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“How Academic Freedom Will Make American Higher Education Great Again” Webinar Set for October 28th at 12 pm PT

October 16, 2025

Bill Tierney, University Professor Emeritus at the USC Rossier School of Education, will speak about the roots of academic freedom in the 20th century, discuss …

Utilizing a Peer Mentoring Model to Support Low-income Students

May 1, 2024

In an era of limited resources and strained budgets, it is also imperative that institutions invest in evidence-based strategies proven to address challenges low-income students …

Pullias Center Receives $400,000 Grant from ECMC Foundation to Continue Shared Equity Leadership Research

April 10, 2024

The Pullias Center for Higher Education and Principal Investigator Adrianna Kezar have received a multi-year, $400,000 grant from the ECMC Foundation to continue their ground-breaking …

“Starting Shared Equity Leadership: Insights from Research and Practice” Webinar Recording Now Available

April 8, 2024

Are you interested in learning more about how to start implementing Shared Equity Leadership (SEL) on your own campus? This webinar will review what we …

Pullias Center Invitational Conference Highlights Key Successes and Challenges of AB705 Implementation in LACCD

February 17, 2023

The 3rd annual USC/LACCD Research-Practice Partnership Conference on AB705 brought together more than 50 researchers, faculty, staff, and administrators. Taking place in December 2021, the …

Gangs, College and Research-to-Practice

February 6, 2023

In 2019, Adrian H. Huerta started a bold new project: Explore the educational pathways for former gang members and how they achieved college success. Starting …

What Do Logics Have To Do With It?

February 3, 2023

For some time now, researchers — including those on our team — have shown that developmental education (DE) courses are generally ineffective, inefficient, and inequitable, …

Taking 12th Grade Math Opens Doors to Higher Education, Research Finds

January 31, 2023

Pullias Center’s Tatiana Melguizo partnered with UCLA-led study following nearly 27,000 L.A. Unified students yields insights that can help inform education policy Students who take …

The Emancipatory Power of Collaboration in Educational Research

January 9, 2023

January 1, 2023 marked the beginning of my second year as a tenure-track faculty member and member of the Pullias Center. As a newly-minted member …

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