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Student Parents in Community Colleges: Building Support Systems to Ensure Education Success

March 16, 2022March 16, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News student parents adrian huerta community college equity

By Adrian Huerta In 2018, my colleague Cecilia Rios-Aguilar at UCLA started a multi-year research project on student parents in community colleges with support from a seed grant from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We sought to understand how student parents make sense of their career and educational experiences in a two-year college. We interviewed […]

USC’s Pullias Center to Focus on Support Systems for Student Parents with New Grant from Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation

March 15, 2022March 18, 2022 smacphee Equity for Community College Students, College access, Equity & Diversity, Pullias News student parents adrian huerta community college equity

Community college student parents experience many struggles and challenges that contribute to being less likely to earn a college degree, credential or certificate, but are more likely to thrive with targeted institutional support systems. The Pullias Center will document the best practices for student parents with support from a grant provided by the Leonetti/O’Connell Family Foundation. The study will focus […]

LBCC & USC Receive Nearly $1 Million for New Innovative Education Program for Gang-associated Youth

January 25, 2022February 9, 2022 rmichelman College access, Projects, Pullias News pullias news adrian huerta

The LBCC Phoenix Scholars will be initiated thanks to U.S. Department of Education grant Long Beach City College (LBCC) and the University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education’s Pullias Center for Higher Education will receive $990,000 over the next three years from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to collaborate on a […]

New Paper Examines Individual, Institutional, and Cultural Factors that Shape Students’ College Experiences for Men of Color

April 20, 2021September 22, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News college success adrian huerta Men of Color racial equity

Empowering Men of Color in Higher Education: A Focus on Psychological, Social, and Cultural Factors provides examples of key findings related to psychological, social, and cultural factors contributing to enrollment and degree attainment issues for men of color in higher education. The paper encourages practitioners to pause and further recognize internal beliefs around men of color, as well as how […]

Pullias Center Continues Work Towards Improving Services and Support for Student Men of Color

April 19, 2021April 20, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News college success adrian huerta Men of Color racial equity

Upcoming webinar planned for California State University teams as part of academic year project The next Men of Color webinar will be an invite-only event for teams across the CSU’s Student Services Network. Taking place on April 22, the research team at the Pullias Center, led by Adrian Huerta, USC Assistant Professor of Education, will address capacity-building and action plan […]

New Brief Examines Collegiate Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents

March 30, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias News student parents college success adrian huerta community college

The publication is one of a pair of briefs from UC Davis seeking to build broader understanding of the challenges student parents face in higher education. Like a Juggler: The Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents in a California Community College provides findings from a large mixed-method study to explore how student parents navigated community college, received information, and made […]

Adrian Huerta: What Works for Men of Color in Higher Education?

April 28, 2020April 19, 2021 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrian huerta Men of Color

For the last 20 years, I have volunteered in schools and community centers, served as a mentor to young men of color, been invited to speak in middle and high school classrooms, and have tried to understand how we can get more men of color into, and graduated from, college. All this to say that increasing access and success to […]

Pullias Center Team Keeps Focus on Empowering Men of Color

April 28, 2020April 29, 2020 pulliasadmin College access, Pullias News adrian huerta Men of Color

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 […]

Research Team Explores College Knowledge Among Gang-Associated Latino Boys

April 28, 2020 pulliasadmin Pullias News adrian huerta Men of Color

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 […]

Study Takes Aim at Understanding and Improving the Educational Experience for Student-Parents

April 28, 2020May 6, 2020 pulliasadmin Pullias News adrian huerta

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 […]