Join the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at USC Dornsife for an engaging talk featuring Lindsay C. Page, an assistant professor of research methodology at the School of Education and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Page’s talk is titled “More […]
A study of college transition programs at CSUs details the benefits of comprehensive, integrated support programs for underserved students. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF When college and university departments work together to help first-year STEM students transition to college, students succeed at significantly higher rates. That is what two researchers from the Pullias Center for Higher Education found when they studied CSU […]
Tatiana Melguizo, a faculty researcher at the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, was recently interviewed about her research and equity-minded approaches to mathematics education by Vilma Mesa, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, on the Democracy’s College podcast on August 21, 2018. I want to say that it’s very important for researchers to really get insights […]
Why do so many Latino male students decide to enlist in the military instead of going to college? A new study explores the reasons. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Many people today believe college is an option available to anyone who wants a bachelor’s degree. After all, even if your high school didn’t adequately prepare you for higher education, you […]
This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Suneal Kolluri, was originally published in Education Week on August 23, 2018. Access to rigorous, Advanced Placement coursework has expanded significantly over the past decade, but not without serious gripes from some parents, teachers, and media commentators. A popular argument against offering more students the opportunity to take to Advanced Placement courses is that […]
Instead of dismissing black youth’s use of technology as “a waste of time,” educators should explore ways to cultivate and build on those skills, researchers argue. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Parents of teenagers today often complain their children are “addicted” to technology, spending too much time playing video games and watching YouTube videos. For black youth, such criticisms about […]
A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable faculty and administrators to bring holistic graduate admissions practices to six California universities. Read a few graduate school mission statements, and you’ll find the words “equity” and “diversity” pop up a lot. In fact, for many universities, equity and diversity have been explicit institutional goals for decades. Yet many graduate education […]
Congratulations to Elizabeth Holcombe, research assistant at the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, who successfully defended her PhD dissertation on August 9, 2018! Titled “Assessment and Teaching Improvement in Higher Education: Investigating an Unproven Link,” Holcombe’s dissertation studies whether research universities’ efforts to assess the knowledge and abilities students gain through their college experiences shapes teaching and learning environments. While […]
When academic and student affairs departments work together, first-year STEM students achieve greater success, a study finds. Full article HTML | Full article PDF A first-generation college student wants to major in math—but enrolls in the wrong course because her academic advisor isn’t familiar with the math sequence. Once classes begin, the student doesn’t understand what faculty office hours are—and so never […]