Publications

First in the World: Improving Access to College through Games, Technology, and Social Media

William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin (2015)

A monograph about the Pullias Center’s project to develop and disseminate a college application game in schools across California through a Web-based platform. The project offers schools online tools to actively engage students in preparing for college.

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

Technological Innovations for College Access

Zoë Corwin, Marie Groark, Keith Frome (2015)

A discussion of useful online tools, challenges, and potential ways to use technological innovations to increase college-going and completion rates.

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

Launching the Mission Admission Challenge

Joint project of the Pullias Center for Higher Education (2016)

An overview of activities conducted and lessons learned from the first two years of a project using online tools to help students prepare for college, with insights into the process of conceptualizing and implementing a large-scale practitioner-oriented research project.

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

From Pre to Post: Putting the Data Pieces Together

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2016)

The Pullias Center presents a summary of the findings from a 2015 pre-Challenge survey.

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

Zooming Along: Next Steps for Data Collection

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2017)

This is a follow-up report to “From Pre to Post: Putting the Data Pieces Together” (October 2016) where we presented interim findings from data collection with students and teachers at a select group of treatment schools in the randomized controlled…

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

How is Technology Addressing the College Access Challenge?: A Review of the Landscape, Opportunities, and Gaps

Pullias Center for Higher Education and Get Schooled (2018)

Many digital tools aimed at helping high school students move on to college have been developed in recent years. But which tools are readily available and appropriate, especially for low-income students? This report offers a handy list, with descriptions of…

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

Data Transparency For Improving College Outcomes: Findings From A First In The World Study

Samantha Bernstein-Sierra, Zoë Corwin

This document gives a brief background on the Pullias Center’s FITW study, introduces the data challenges they encountered during the study, and presents four possible causes of these challenges based on interview and survey data.

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

AB 705 in the Los Angeles Community College District: Results from Fall 2019

Melguizo, T., Ching, C. D., Ngo, F., & Harrington, D.

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021)

This report describes early outcomes of AB705 implementation in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), one of the largest community college districts in the country. Using data on first-time-in-college (FTIC) students from Fall 2017, Fall 2018, and Fall 2019,…

Equity for Community College Students Reports

Progress and Potential: Considering the Question of Racial Equity in CA AB705

Melguizo, T., Cooper, S., Kurlaender, M., Bensimon, E.M.

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2020)

California’s movement toward ending remedial education in community colleges through Assembly Bill 705 employs the power of policy as a means for racial justice. It is amply documented that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students have for many years been disproportionately…

Equity for Community College Students Reports

College-Going Culture in a Digital Era: Strategies for Schools

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2018)

High schools today have a unique challenge: to equip students with the knowledge and tools they need to prepare for, apply to and enroll in college—all while proving them with digital resources and skills essential for the 21st century. This…

Equity in College Access and Success Reports

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First in the World: Improving Access to College through Games, Technology, and Social Media

Technological Innovations for College Access

Launching the Mission Admission Challenge

From Pre to Post: Putting the Data Pieces Together

Zooming Along: Next Steps for Data Collection

How is Technology Addressing the College Access Challenge?: A Review of the Landscape, Opportunities, and Gaps

Data Transparency For Improving College Outcomes: Findings From A First In The World Study

AB 705 in the Los Angeles Community College District: Results from Fall 2019

Progress and Potential: Considering the Question of Racial Equity in CA AB705

College-Going Culture in a Digital Era: Strategies for Schools

First in the World: Improving Access to College through Games, Technology, and Social Media

Technological Innovations for College Access

Launching the Mission Admission Challenge

From Pre to Post: Putting the Data Pieces Together

Zooming Along: Next Steps for Data Collection

How is Technology Addressing the College Access Challenge?: A Review of the Landscape, Opportunities, and Gaps

Data Transparency For Improving College Outcomes: Findings From A First In The World Study

AB 705 in the Los Angeles Community College District: Results from Fall 2019

Progress and Potential: Considering the Question of Racial Equity in CA AB705

College-Going Culture in a Digital Era: Strategies for Schools