking to gain a crucial […]

Selected Research on Connections between Non-Tenure-Track Faculty and Student Learning (2020)

Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the annotated bibliography is designed to highlight correlations between the working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty and the outcomes and experiences of their students. Categories: Delphi Project