From a report on shared leadership in higher education to a white paper on the changing role of college and university faculty, the Pullias Center and the American Council of Education, the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities, have a long history of collaborative research aimed at fostering innovative, high-quality practice in higher education. Now, the Pullias and […]
Two Pullias Center faculty members were featured in a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities. Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the USC Rossier School of Education, and Darnell Cole, an associate professor of education at USC Rossier, both spoke at the University of Southern California’s Admissions, Race and Identity conference. […]
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 […]
A new study illuminates one powerful and effective way to address the STEM worker shortage and lack of diversity: Get students enrolled in bridge programs. Abstract | Full article HTML | Full article PDF Students who participate in college STEM summer bridge programs are twice as likely to pursue a STEM career, compared with students who don’t. That is according to a new national […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was one of the 10 education leaders asked by EdSource to comment on “what they think Gov. Jerry Brown’s most important contributions to education reforms in California have been, what major education issues remain unaddressed and what they are hoping for from incoming Gov. Gavin Newsom.” Here are Tierney’s perspectives: Gov. Jerry Brown’s most important contribution to education reform […]
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, […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted in an EdSource article titled “California higher education leaders have high hopes for Newsom’s spending plans”: Yet despite the state’s surplus, some experts think that Newsom will continue to pressure UC and CSU for more efficiencies, such as reducing the time it takes for students to graduate. “I think it’s inevitable that any governor — but […]
Zoë B. Corwin, a research associate professor at the Pullias Center, was quoted in an article in The Washington Post about summer bridge programs for first-generation college students: Successful summer programs for first-generation students need to make sure undergraduates feel cared for and connected, said Zoe Corwin, an associate professor with the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. For […]
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 […]
Are you passionate about equity and inclusion? Would you like to be part of an interdisciplinary team, collaborating with faculty and administrators across the United States to diversify STEM graduate education? Come work as a project coordinator at the Pullias Center for Higher Education, one of the world’s leading research centers on higher education, for an opportunity to take part in […]