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The Power of Language: Transforming Practitioner Consciousness and Institutional Structures to Advance Equity

March 11, 2025

By Steve Desir How educational organizations conceptualize, discuss and implement their commitments to equity has been a contested issue throughout the history of higher education. …

Pullias Center New Faculty Appointments and Promotions

January 8, 2024

Please join us in celebrating a trio of new appointments and promotions at the Pullias Center! Well-deserved kudos to Dr. Julie Posselt, who was recently promoted to Professor of Education at the Rossier School of Education, Dr. Ron Hallett, who joins the Center as Research Professor, and Dr. Elizabeth Holcombe, promoted to Senior Research Associate. […]

Equity in Graduate Education Consortium Expands Support for Systemic Change

November 29, 2023

Funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation enables Posselt and team at the Pullias Center for Higher Education to build tools and grow its network …

The Educational Consequences of Early Contact with the Criminal Punishment System

November 27, 2023

With funding from AERA and NSF, research continues into the long-term negative consequences of juvenile arrest on college enrollment By Royel M. Johnson Earlier this …

USC’s Pullias Center Awarded $1.5 Million from the National Science Foundation to Develop and Test National Survey on Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments

June 10, 2022

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted the Pullias Center for Higher Education $1.5 Million to develop and pilot a national survey that will provide …

Dr. Adrian H. Huerta Named NAEd/Spencer Fellow by the National Academy of Education

June 2, 2022

Dr. Adrian H. Huerta, Assistant Professor in the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education, has been selected as a …

Dr. John Brooks Slaughter Honored by USC Rossier and Pullias Center Colleagues on His Retirement

May 26, 2022

Dr. John Brooks Slaughter, USC University Professor and Dean’s Professor of Education and Engineering, recently announced his retirement after a distinguished 66 year career. Dr. …

From Mattering to Mobilizing: On the evolution of our skate study research

May 10, 2022

A year ago, I wrote about a new participatory action research study (PAR) we had just launched through the Pullias Center called Mattering in the Margins: Skateboarders’ Stories of …

STEM Education Needs a Dose of Humanities

May 6, 2022

Dr. Slaughter has served as the USC Dean’s Professor of Education and Engineering since 2010, and recently announced his retirement, effective June 2022. Professor Slaughter’s …

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