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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A New vision for the Pullias Center

Big changes are happening at the Pullias Center in 2019. Currently co-directed by William G. Tierney, University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and Adrianna Kezar, Dean’s Professor of Higher Education, the Pullias Center will enter a new phase on June 30, 2019 when Tierney steps down as co-director, before retiring on December 31, 2019. At that time, Kezar will step [...]
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Zoë B. Corwin on KPCC and LAist: Can This Social Game Keep Struggling Students In College?

Pullias Center researchers debuted an innovative digital initiative to bolster first-year persistence at California State University, Dominguez Hills last fall. Called Charge On!, the social campaign is now starting to get initial data—and received coverage on KPCC and LAist, with quotes from Pullias faculty member Zoë B. Corwin, the lead researcher on this project: Charge On reached a milestone last week. On […]

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Zoë B. Corwin in Education Dive: How colleges are using gamification to engage students

Colleges and universities are using gamification to engage Gen Z students, and the Pullias Center is at the forefront of this innovative trend. Today, Education Dive featured the Charge On campaign, a digital effort conceived by the Pullias Center’s Digital Equity in Education team and the nonprofit GetSchooled to decrease summer melt and improve first-year persistence rates at California State University, […]

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Zoë B. Corwin in The Washington Post: Academic boot camp prepares first-generation college students

Zoë B. Corwin, a research associate professor at the Pullias Center,  was quoted in an article in The Washington Post about summer bridge programs for first-generation college students: Successful summer programs for first-generation students need to make sure undergraduates feel cared for and connected, said Zoe Corwin, an associate professor with the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. For […]

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Neftalie Williams featured in USC Trojan Family

USC Trojan Family highlights the work of Pullias Center research affiliate Neftalie Williams and collaborator on Skateboarding, Schools, and Society, a research project funded by the Tony Hawk Foundation led by Pullias faculty member Zoë B. Corwin A new study at USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education has [Pullias Center research associate Neftalie] Williams partnering with Zoe Corwin, research associate professor at the USC Rossier […]

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New research: Digital college guidance, STEM support programs, women leaders in higher ed

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle college access in the digital age, support programs for STEM students and challenges for women leaders in higher education. Read the abstracts and excerpts for these papers and find out more about the projects that inspired them: Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital […]

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Pullias Center launches first large-scale survey on skateboarding youth

Recent movies like mid90s, Minding the Gap and Skate Kitchen have highlighted the life-changing effect skateboarding and skate culture can have on youth. Now, a research project from the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education aims to pin down on a more concrete level the impact skateboarding has on young people—through a national survey of skateboarding youth. Launched Nov. 2, this […]

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