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Tatiana Melguizo and Pullias Center to Study Community College STEM Opportunities with NSF Grant

Non-STEM and STEM math tracks to be studied at LACCD’s Pierce College with a goal of advancing opportunity and equity in STEM participation at community colleges. As community colleges around the country move toward eliminating developmental education, students are increasingly eligible to take a college-level Statistics/Liberal Arts Math (SLAM) OR Business and Science Technology, Engineering and Math (BSTEM) course. This […]

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Pullias Center to Host Webinar Examining Critical Race Theory (CRT) on January 26, 2023

The webinar will be facilitated by Pullias Center Alumni Award winners Raquel M. Rall (UC Riverside) and Antar Tichavakunda (UC Santa Barbara) who were awarded a Pullias Center 2022 Alumni Award to support racial equity-related research and projects. What is Critical Race Theory (CRT)? This oft-misunderstood theory has elicited strong responses and moral panic, with some researchers suggesting that CRT […]

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Case Studies Highlight 2022 Delphi-Award Winning Programs to Support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Dominican University of California and Montgomery College, winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, detail their programs designed to support adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty in new case studies. New publications that detail the Delphi Award-winning programs created and implemented by Dominican University of California (Dominican) and Montgomery College (MC) are now available for free download on the Pullias Center’s website. Titled […]

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47th Annual ASHE Conference – Las Vegas, Nevada – November 16-19, 2022

Meet the Pullias Researchers at ASHE 2022 Thursday, November 17, 2:00 – 3:15pm, Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Sunset 5 Living in the World Together: Rethinking Quantitative Methods and Measurement Session Submission Type: Paper Session “Exploring the Measurement Properties of Short Well-Being Scales among College Students” Authors: Nick Bowman (University of Iowa), Shinji Katsumoto (University of Iowa), and Ralitsa Todorova (University of Southern California) Thursday, […]

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Pullias Center & Rossier School of Education Assistant Professor Adrian H. Huerta wins 2022 ASHE Early Career Award

Dr. Adrian H. Huerta, Assistant Professor at the Pullias Center for Higher Education and the USC Rossier School of Education, has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Award for 2022 by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). The Award was established to recognize an individual whose work embodies “an emerging, significant, and potential for the future of a […]

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Translating Critical Race Research for Evidenced-Based Policymaking

By Royel M. Johnson As racial inequities in education deepen — due in part to the current COVID-19 public health crisis, growing economic challenges, and state-sanctioned anti-Black violence — efforts to increase the use of research evidence in policymaking takes on heightened importance. Specifically, use of rigorous research that is anchored in critical and transformative paradigms is key to the […]

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Pullias Center partners with LACCD and researchers from Harvard’s CEPR to study Covid-19 recovery

The three-year study, funded by a $2.9 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, will examine how technology can remake the student experience. The Covid-19 pandemic affected why students choose to enroll in the Los Angeles Community College District, how they attend classes, and what they go on to do.  Now, the Pullias Center is partnering with LACCD and researchers […]

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Connecting Research and Practice for Racial Equity

Royel M. Johnson With support from the Spencer Foundation, my colleagues Liliana Garces, Uju Anya and I, hosted a small national convening at Pennsylvania State University in 2019.  The two-day conference, “Envisioning Racial Equity on College Campuses: Bridging Research-to-Practice Gaps for Institutional Transformation” sought to develop strategies for addressing research-to-practice gaps that exist between higher education scholarship and the daily praxis of […]

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Announced

Dominican University of California and Montgomery College in Maryland Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty.   The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2022. Dominican […]

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Dwuana Bradley Joins Rossier/Pullias Center as Assistant Professor

The Pullias Center welcomes Dwuana Bradley to our faculty! Dr. Bradley brings more than 10 years of experience in qualitative research methodologies and is a former McNair Scholar. Her research examines the ways in which anti-Black sentiment perpetually undergirds the drivers and levers of federal, state, and institutional policies across the P-20 pipeline in ways that (un)intentionally reify the social […]

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