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Julie Posselt on WORT 89.9: The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions

March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was interviewed about the many legal strategies used by the wealthy to tilt college admissions decisions in their favor by WORT 89.9, a listener-sponsored community radio station in Madison, Wisc. The segment, titled “The Meritocracy Myth of College Admissions,” comes on the heels of the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal at USC and other colleges and universities. Listen to the […]

William G. Tierney in Los Angeles Times: USC has a new president. Now the trustees and faculty have to change

March 21, 2019March 22, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices william tierney

This op-ed — authored by Pullias co-director William G. Tierney — was originally published in The Los Angeles Times on March 21, 2019. ___ To say USC has had a dramatic couple of years would be an understatement. A drug-using medical school dean, a health center doctor accused of sexual misconduct, President C.L. Max Nikias pushed out under duress, a business school dean […]

Adrianna Kezar: A Critical time to support non-tenure-track faculty

March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar voices her support for the right of non-tenure-track faculty to collectively bargain. by Adrianna Kezar At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, we firmly believe that public engagement is a responsibility of scholars and part of quality scholarship. With the recent news about the challenges adjunct faculty unions are facing at USC and at other institutions […]

Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: How to talk to non-tenure-track faculty

March 21, 2019September 11, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured research on non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar. Patch writes: First, we have to let NTT faculty tell their own stories in their own words. Sounds easy, but research by Adrianna Kezar and others shows that most studies of NTT faculty are not conducted by NTT faculty themselves. Nor […]

William G. Tierney in The Sacramento Bee: University of Scandal, Corruption?

March 19, 2019April 5, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices william tierney

Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted about the reasons behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal in an Associated Press article titled “University of Scandal, Corruption? USC at core of bribe plot,” published in a number of major newspapers: William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education, said the current crisis is tied to [former USC president] Nikias’ “stage-managed” hiring of […]

Julie Posselt in The Conversation: Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions

March 15, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices julie posselt

This op-ed — authored by Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt, along with fellow USC Rossier professors Morgan Polikoff and Jerome A. Lucido — was originally published in The Conversation on March 15, 2019. * The most damaging myth in American higher education is that college admissions is about merit, and that merit is about striving for – and earning – academic […]

The Delphi Project in Inside Higher Ed: Protecting tenure

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices delphi project

A Pullias Center report titled National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time, which tracks the growing percentage of non-tenure-track faculty on college and university campuses, was recently featured in an op-ed by Richard A. Greenfield in Inside Higher Ed: The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty members has steadily declined. A 2013 study by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of […]

Julie Posselt in Inside Higher Ed: The Admissions scandal and a service for PhDs

March 15, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices julie posselt

Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about Versatile Ph.D., a popular career platform owned by the foundation behind the recently uncovered college admissions cheating scandal: Julie Posselt, associate professor of education at the University of Southern California — which is among the institutions targeted in the admissions fraud case — wrote an eye-opening 2016 book about the graduate admissions process. (Posselt also […]

Pullias alumna runs 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days for charity

March 7, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias News

by Jonathan Riggs A runner since 2011, Pullias alumna Shirley Parry long dreamed of running a marathon on each continent—but at a reasonable pace, say, one per year. So how did she end up becoming one of only 138 people to ever complete the World Marathon Challenge—founded in 2012—of seven marathons on seven continents in seven days? “Someone told me a […]

Pullias Center welcomes new faculty member Adrian Huerta

March 6, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias News adrian huerta

Adrian Huerta, an expert on college access and equity for boys and men of color, will join the Pullias Center this fall as an assistant professor of education, with a focus on higher education. Currently a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pullias Center, Huerta will transition to his new USC Rossier faculty position in August. In his new role, he will continue […]