Three years ago, the University of Missouri invited the American Council on Education (ACE) to study what led to the university’s 2015-16 racial crisis and how the institution responded. A new report highlights the progress and initiatives the University has since implemented to navigate and heal racial tensions on-campus, providing useful insight for campuses looking to address issues of racial […]
Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, is participating in a special webinar titled “Race and Crisis at a Crossroads” on Monday, June 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET. In collaboration with American University, the American Council on Education (ACE) is hosting this webinar to discuss the intersecting issues of race and crisis leadership in higher education. The event will […]
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. Originally published in 2013, the initial bibliography highlighted five correlated findings on student outcomes that have been tied to negative working conditions for […]
Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, has joined Sharon Fries-Britt, Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland at College Park, and Lorelle Espinosa, Vice President for Research at the American Council on Education, to co-author an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed. In “Are Campus Leaders Prepared for the Impact of the Racial Crisis?” the […]
You are invited to attend the 42nd Pullias Lecture featuring Tia Brown McNair, Vice President in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success, Association of American Colleges and Universities, and Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe, Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. The Pullias Lectures are a signature event of the Pullias Center as well as for USC Rossier School […]
Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, is participating in a special webinar titled “The Gig Academy and COVID-19: Implications for the Future” on June 9, 2020 at 9am PT (noon ET). In the recently published book The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University, Adrianna Kezar and her co-authors describe and critique the restructuring of all academic labor […]
As a research center committed to addressing issues of equity in higher education, we express our solidarity with protesters across the country who are demanding justice in the senseless slayings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, and Tony McDade. We stand against police violence and brutality. We recognize these horrific killings are the continued manifestation of the system […]
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 […]
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 […]
Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the guide is designed for student activists at the undergraduate and graduate level. This population is in a unique position to make a difference in the lives of faculty currently experiencing terrible inequalities and working conditions. The Delphi Project, looking to empower, inform, and leverage all […]