When you have an important deadline, do you buckle down at your office computer? Or venture to a café with wifi, toting a laptop? Do you spell check? Share drafts with colleagues via Dropbox or Google docs? What if you had to do it all on your smartphone? And how would your work unfold if you didn’t have access to […]
Integrating across Academic and Student Affairs to Support Underrepresented Students in STEM: Lessons from the CSU STEM Collaboratives This blog post, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Elizabeth Holcombe, was originally published in the ASCN Blog, Feb. 21, 2018. The challenges of keeping undergraduate students in STEM programs and getting them to complete their degrees are well-documented and frequently discussed […]
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1,195,000 grant for a project to increase equity in graduate admissions to a team of researchers from USC, UC Davis, and UCLA. Serving as the project’s advisor and assessment lead is Assistant Professor Julie Posselt, researcher at USC Rossier’s Pullias Center for Higher Education and nationally-recognized expert on graduate admissions. Called Alliance […]
This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney and Pullias postdoctoral scholar Michael Lanford, was originally published in The Sacramento Bee, February 12, 2018. Like it or not, California State University students are about to become guinea pigs in a grand educational experiment. Beginning this fall, CSUs will stop giving placement tests or offering remedial classes, and instead […]
New book by Pullias researchers tackles digital equity in education. Technology is often touted as a tool that provides more open access to education, but a persistent digital divide marginalizes youths from underserved communities, according to a new book edited by Pullias Center researchers. Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity, to be published Feb. 1, 2018, by Johns […]
We are co-sponsoring CSII’s California Bold Conference, a gathering with cross-sector leaders who defend, develop & deploy bold immigrant integration policies & movements—in CA & across the U.S.
