Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is joined by an impressive lineup of high-profile professional skateboarders in a new video that urges the skateboarding community to support a groundbreaking study of skateboard culture by taking the time to complete an online survey. The USC Pullias Center for Higher Education study in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication is funded by the Tony […]
Pullias Center faculty member John Slaughter and Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar were among the USC professors honored April 9 at USC’s 38th annual Academic Honors Convocation. Slaughter received the University Medallion, awarded to those who have made major contributions to the university. background. He has had remarkably distinguished career, which began as an electrical engineer and includes leading two universities and […]
Pullias Center faculty member Tatiana Melguizo is lending her expertise to a national committee with the goal to help students succeed in post-secondary math courses. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine named Melguizo to a committee to plan and conduct a public workshop for stakeholders in math education titled Increasing Success in Developmental Mathematics. As a part of […]
Pullias Center research assistant Theresa E. Hernandez was one of two graduate students from USC to meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to advocate for graduate education last month. Hernandez, along with USC Price PhD candidate Andrew Eisenlohr and USC Vice Provost Sally Pratt, joined about 40 other deans and graduate students to participate in the Council of Graduate Schools’ […]
Most community colleges students come from the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder, and enter their college studies with hopes of social mobility. Yet these colleges receive much less federal and state funding and spend far less per student than four-year institutions. The effects of this underfunding can be seen in completion rates: Only 38 percent of the 9 million […]
Pullias Center researchers debuted an innovative digital initiative to bolster first-year persistence at California State University, Dominguez Hills last fall. Called Charge On!, the social campaign is now starting to get initial data—and received coverage on KPCC and LAist, with quotes from Pullias faculty member Zoë B. Corwin, the lead researcher on this project: Charge On reached a milestone last week. On […]
Congratulations to Pullias Center faculty member Julie Posselt, who recently received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of education, with a focus on higher education! Posselt is a national expert on graduate admissions and the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Rooted in sociological and organizational theory, her research program examines institutionalized inequalities […]
A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured the work of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, a project of the Pullias Center that provides tools and resources to help create new faculty models and better support faculty off the tenure track to enhance higher education institutions. A better way to understand the […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted in a number of major newspapers about USC’s involvement in the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal and the appointment of USC’s president-elect Carol L. Folt. Financial Times, Admissions scandal hits “university of spoiled children” “Instead of cultivating an environment of reflection and reasoned debate, the university sprinted toward growth,” William Tierney, a professor […]