William G. Tierney will retire from the University of Southern California after 26 years of service at the USC Rossier School of Education. He will step down as co-director of the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education on June 30, 2019, remaining on the USC faculty as University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education until December 31, 2019, when […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education is proud to announce the addition of seven new researchers! First, we welcome two new postdoctoral research associates, Román Liera and James Dean Ward. Liera, a qualitative researcher who studies racial equity in student outcomes and faculty participation, works on projects that promote equity in graduate education with Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the […]
The 43rd annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education takes place Nov. 14-17, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. This year’s event is particularly special for the Pullias Center because Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney will be honored with the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award! In addition, researchers from the Pullias Center will be presenting on a […]
This book review, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Aireale Rodgers, was originally published in The TRiiBE on Oct. 18, 2018. This summer, two weeks before I moved to Los Angeles from my native Chicago for graduate school, doctors diagnosed my great-aunt Margie Britten with cancer. Two months later, she went into hospice care without much time left to live. My […]
William G. Tierney, co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, has been awarded the prestigious Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award for 2018 by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Established to honor an individual “whose professional life has been devoted in substantial part to the study of higher education and whose career has significantly advanced the field through extraordinary […]
Tatiana Melguizo will join a team of education researchers and practitioners to investigate students’ educational pathways from middle school to college. Are middle school students placed in honors math more likely to declare STEM majors in college? Do specific high school math courses help struggling students successfully transition to college-level math? Is a high school student who takes financial algebra […]
Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about the growing numbers of non-tenure-track faculty at colleges and universities: Some 73 percent of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to a new analysis of federal databy the American Association of University Professors. “For the most part, these are insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic […]
Congratulations to Pullias research assistants W. Edward Chi, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Liane Hypolite, Suneal Kolluri and Marissiko M. Wheaton, recipients of Rossier Research Office Internal Research Grants! Below are the titles and abstracts of the research papers the grants will support. W. Edward Chi: School Accountability and Postsecondary Student Outcomes School Accountability and Postsecondary Student Outcomes consists of two essays that assess the postsecondary […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the status of and career prospects for visiting assistant professors: Visiting positions take a variety of forms, says William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California. When he pictures a beneficial visiting position, Tierney thinks of his experiences in visiting fellowships overseas, […]