Description
The Leveraging Technology and Engaging Students: Evaluating Covid-19 Recovery Efforts in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) project will provide actionable insights into the challenges and responses of LACCD to the Covid-19 pandemic.
About
A collaboration between the Pullias Center at USC, LACCD and Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, this project will address four research strands:
- Influences of the Covid-19 pandemic on LACCD, particularly enrollment, academic success and decision-making around engagement with LACCD
- Responses of LACCD to the challenges of Covid-19, particularly innovations in course modality and the relationship of those changes with student psychosocial outcomes and faculty wellbeing
- Impact of these changes on students, with a focus on the impact of online and hybrid course modalities on student academic outcomes
- Continued improvements and scaling, with a focus on costs, optimal proportion of distance education course offerings in LACCD’s overall schedule, and considerations for students choosing between modalities for a given course
The project will use a mix of casual, descriptive and mixed methods to answer research questions, drawing on LACCD administrative data, student and faculty survey responses, student and faculty focus groups, observations and public data.
Project News
Professor Tatiana Melguizo Memorial Service Set for April 8, 2024
Pullias Center and USC Establish Memorial Scholarship Honoring Professor Tatiana Melguizo
A Tribute to Tatiana: The Power of Building Deep, Lasting Relationships with Colleagues and Students
A Tribute to Tatiana: Valuing Connections and Relationships and Welcoming Opportunities for Learning and Growth
A Tribute to Tatiana: Doing Research to Enhance Students’ Experiences and Outcomes
A Tribute to Tatiana: Busting Organizational Barriers for Students in Math and STEM
A Tribute to Tatiana: An Unwavering and Deeply-felt Commitment to Students
Pullias Center partners with LACCD and researchers from Harvard’s CEPR to study Covid-19 recovery
Project Team
Tatiana Melguizo
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, USC
Deborah Harrington
Co-Principal Investigator
Dean for Student Success, LACCD
Christopher Avery
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, Harvard University
Jon Fullerton
Co-Principal Investigator
Research Professor, USC
Maury Pearl
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Vice Chancellor, LACCD
Soumya Mishra
Postdoctoral Scholar, USC
Partners
Los Angeles Community College District
Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University
Funder
The Leveraging Technology and Engaging Students: Evaluating Covid-19 Recovery Efforts in the Los Angeles Community College District project is fully funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305X220018 to the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
