Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, is participating in a special webinar titled “Race and Crisis at a Crossroads” on Monday, June 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm ET. In collaboration with American University, the American Council on Education (ACE) is hosting this webinar to discuss the intersecting issues of race and crisis leadership in higher education. The event will […]
Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the annotated bibliography is designed to highlight correlations between the working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty and the outcomes and experiences of their students. Originally published in 2013, the initial bibliography highlighted five correlated findings on student outcomes that have been tied to negative working conditions for […]
Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, has joined Sharon Fries-Britt, Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland at College Park, and Lorelle Espinosa, Vice President for Research at the American Council on Education, to co-author an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed. In “Are Campus Leaders Prepared for the Impact of the Racial Crisis?” the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tatiana Melguizo, Francisco (Paco) Martorell, Elise Swanson, & Adrianna Kezar (2020) This report summarizes the main findings of the Promoting At-Promise Student Success Project (PASS), formerly known as the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities (TSLC) Study. The project seeks to explore, document, and better understand whether the PASS program, a comprehensive college transition program at three University of Nebraska campuses, translates into […]
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has kindly gifted a $200,000 grant to the American Council on Education (ACE) in collaboration with The Pullias Center for Higher Education. The grant will fund Phase I of multi-year research, currently underway, aimed at developing practice-based insights relative to equity-minded leadership in higher education. Lorelle Espinosa, Vice President for Research at ACE, and Adrianna Kezar, Director […]
The TIAA Institute has awarded the Pullias Center for Higher Education a one-year $50,000 grant through the end of 2020 to study and document cases of institutions that have made significant changes in policies, programs, and practices to better support non-tenure track faculty (NTTF), which includes contingent and adjunct faculty. Adrianna Kezar, professor at the Rossier School of Education, director […]
The Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting took place recently in Washington, D.C. and included a session with winners of the 2019 Delphi Award from Santa Monica College and Penn State. The event was moderated by Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, and Ashley Finley, Senior Advisor to the President and Vice President of Strategic Planning and […]
Adrianna Kezar, Dean’s Professor of Leadership and Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, has been named the new Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at USC Rossier. Kezar will be installed as holder of the endowed professorship—the highest academic award that a university can bestow on a faculty member—on a date still to be determined. Read the full story […]