A $300K grant from ECMC Foundation will support a study of best practices to improve college persistence and graduation rates for minority men For several decades, men have been earning far fewer college degrees than women. Men are less likely to enroll in or graduate from college—and for men of color, this trend has been especially alarming. In the California […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “How scandal and severance enrich private-college presidents”: But William G. Tierney, a professor and co-director of the U. of Southern California’s Pullias Center for Higher Education, says governing boards need to better communicate with their college communities after presidential upheavals occur. Just as he would expect to […]
In a Q&A about strategies for better assessment of online courses in Inside Higher Ed, Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted about faculty development for adjunct instructors: As Adrianna Kezar has written, faculty development can go a long way to eliminating the worst aspects of the growing adjunct situation, but it cannot resolve the long-term structural issues, and this needs to be […]
This op-ed, authored by Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney, was originally published in University World News on Dec. 7, 2018. What should be the stance of a university when one of its faculty calls for peaceful protest? In late 2014, two professors, Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man, and Baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming called for a series of peaceful demonstrations […]
Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor about how colleges can adapt to a more diverse, “post-millennial” student population on campuses: School pride is strong on the suburban campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County – and not just because of a history-making basketball upset last year. UMBC, and its president, Freeman Hrabowski, have earned national recognition for their commitment to racial […]
USC Trojan Family highlights the work of Pullias Center research affiliate Neftalie Williams and collaborator on Skateboarding, Schools, and Society, a research project funded by the Tony Hawk Foundation led by Pullias faculty member Zoë B. Corwin A new study at USC’s Pullias Center for Higher Education has [Pullias Center research associate Neftalie] Williams partnering with Zoe Corwin, research associate professor at the USC Rossier […]
This blog post by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was originally published in the Faculty Guild’s blog on Nov. 28, 2018. Given that the mission of most colleges and universities is teaching and learning, one would assume a primary part of their culture would be professional development around teaching. But, teaching expertise has evolved to mean expertise in content – leaving pedagogy largely […]
The Cal-Bridge program, a National Science Foundation-project on which Pullias faculty member Julie Posselt serves as co-principal investigator, was featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education: M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is well into her Ph.D. program in physics at the University of California Irvine, and she gives credit to participation in a bridge program that helps underrepresented minority students earn doctoral degrees […]
Recent works by Pullias researchers tackle college access in the digital age, support programs for STEM students and challenges for women leaders in higher education. Read the abstracts and excerpts for these papers and find out more about the projects that inspired them: Corwin, Z., & Maruco, T. J. (2018). Navigating the tension between scale and school context in digital […]
Watch live here. You are invited to attend the 41st Pullias Lecture featuring William G. Tierney, the founding director and current co-director of the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education! The lecture, titled “Higher Education for Democracy,” will take place on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, at USC Town & Gown. Doors will open at 11 am. A complimentary buffet luncheon will […]