Pullias Center’s founding director to retire from USC

William G. Tierney will retire from the University of Southern California after 26 years of service at the USC Rossier School of Education. He will step down as co-director of the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education on June 30, 2019, remaining on the USC faculty as University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education until December 31, 2019, when […]

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Pullias Center welcomes 7 new scholars

The Pullias Center for Higher Education is proud to announce the addition of seven new researchers! First, we welcome two new postdoctoral research associates, Román Liera and James Dean Ward. Liera, a qualitative researcher who studies racial equity in student outcomes and faculty participation, works on projects that promote equity in graduate education with Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the […]

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Pullias is hiring: Postdoctoral scholar wanted for collaborative research project

Are you passionate about education research that’s closely tied to real-life practice? Would you like to be part of a multi-campus team, collaborating with researchers at USC, UCLA and Claremont Graduate University—as well as practitioners at Los Angeles Unified School District and Los Angeles Community College District—to improve public education outcomes? Come work as a postdoctoral scholar at the Pullias Center […]

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Pullias is hiring: Postdoctoral scholar wanted to join innovative research team

Are you passionate about improving college access and success for first-generation and low-income students? Would you like to be part of a close-knit team, using rigorous and innovative research methods to catalyze real-life innovations in education? Come work as a postdoctoral scholar at the Pullias Center for Higher Education, one of the world’s leading research centers on higher education with one-of-a-kind […]

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