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The Role of Relational Closeness in Career Development Among Low-income Students

October 6, 2025

A key reason why students enroll in college is to prepare for their future careers. Students’ support networks, connections, and relationships can shape how their …

Zoë Corwin Receives Prestigious USC Mentoring Award

May 3, 2024

USC Rossier and Pullias Center Research Professor Zoë Corwin has been awarded a distinguished 2024 USC Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students.

Financial Well-Being of Low-income Students: A Contextual Viewpoint

May 3, 2024

Many low-income students rely heavily on financial aid for college access. However, the complex system of financial aid often leaves students vulnerable to financial stress; …

Congratulations to our 2024 Pullias Center Graduates

May 2, 2024

This May, the Pullias Center is proud to have four of our hard-working PhD students graduating from the Rossier School of Education, as well as …

Meet Pullias Researchers at AERA 2023, April 13-16

April 13, 2023

Join Pullias Center researchers at this year’s AERA conference: Advancing Critical Understandings of Community College Students Thursday, April 13, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (6:00 to …

Pullias Expands Change Leadership Toolkit Project with Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

April 13, 2023

The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) is launching an expansion of the Change Leadership Toolkit, with a $250,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Change Leadership Toolkit (CLT) project, initially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a guide and resource library that helps support institutions […]

Pullias Center Exploration of Shared Equity Leadership with ACE to Continue with Support from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations

April 13, 2023

The American Council on Education (ACE), in collaboration with the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) is launching phase two of a multi-year research effort aimed at developing practice-based insights relative to Shared Equity Leadership in higher education. The continued work between the two organizations is being supported by a grant […]

New Developments in Shared Equity Leadership

April 13, 2023

New Reports and Webinars Explore Accountability, Roles in SEL and Capacity Building Over the past two years, Pullias Center Director Adrianna Kezar, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Elizabeth Holcombe, former graduate student Jude Paul Dizon (now faculty at Rutgers University), along with grad students Jordan Harper and Natsumi Ueda, have been working on a next phase study of Shared Equity Leadership (SEL). […]

New Report Examines Impact of Basic Needs Assistance to Community College Students

March 31, 2023

USC’s Pullias Center and Sol Price Center for Social Innovation report provides timely evidence that additional funds help students achieve academic goals A new report …

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