New Reports and Webinars Explore Accountability, Roles in SEL and Capacity Building Over the past two years, Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Elizabeth Holcombe, former graduate student Jude Paul Dizon (now faculty at Rutgers University), along with grad students Jordan Harper and Natsumi Ueda, have been working on a next phase study of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL). […]
Center Launches Much Needed New Study with $1.5 Million National Science Foundation Grant Who are higher education faculty in the U.S.? This may seem like a simplistic question, but the reality is that, on a national level, we don’t really know. It’s been nearly two decades since there has been nationally representative data collected about faculty, with the last National […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education asked the Center’s alumni to submit proposals for research projects that explore racial equity and inclusion in higher education, with $5,000 presented to each of the three winning proposals. For the second time, the Pullias Center for Higher Education’s Alumni Awards has again selected inspiring and innovative projects that focus on promoting deeper understandings […]
Dr. Adrian H. Huerta leads the nationwide qualitative study that focuses on improving support systems for student parents. A new report that features the myriad ways that community colleges around the country support their student parent populations — as well as what can be improved — has just been released by the USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, part of […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the Pullias Center for Higher Education $1.5 Million to develop and pilot a national survey that will provide a provide a contemporary understanding of postsecondary faculty in the United States. The grant, given by the NSF’s EHR Core Research program within their Human Resource Development division, will fund the Faculty, Academic Careers and […]
Dr. Adrian H. Huerta, Assistant Professor in the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious 2022 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Huerta, who joined Pullias/Rossier in 2019, is one of 25 Fellows selected by NAEd out of an extremely competitive pool of 258 […]
Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, USC University Professor and Dean’s Professor of Education and Engineering, recently announced his retirement after a distinguished 66 year career. Dr. Slaughter joined USC Rossier in 2010, and also holds a joint appointment at the Viterbi School of Engineering. His education research has been in the areas of higher education leadership, diversity and inclusion in higher […]
By Zoë Corwin A year ago, I wrote about a new participatory action research study (PAR) we had just launched through the Pullias Center called Mattering in the Margins: Skateboarders’ Stories of Mental Health Challenges and Opportunities. The study expanded on findings from a prior national study intended to better understand the experiences of youth who skateboard called Beyond the […]
This May, five Pullias Center doctoral candidates will graduate from the USC Rossier School of Education. We would like to offer our sincerest congratulations to Steve Desir, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Theresa E. Hernandez, Aireale J. Rodgers and Deborah E. Southern as they continue their professional careers. Now, with doctoral degrees in hand, these new grads reflected on their time […]
An Opinion from Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, USC Dean’s Professor of Education and Engineering Dr. Slaughter has served as the USC Dean’s Professor of Education and Engineering since 2010, and recently announced his retirement, effective June 2022. Professor Slaughter’s storied career spans 66 years and includes working in the private sector, academia and federal government. STEM education. The very […]