Student turns good fortune into selfless act How this college student spent her Charge On! award money is quite surprising and undeniably heartwarming. Evelyn was awarded a $1,000 prize for her participation in an innovative research project conducted by USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, the non-profit Get Schooled, and California State University, Dominguez Hills. She could have spent her […]
USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication and the Tony Hawk Foundation, recently published a white paper as part of their Beyond the Board: Skateboarding, Schools, and Society study. The white paper provides context for the larger study that entails interviews with over 100 skateboarders in East Los Angeles, Gallup, Detroit, Houston, and the Boston […]
The Pullias Center is pleased to announce it’s new research affiliate Dr. Jennifer Keup, Director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Drs’ Kezar and Keup have collaborated on the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities Project, a $7 million dollar project funded by the Susan T. Buffett Foundation, where Keup is an Advisory Board member. […]
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 […]