Equity for Community College Students | Background | Current Projects and Past and Related Projects
Background
The Pullias Center is at the forefront of research aimed at promoting innovative and effective approaches with the goal to improve equity in higher education. Our research and analysis working with community colleges supports students with a focus on historically-marginalized students to ensure access, increased retention and completion rates, and equity for all students in California and across the country.
Community college leaders and practitioners play critical roles in spearheading, facilitating and supporting systemic change efforts on their campuses. Their input and guidance are imperative to address the increasingly complex problems facing community colleges and community college students.
Current Projects
College Futures Foundation Baccalaureate Program Study
The College Futures Foundation Baccalaureate Program Study aims to support the development of a racial equity framework for Community College Baccalaureate Programs (CCBP) in California.
The LBCC Phoenix Scholars Project
USC‘s Pullias Center and Long Beach City College will collaborate on a new program that will promote and support higher education efforts for gang-associated youth in the greater Long Beach area for the next three years, funded by a Department of Education grant.
Increasing Community College STEM Opportunities
Funded by the National Science Foundation, this project aims to remediate racial, gender and class tracking in community college math pathways in order to advance opportunity and equity in STEM participation.
AB705 Research-Practice Partnership with LACCD
A project that strives to understand the institutional barriers that are common in developmental education, document their consequences, and work with educators to change practice.
The Basic Needs Assistance (BNA) Evaluation Project at LACCD
A partnership between the Pullias Center and the Price Center for Social Innovation to evaluate a pilot program conducted by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation that is providing basic needs assistance to community college students at LACCD’s Southwest College.
Past and Related Projects
Support Systems for Student Parents in Community Colleges
The report focuses on student parents in two-year colleges to understand how institutions support and engage with equitable practices and resources. The Pullias Center documents the best practices for student parents with support from a grant provided by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation.
Math Pathways Project
A study of the educational pathways from middle school into college of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Improving Math Placement
A study to improve math instruction and placement policies in developmental math.
Math in Community College
A study to evaluate the effectiveness of developmental math placement policies on student success in community college.
Research Team
Click on the Current Projects above to view the Research Team for each project.