Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, reflects on the Center’s 25th Anniversary in this tenth and final of a series of essays marking the occasion throughout the year. It is hard for me to believe that I have been a part of Pullias for 17 of its 25 years! Time cannot have flown more quickly. As […]
Vasti Torres, Ph.D. Professor at Indiana University, Editor for the Journal of College Student Development, current AERA Division J Vice President, and colleague of the Pullias Center, reflects on the Center’s 25th Anniversary in this ninth of a series of essays marking the occasion. In reflecting on the role that research centers serve within the higher education scholarly community, the first things […]
Carlos A. Galan, Academic Advisor at Yours in Soccer Foundation, PhD student in Higher Administration and Policy at UC Riverside, and a former colleague of the Pullias Center of Higher Education, reflects on the Center’s 25th Anniversary in this eight of a series of essays marking the occasion. It is not easy to put into words what the Pullias Center […]
Kristen Renn, currently a Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for Student Success Research at Michigan State University, and a former colleague of the Pullias Center of Higher Education, reflects on the Pullias Center’s 25th Anniversary in this seventh of a series of essays marking the occasion. Like many other readers of […]
James T. Minor, current Senior Strategist for Academic Success and Inclusive Excellence at the California State University, Chancellor’s Office, and a former research associate at the Pullias Center of Higher Education reflects on the Pullias Center’s 25th Anniversary in this sixth of a series of essays marking the occasion. Nearly twenty years ago I interviewed for a postdoctoral position in […]
Ronald E. Hallett, Professor of Education in the LaFetra College of Education at the University of La Verne and a research associate at the Pullias Center of Higher Education, reflects on the Pullias Center’s 25th Anniversary in this fifth of a series of essays marking the occasion. My research career began in the Pullias Center. I started as a research […]
It’s almost midnight as a final figure emerges from Waite Phillips Hall on the USC campus. He would be the last person to be in the offices of the Pullias Center for a while. The governor had just issued a stay at home order that took effect in under an hour. An unusually low and dense fog had settled in […]
Laura W. Perna, Centennial Presidential Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, reflects on the Pullias Center in this third of 12 anniversary reflections throughout 2020 marking the center’s 25th anniversary The opportunity to collaborate with the Pullias Center early in my career has had a lasting influence on my efforts to improve equity and […]
The current faculty reflects on the Pullias Center in this second of 12 anniversary reflections throughout 2020 marking the center’s 25th anniversary When the Pullias Center first opened its doors 25 years ago as the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, the organization had only 3 people on the team. A quarter century later and the Pullias Center consists of […]
William G. Tierney, University Professor Emeritus and the Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, shares his reflections on the center as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary. This is the first in a series of such reflections from key figures in the center’s past and present that will be shared throughout 2020. […]