Jennifer R. Keup, Executive Director of The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, shares her perspective on this tumultuous year. When I was asked to serve as the guest editor of the December issue of the Pullias Center’s newsletter and write a story for the website, I braced myself for a daunting task. How does […]
Vasti Torres, Ph.D. Professor at Indiana University, Editor for the Journal of College Student Development, current AERA Division J Vice President, and colleague of the Pullias Center, reflects on the Center’s 25th Anniversary in this ninth of a series of essays marking the occasion. In reflecting on the role that research centers serve within the higher education scholarly community, the first things […]
A new report written by Pullias Center researchers tackles the institutionalization of policing in higher education campus safety and management. By providing administrators with important perspectives, key takeaways, reflective questions, and specific recommendations, Campus Policing: A Guide for Higher Education Leaders acts as a guide for higher education leaders looking to proactively respond to issues of policing and racism on […]
Julie Posselt, Theresa Hernandez, Deborah Southern, and Steve Desir from the Pullias Center and Fatima Alleyne from University of California, Berkeley, share their collective perspective on a year that continues to defy description. Unprecedented. Extraordinary. Challenging. Difficult. Unusual. Our emails remind us daily that these times are like none other. 2020 gets an asterisk, and we are only half way […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education introduces a new series, Higher Ed Conversations in Black. Each issue will feature invited contributors sharing short, searing, and lyrical commentary with an aim toward helping higher education become a more supportive and equitable environment for all. The commentary is meant to both evoke new conversations and offer novel perspectives on existing issues that plague higher education.
“Now, more than ever, it is necessary to highlight and purposely center the notes, musings, and opinions of Black thought leaders and scholars in higher education,” notes Jordan Harper, the Pullias Center Research Assistant who created the project and is editor of the premiere issue. “They provide a unique and compelling perspective about the postsecondary education system that is informed by their positionalities in higher education and society.”
The premiere edition is available to read now and will be followed by future issues every two months starting December 2020. Higher Ed Conversations in Black is inspired by Ed Gordon’s book Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership.
(10/1 Update) – Click here to read more about Jordan Harper and Higher Ed Conversations in Black in the Daily Trojan
Teams from Louisiana State University and Northcentral University to be honored for innovative support of adjunct faculty in promoting student success. The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2020. Louisiana State University and Northcentral University will each receive $15,000 cash awards to […]
One of the topics that Dr. Kaiwipunikauikawēkiu Lipe, Native Hawaiian Affairs Program Officer at University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa (UHM), will touch upon during her featured presentation at the 42nd Pullias Lecture on September 15, 2020, is settler colonialism. Her native Hawai’i stands in many ways as an example of the impacts of settler colonialism and Dr. Lipe leads a team […]