Ronald E. Hallett, Professor of Education in the LaFetra College of Education at the University of La Verne and a research associate at the Pullias Center of Higher Education, reflects on the Pullias Center’s 25th Anniversary in this fifth of a series of essays marking the occasion. My research career began in the Pullias Center. I started as a research […]
Issues related to food and housing insecurity among college students have likely existed for decades. However, their struggles have largely been invisible to policymakers and educational leadership until more recently. A new book looks at basic needs insecurity among college students and the pathways to creating policies and services that support them through the completion of a higher education degree. […]
States are increasingly tying postsecondary funding to easily quantifiable outcomes such as retention and graduation rates even as employers emphasize the importance of psychosocial skills. New research looks into whether psychosocial and academic outcomes move together in postsecondary organizations or whether they are competing goals. “Postsecondary institutions are being pulled in multiple, potentially competing, directions regarding the skills, knowledge, and […]
The Pullias Center has gathered a range of resources for everyone in higher education, including students, faculty, and administrators, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. These have been created and curated from internal and external sources. We at the Pullias Center send out our thoughts to everyone in the higher education community to be safe and well at this time. We […]
For the last 20 years, I have volunteered in schools and community centers, served as a mentor to young men of color, been invited to speak in middle and high school classrooms, and have tried to understand how we can get more men of color into, and graduated from, college. All this to say that increasing access and success to […]
It’s almost midnight as a final figure emerges from Waite Phillips Hall on the USC campus. He would be the last person to be in the offices of the Pullias Center for a while. The governor had just issued a stay at home order that took effect in under an hour. An unusually low and dense fog had settled in […]
The Men of Color study is going strong more than two years after receiving a grant to research best practices for improving college persistence and graduation rates for minority men. The Pullias Center news story announcing that a $300k grant from ECMC Foundation would be put towards the new Men of Color study ran in December 2018. It highlighted that […]
A new paper from researchers at USC, UCLA, and the University of La Verne, including the Pullias Center’s Adrian Huerta, seeks to explore a specific barrier to planning and preparation for higher education encountered by young gang-associated Latino males. The research paper, titled College is…: Focusing on the college knowledge of gang-associated Latino boys and young men, shares a qualitative […]
Being a student while also being a parent complicates the traditional college experience. A pair of researchers are examining how these student-parents adapt and overcome the inherent barriers and gaps they face in higher education. More than one in five college students (22%) are parents according to analysis of National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data, with roughly 70% of those […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education has been awarded a COVID-19 Rapid Response Small Grant from ECMC Foundation to support the ongoing Men of Color study. The funds, which ECMC Foundation has made available through a program for the organization’s existing grantees, have been generously provided to help students involved in men of color programs that are currently being studied […]