Pullias co-directors contribute essays to a provocative new collection on scholarship and advocacy. Should higher education scholars remain detached, data-focused researchers — or should they take action to advance social change? A new collection of essays, Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship (Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2018), delves into these and other […]
This blog post, authored by Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar and research assistant Daniel Scott, was originally published in Higher Education Today, a blog by American Council on Education, April 18, 2018. As college and university presidents face a plethora of challenges, the need to address contingent faculty roles and related work policies is growing in urgency. The shift to non-tenure-track […]
Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar and research assistant Daniel Scott announced The Delphi Award on the American Council on Education’s Higher Education Today blog on April 5, 2018. Part of The Delphi Project on Changing Faculty and Student Success, the Delphi Award is designed to recognize campuses that have made changes to their policies and practices for college instruction, particularly […]
Sarita E. Brown, founding president of Excelencia in Education, gave the keynote at the 40th Pullias Lecture at USC on March 27, 2018. In her keynote, titled “Pursuing Equity in Higher Education Using a Latino Lens,” Brown said we need faculty and leaders who believe “in the capacity of the higher education section to be a gateway for equity in […]
Pullias researchers coedit a new book that advocates for bottom-up change. Available July 2018. Preorder from Stylus for a 30% discount with the code EPSPRE. What is the role of a public scholar? A new book proposes a new paradigm of public scholarship for our time, one that shifts from the notion of the public intellectual to the model of […]
The annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association takes place April 13-17, 2018, in New York City, and researchers from the Pullias Center will be presenting on a wide variety of topics, from “Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education” to “Evaluating the Effects of a Game-Based Intervention on Free Application for Federal Student Aid Completion” to “The Evolution […]
Gehrke and Kezar examine how involvement in four cross-institutional STEM faculty communities of practice is associated with local departmental and institutional change for faculty members belonging to these communities. Read the paper in American Educational Research Journal.
Elrod and Kezar discuss the need for cross-functional team works for institutional change. Download the ebook at AAC&U.
Congratulations to Kezar for winning the Research Achievement Award and to Julie R. Posselt for winning the Promising Scholar/Early Career Award at ASHE. The Awards Reception and Champagne Toast is on November 10, 2017 in Houston Marriott Marquis.
