Student turns good fortune into selfless act How this college student spent her Charge On! award money is quite surprising and undeniably heartwarming. Evelyn was awarded a $1,000 prize for her participation in an innovative research project conducted by USC Pullias Center for Higher Education, the non-profit Get Schooled, and California State University, Dominguez Hills. She could have spent her […]
USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, in conjunction with Annenberg School for Communication and the Tony Hawk Foundation, recently published a white paper as part of their Beyond the Board: Skateboarding, Schools, and Society study. The white paper provides context for the larger study that entails interviews with over 100 skateboarders in East Los Angeles, Gallup, Detroit, Houston, and the Boston […]
The Pullias Center is pleased to announce it’s new research affiliate Dr. Jennifer Keup, Director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Drs’ Kezar and Keup have collaborated on the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities Project, a $7 million dollar project funded by the Susan T. Buffett Foundation, where Keup is an Advisory Board member. […]
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 […]
Pullias Center faculty member Tatiana Melguizo is lending her expertise to a national committee with the goal to help students succeed in post-secondary math courses. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine named Melguizo to a committee to plan and conduct a public workshop for stakeholders in math education titled Increasing Success in Developmental Mathematics. As a part of […]
Pullias Center research assistant Theresa E. Hernandez was one of two graduate students from USC to meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. to advocate for graduate education last month. Hernandez, along with USC Price PhD candidate Andrew Eisenlohr and USC Vice Provost Sally Pratt, joined about 40 other deans and graduate students to participate in the Council of Graduate Schools’ […]
Most community colleges students come from the bottom half of the socioeconomic ladder, and enter their college studies with hopes of social mobility. Yet these colleges receive much less federal and state funding and spend far less per student than four-year institutions. The effects of this underfunding can be seen in completion rates: Only 38 percent of the 9 million […]
Pullias Center researchers debuted an innovative digital initiative to bolster first-year persistence at California State University, Dominguez Hills last fall. Called Charge On!, the social campaign is now starting to get initial data—and received coverage on KPCC and LAist, with quotes from Pullias faculty member Zoë B. Corwin, the lead researcher on this project: Charge On reached a milestone last week. On […]
Congratulations to Pullias Center faculty member Julie Posselt, who recently received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of education, with a focus on higher education! Posselt is a national expert on graduate admissions and the author of Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping (Harvard University Press, 2016). Rooted in sociological and organizational theory, her research program examines institutionalized inequalities […]