USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education Announces 2021 Delphi Award Winners

University of Denver and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Selected for Prestigious Award for Their Work Transforming Support for Contingent Faculty The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, in partnership with the Association for American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2021. The University of Denver […]

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Pullias is Hiring Two Postdoctoral Scholars

Pullias is Hiring Two Postdoctoral Scholars: Postdoctoral Scholar for a Qualitative Study Leading College Transformation The University of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, one of the world’s leading research centers on higher education, is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to assist research on its Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded research project, Refining Resources in Leadership Teams for Institutional Transformation. […]

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Pullias Center Faculty Looks Forward to the 2021-2022 Academic Year

The start of a new academic year brings hope and promise that the pandemic and its challenges are decreasing. Teaching classes and doing research over Zoom was not the direction any of us suspected the previous academic year to go, and yet educators and students alike managed to persevere and move forward with their educational work. The University of Southern […]

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Posselt Named USC Graduate School Associate Dean

Dr. Julie Posselt, Associate Professor of Higher Education in the USC Rossier School of Education and faculty member of the Pullias Center, has been named Associate Dean, USC Graduate School. The USC Graduate School’s mission is to promote an outstanding educational experience for USC graduate students, to celebrate graduate student achievements, and to provide leadership in the establishment and communication […]

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New Report Examines Professional Development for NTTF in Higher Education

Designing Accessible and Inclusive Professional Development for NTTF is a new report from the Pullias Center for Higher Education that takes a close look at how universities support non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) in professional development. This includes examining emerging and best practices—such as providing faculty with orientations, workshops and symposiums, learning communities, scholarly conferences, newsletters and resource websites, or awards. Adrianna […]

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Pullias Center Publishes Report on the Role of University Boards in Higher Education and Racial Equity

Getting the Boards Involved: Considering Racial Equity at the Highest Level of University Governance is one of five reports generated from research funded by the inaugural Pullias Center Equity Alumni Awards created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pullias Center. Raquel M. Rall (‘14), author of the publication and former Pullias Center member, is an Assistant Professor of Higher […]

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USC Pullias Center for Higher Education Debuts New Website Dedicated to PASS Project 

The Promoting At-Promise Student Success Project (PASS), a Pullias Center study funded by the Susan B. Thompson Foundation, now has its very own website at pass.pullias.usc.edu. Information about the study had previously been integrated into the Pullias Center’s website alongside dozens of current and prior research initiatives.  “As the Pullias Center’s longest-running study, spanning more than half a decade and […]

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USC Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar Named Executive Editor of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning

Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, will be the new Executive Editor of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, making the Pullias Center the new editorial home for the influential publication. Kezar has been on the magazine’s editorial board for the past two decades and assumed her new role on July 1, 2021. “Dr. Kezar’s tireless […]

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