Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education about a new report she co-authored that explores what led to the University of Missouri’s 2015-16 racial crisis: Many campus leaders will simply create a task force and put together a report after a racial crisis because that’s what they believe will resolve the issues at hand, said Adrianna Kezar, a […]
Adrianna Kezar, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California and co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, is the co-author of a new report released today that explores what led to the University of Missouri’s 2015-16 racial crisis and how the institution has since responded, offering recommendations to college and university leaders who strive to […]
Recent movies like mid90s, Minding the Gap and Skate Kitchen have highlighted the life-changing effect skateboarding and skate culture can have on youth. Now, a research project from the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education aims to pin down on a more concrete level the impact skateboarding has on young people—through a national survey of skateboarding youth. Launched Nov. 2, this […]
William G. Tierney will retire from the University of Southern California after 26 years of service at the USC Rossier School of Education. He will step down as co-director of the USC Pullias Center for Higher Education on June 30, 2019, remaining on the USC faculty as University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education until December 31, 2019, when […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education is proud to announce the addition of seven new researchers! First, we welcome two new postdoctoral research associates, Román Liera and James Dean Ward. Liera, a qualitative researcher who studies racial equity in student outcomes and faculty participation, works on projects that promote equity in graduate education with Julie Posselt, an assistant professor of higher education at the […]
The 43rd annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education takes place Nov. 14-17, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. This year’s event is particularly special for the Pullias Center because Pullias Center co-director William G. Tierney will be honored with the Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award! In addition, researchers from the Pullias Center will be presenting on a […]
This book review, authored by Pullias Center research assistant Aireale Rodgers, was originally published in The TRiiBE on Oct. 18, 2018. This summer, two weeks before I moved to Los Angeles from my native Chicago for graduate school, doctors diagnosed my great-aunt Margie Britten with cancer. Two months later, she went into hospice care without much time left to live. My […]
William G. Tierney, co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education, has been awarded the prestigious Howard R. Bowen Distinguished Career Award for 2018 by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Established to honor an individual “whose professional life has been devoted in substantial part to the study of higher education and whose career has significantly advanced the field through extraordinary […]
Tatiana Melguizo will join a team of education researchers and practitioners to investigate students’ educational pathways from middle school to college. Are middle school students placed in honors math more likely to declare STEM majors in college? Do specific high school math courses help struggling students successfully transition to college-level math? Is a high school student who takes financial algebra […]