A team of scholars and practitioners will use tech tools to help improve first-year retention rates at CSU Dominguez Hills. Can digital tools help students persist in college? A new project at the Pullias Center for Higher Education aims to find out. The ECMC Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to the Pullias Center to develop an online campaign to […]
A new paper argues for a “Justice for All” approach that prepares students to advocate for democratic equity. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Should we prepare everyone to go to college? Or is it acceptable to prepare just some people for college, given that not all students have the desire, aptitude, or financial means to attain a degree? If social […]
This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in University World News, March 2, 2018. As far as academic fêtes go, this one felt pretty run of the mill. It was 2014 at my institution, the University of Southern California (USC), and the event was an elaborate dinner to celebrate the unveiling of a statue […]
A new paper shows higher education in India can exacerbate tensions of class and caste. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Although India outlawed the caste system in 1947, its legacy is far from over. Caste identity still affects all aspects of life — including university campus life — in India. In a new paper published in […]
When you have an important deadline, do you buckle down at your office computer? Or venture to a café with wifi, toting a laptop? Do you spell check? Share drafts with colleagues via Dropbox or Google docs? What if you had to do it all on your smartphone? And how would your work unfold if you didn’t have access to […]
Integrating across Academic and Student Affairs to Support Underrepresented Students in STEM: Lessons from the CSU STEM Collaboratives This blog post, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Elizabeth Holcombe, was originally published in the ASCN Blog, Feb. 21, 2018. The challenges of keeping undergraduate students in STEM programs and getting them to complete their degrees are well-documented and frequently discussed […]
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1,195,000 grant for a project to increase equity in graduate admissions to a team of researchers from USC, UC Davis, and UCLA. Serving as the project’s advisor and assessment lead is Assistant Professor Julie Posselt, researcher at USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and nationally-recognized expert on graduate admissions. Called Alliance […]
This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney and Pullias postdoctoral scholar Michael Lanford, was originally published in The Sacramento Bee, February 12, 2018. Like it or not, California State University students are about to become guinea pigs in a grand educational experiment. Beginning this fall, CSUs will stop giving placement tests or offering remedial classes, and instead […]
