Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, is participating in a special webinar titled “The Gig Academy and COVID-19: Implications for the Future” on June 9, 2020 at 9am PT (noon ET). In the recently published book The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University, Adrianna Kezar and her co-authors describe and critique the restructuring of all academic labor […]
As a research center committed to addressing issues of equity in higher education, we express our solidarity with protesters across the country who are demanding justice in the senseless slayings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, and Tony McDade. We stand against police violence and brutality. We recognize these horrific killings are the continued manifestation of the system […]
Comprehensive college transition programs (CCTP), which provide academic and social support for at-promise students as they transition to college and begin their academic journey, are gaining traction as a systematic approach to supporting the students’ learning, development, and college success. For the last 5 years, a team of researchers at the Pullias Center have been looking to gain a crucial […]
Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the guide is designed for student activists at the undergraduate and graduate level. This population is in a unique position to make a difference in the lives of faculty currently experiencing terrible inequalities and working conditions. The Delphi Project, looking to empower, inform, and leverage all […]
Issues related to food and housing insecurity among college students have likely existed for decades. However, their struggles have largely been invisible to policymakers and educational leadership until more recently. A new book looks at basic needs insecurity among college students and the pathways to creating policies and services that support them through the completion of a higher education degree. […]
States are increasingly tying postsecondary funding to easily quantifiable outcomes such as retention and graduation rates even as employers emphasize the importance of psychosocial skills. New research looks into whether psychosocial and academic outcomes move together in postsecondary organizations or whether they are competing goals. “Postsecondary institutions are being pulled in multiple, potentially competing, directions regarding the skills, knowledge, and […]
The Pullias Center has gathered a range of resources for everyone in higher education, including students, faculty, and administrators, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. These have been created and curated from internal and external sources. We at the Pullias Center send out our thoughts to everyone in the higher education community to be safe and well at this time. We […]
The Men of Color study is going strong more than two years after receiving a grant to research best practices for improving college persistence and graduation rates for minority men. The Pullias Center news story announcing that a $300k grant from ECMC Foundation would be put towards the new Men of Color study ran in December 2018. It highlighted that […]
A new paper from researchers at USC, UCLA, and the University of La Verne, including the Pullias Center’s Adrian Huerta, seeks to explore a specific barrier to planning and preparation for higher education encountered by young gang-associated Latino males. The research paper, titled College is…: Focusing on the college knowledge of gang-associated Latino boys and young men, shares a qualitative […]
Being a student while also being a parent complicates the traditional college experience. A pair of researchers are examining how these student-parents adapt and overcome the inherent barriers and gaps they face in higher education. More than one in five college students (22%) are parents according to analysis of National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data, with roughly 70% of those […]