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Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Scott: The Delphi Award for Faculty Models that Support Student Success

Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar and research assistant Daniel Scott announced The Delphi Award on the American Council on Education’s Higher Education Today blog on April 5, 2018. Part of The Delphi Project on Changing Faculty and Student Success, the Delphi Award is designed to recognize campuses that have made changes to their policies and practices for college instruction, particularly […]

College Access in a Digital Era: Games, videos, and resources

April 9, 2018April 18, 2018 pulliasadmin Digital equity digital equity zoe corwin

The inaugural College Access in a Digital Era — a practitioner convening to address digital issues in the college access space — brought together about 100 stakeholders in the digital equity space for a stimulating day of keynote panels and interactive workshops on March 9, 2018, at LA84, near USC’s University Park Campus. Organized by the Digital Equity in Education […]

Pullias’ Julie Posselt wins AERA Early Career Award

April 2, 2018March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin Awards, Equity & Diversity aera julie posselt

We’re proud to announce Assistant Professor Julie Posselt, researcher at USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and nationally-recognized expert on graduate education, has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Award for 2018 by the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Established to honor an individual in the early stages of his or her career no later than 10 years after […]

Experience the Pullias Lecture: Video, photos, and Twitter moments

March 28, 2018March 28, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Events adrianna kezar julie posselt latinx pullias lecture william tierney

Sarita E. Brown, founding president of Excelencia in Education, gave the keynote at the 40th Pullias Lecture at USC on March 27, 2018. In her keynote, titled “Pursuing Equity in Higher Education Using a Latino Lens,” Brown said we need faculty and leaders who believe “in the capacity of the higher education section to be a gateway for equity in […]

Envisioning Public Scholarship for Our Time: Models for Higher Education Researchers

March 26, 2018April 19, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, Publications adrianna kezar joseph kitchen michael lanford william tierney zoe corwin

Pullias researchers coedit a new book that advocates for bottom-up change. Available July 2018. Preorder from Stylus for a 30% discount with the code EPSPRE. What is the role of a public scholar? A new book proposes a new paradigm of public scholarship for our time, one that shifts from the notion of the public intellectual to the model of […]

Adrian Huerta in El Tiempo: Many schools lack strategies to support Latino gang youth

March 26, 2018June 15, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices adrian huerta latinx

Pullias Center Provost Postdoctoral Scholar Adrian Huerta‘s research on Latino men, gang-related issues, and inequalities in educational opportunities was featured in El Tiempo, a Spanish-language newspaper in Las Vegas, on March 22, 2018. Recientemente el investigador de University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, Dr. Adrián Huerta, ofreció una conferencia en la Universidad de Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) para hablar […]

Meet Pullias researchers at AERA 2018

March 22, 2018April 12, 2021 Events PASS project PASS adrian huerta adrianna kezar aera christopher newman darnell cole elizabeth holcombe joseph kitchen julie posselt ronald hallett tslc william tierney zoe corwin

The annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association takes place April 13-17, 2018, in New York City, and researchers from the Pullias Center will be presenting on a wide variety of topics, from “Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education” to “Evaluating the Effects of a Game-Based Intervention on Free Application for Federal Student Aid Completion” to “The Evolution […]

Elizabeth Holcombe: Implementing integrated comprehensive student programs in STEM

March 21, 2018June 21, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, Pullias Voices, STEM reform elizabeth holcombe stem

Implementing Integrated Comprehensive Student Programs in STEM: Challenges and Facilitators from the CSU STEM Collaboratives This blog post, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Elizabeth Holcombe, was originally published in the ASCN Blog, March 21, 2018. In my last post, I described the benefits of integrated support programs for underrepresented students in STEM. These integrated programs bridge organizational silos and build a unified […]

Free Webinar: Increasing Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 pulliasadmin Equity & Diversity, STEM reform elizabeth holcombe stem

How can universities support first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority STEM students? Collaborating between academic and student affairs can play an important role, according to a key study by Pullias researchers. This finding comes from a three-year, eight-campus study of the California State University (CSU) STEM Collaboratives project, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust. Elizabeth Holcombe, research assistant at Pullias Center, […]

Which digital tools help students pursue higher education?

March 12, 2018May 3, 2019 pulliasadmin College access, Digital equity digital equity zoe corwin

A joint report by Pullias Center and Get Schooled provides a handy guide. Download: Full report (PDF) | Press release (Word) Many digital tools aimed at helping high school students move on to college have been developed in recent years. But which tools are readily available and appropriate, especially for low-income students? A new report called “How is Technology Addressing […]