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New Report Examines Professional Development for NTTF in Higher Education

Designing Accessible and Inclusive Professional Development for NTTF is a new report from the Pullias Center for Higher Education that takes a close look at how universities support non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) in professional development. This includes examining emerging and best practices—such as providing faculty with orientations, workshops and symposiums, learning communities, scholarly conferences, newsletters and resource websites, or awards. Adrianna […]

Pullias Center Publishes Report on the Role of University Boards in Higher Education and Racial Equity

September 1, 2021October 21, 2021 Pullias News

Getting the Boards Involved: Considering Racial Equity at the Highest Level of University Governance is one of five reports generated from research funded by the inaugural Pullias Center Equity Alumni Awards created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pullias Center. Raquel M. Rall (‘14), author of the publication and former Pullias Center member, is an Assistant Professor of Higher […]

USC Pullias Center for Higher Education Debuts New Website Dedicated to PASS Project

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Pullias News PASS project PASS college access

The Promoting At-Promise Student Success Project (PASS), a Pullias Center study funded by the Susan B. Thompson Foundation, now has its very own website at pass.pullias.usc.edu. Information about the study had previously been integrated into the Pullias Center’s website alongside dozens of current and prior research initiatives. “As the Pullias Center’s longest-running study, spanning more than half a decade and […]

USC Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar Named Executive Editor of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

June 30, 2021October 21, 2021 Pullias News adrianna kezar

Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, will be the new Executive Editor of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, making the Pullias Center the new editorial home for the influential publication. Kezar has been on the magazine’s editorial board for the past two decades and assumed her new role on July 1, 2021. “Dr. Kezar’s tireless […]

Pullias Researchers Examine English Misalignment of Former English Learners in California Community Colleges

May 26, 2021 pulliasadmin Uncategorized AB705 community college tatiana melguizo

Lost Transitions: The Cost of Inter-sector Misalignment for English Learners in Community Colleges, a new brief from the Pullias Center examines findings from the center’s study of community college students with a native language other than English who built proficiency in English through special support in K-12 public schools. That study showed more than 70% of all college-ready students in […]

Zoë B. Corwin: Learning More than Tricks from Skateboarders

May 26, 2021May 27, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices skatebboarding Pullias Voices zoe corwin

A year ago, I invited colleagues from across USC to collaborate on an interdisciplinary participatory action research study to explore the intersection of skateboarding, mental wellness, and community. We called the study Mattering in the Margins because we wanted to highlight the complex and wonderful ways that skaters thrive despite regularly being stigmatized and pushed to the margins of educational and […]

Inside the New Skateboarding Study: Reflections from the Researchers

May 26, 2021June 24, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices Pullias Voices skateboarding

In the summer of 2020, USC faculty – with funding from the USC Provost’s Office – embarked on the Mattering in the Margins study to explore how Los Angeles area skateboarders navigate wellness and foster community. In February of 2021, we welcomed a brilliant group of skateboarders – between the ages of 18-30 – as participatory action research collaborators. The […]

New Report Examines Safe Spaces in Higher Education

May 26, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News equity alumni award

Understanding the Narratives of Safe Space to Inform Higher Education Policy is one of five reports generated from research funded by the inaugural Pullias Center Equity Alumni Awards created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pullias Center. Cecile Sam (‘12), the publication’s author and former Pullias Center member, received her PhD in Urban Education from the University of Southern […]

Virtual PASA Program Student Poster Session Hosted by Pullias Center Researchers

May 10, 2021May 14, 2021 Events, Pullias News events

On May 11, Pullias Center researchers Aireale J. Rodgers, Elise Swanson, Jordan Harper, and Zoë B. Corwin hosted a virtual poster session for students from the Master of Education in Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs (PASA) program at USC Rossier School of Education. While traditionally poster sessions are held at conferences, the Pullias Center team worked closely with the PASA […]

Challenges, Risks, and Rewards

April 22, 2021April 23, 2021 Pullias Voices Pullias Voices

Dr. Huerta’s research team at the Pullias Center reflects on mixing a graduate education with research Authors: Maria Romero-Morales, Edgar Lopez, Julie Nguyen, Maritza Salazar, Kyrie Sanchinelli-Salazar, Haille Thomas, and Rosalva Isidoro Feeling uncomfortable is the key to improving creativity and learning, academic and professional growth, and, especially, finding success in graduate school and beyond. In general, master’s and doctoral […]

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