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John Slaughter, Adrianna Kezar honored at Academic Honors Convocation

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 […]

A New vision for the Pullias Center

April 25, 2019March 20, 2020 pulliasadmin Pullias News adrian huerta adrianna kezar julie posselt tatiana melguizo william tierney zoe corwin

Big changes are happening at the Pullias Center in 2019. Currently co-directed by William G. Tierney, University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and Adrianna Kezar, Dean’s Professor of Higher Education, the Pullias Center will enter a new phase on June 30, 2019 when Tierney steps down as co-director, before retiring on December 31, 2019. At that time, Kezar will step [...]

The Delphi Project in Inside Higher Ed: Who Is Teaching Your Students and How Can You Support Them?

March 27, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured the work of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, a project of the Pullias Center that provides tools and resources to help create new faculty models and better support faculty off the tenure track to enhance higher education institutions. A better way to understand the […]

Adrianna Kezar: A Critical time to support non-tenure-track faculty

March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar voices her support for the right of non-tenure-track faculty to collectively bargain. by Adrianna Kezar At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, we firmly believe that public engagement is a responsibility of scholars and part of quality scholarship. With the recent news about the challenges adjunct faculty unions are facing at USC and at other institutions […]

Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: How to talk to non-tenure-track faculty

March 21, 2019September 11, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured research on non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar. Patch writes: First, we have to let NTT faculty tell their own stories in their own words. Sounds easy, but research by Adrianna Kezar and others shows that most studies of NTT faculty are not conducted by NTT faculty themselves. Nor […]

Applications open for 2019 Delphi Award

February 19, 2019July 8, 2019 pulliasadmin Awards, Changing faculty adrianna kezar daniel scott delphi project

Two awards of $15,000 each recognize noteworthy efforts to support non-tenure-track faculty. The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education today opened applications for the 2019 Delphi Award. The $15,000 cash award is given annually to two individuals or groups who have worked to support adjunct, contingent and non-tenure-track faculty in promoting student success. “Although non-tenure-track faculty […]

Delphi Award winners share best practices to support non-tenure-track faculty

February 12, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Publications adrianna kezar daniel scott delphi project

Harper College and California State University, Dominguez Hills detail the paths they took to improve working conditions and professional development for adjunct faculty on their campuses. Better opportunities for professional development. Equitable compensation. An inclusive campus culture. These are among the much-needed changes non-tenure-track faculty have called for on many college and university campuses. To help these institutions forge their paths […]

How student affairs departments can support non-tenure-track faculty

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Publications adrianna kezar daniel scott delphi project

A new guide by Daniel Scott and Adrianna Kezar details ways student affairs departments and non-tenure-track faculty can collaborate. Student affairs departments and faculty share an important goal: to support the success and engagement of their students. Yet while these two groups rely on each other for resources, skills and expertise, collaboration between them has become more challenging in the […]

Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe in Inside Higher Ed: An Overlooked solution for diversifying STEM

January 14, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar elizabeth holcombe stem

This op-ed by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar and research associate Elizabeth Holcombe was originally published in Inside Higher Ed on Jan. 14, 2019. For decades, researchers have tried to boost the very low success rates of first-generation, low-income and underserved minority students in STEM education in college. Yet while more students from these groups have been entering colleges and pursuing STEM majors, […]

New research: Changing academic culture, from diversity work to STEM reform

January 3, 2019January 23, 2019 pulliasadmin Academic governance & change, College access, Digital equity, Equity & Diversity, Publications, STEM reform adrianna kezar joseph kitchen julie posselt roman liera stem stem reform william tierney

Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle big topics in higher education, such as promoting racial diversity and performing diversity work on college and university campuses, addressing the influence of corporate culture on academic culture, and adapting to changing faculty trends. In addition, new papers tackle STEM education, from summer bridge programs to large-scale reform. Read the abstracts and excerpts for […]