The Pullias Center is pleased to announce it’s new research affiliate Dr. Jennifer Keup, Director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Drs’ Kezar and Keup have collaborated on the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities Project, a $7 million dollar project funded by the Susan T. Buffett Foundation, where Keup is an Advisory Board member. […]
Pullias Center faculty member John Slaughter and Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar were among the USC professors honored April 9 at USC’s 38th annual Academic Honors Convocation. Slaughter received the University Medallion, awarded to those who have made major contributions to the university. background. He has had remarkably distinguished career, which began as an electrical engineer and includes leading two universities and […]
Congratulations to Pullias Center faculty member Julie Posselt, who recently received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of education, with a focus on higher education! Posselt is a national expert on graduate admissions and the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Rooted in sociological and organizational theory, her research program examines institutionalized inequalities […]
by Jonathan Riggs A runner since 2011, Pullias alumna Shirley Parry long dreamed of running a marathon on each continent—but at a reasonable pace, say, one per year. So how did she end up becoming one of only 138 people to ever complete the World Marathon Challenge—founded in 2012—of seven marathons on seven continents in seven days? “Someone told me a […]
Adrian Huerta, an expert on college access and equity for boys and men of color, will join the Pullias Center this fall as an assistant professor of education, with a focus on higher education. Currently a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar at the Pullias Center, Huerta will transition to his new USC Rossier faculty position in August. In his new role, he will continue […]
Congratulations to Pullias research assistants Arely Acuña Avilez, Lauren Irwin, Aireale Joi Rodgers and Deborah E. Southern, recipients of Rossier Research Office Internal Research Grants! Below are the titles and abstracts of the research papers the grants will support. Arely Acuña Avilez: Undocumented Student Organizations: Navigating the Sociopolitical Context in Higher Education Though largely understudied, research shows that peer groups and […]
From a report on shared leadership in higher education to a white paper on the changing role of college and university faculty, the Pullias Center and the American Council of Education, the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities, have a long history of collaborative research aimed at fostering innovative, high-quality practice in higher education. Now, the Pullias and […]
Are you passionate about equity and inclusion? Would you like to be part of an interdisciplinary team, collaborating with faculty and administrators across the United States to diversify STEM graduate education? Come work as a project coordinator at the Pullias Center for Higher Education, one of the world’s leading research centers on higher education, for an opportunity to take part in […]