Publications
Since 1995, the Pullias Center has engaged in action-oriented projects and research to improve college access and student success, promote equity and diversity, and enhance the performance of postsecondary institutions. The Pullias Center publishes a range of reports, guides, briefs, tool kits and more informed by this higher education research. We have created more than 150 publications and all are free to download here.
For journal articles and book chapters authored by our faculty, please visit their individual pages.
Gaming The System: Fostering College Knowledge Through Play
Zoë Blumberg Corwin, William G. Tierney, Elizabeth Swensen, Sean Bouchard, Tracy Fullerton, Gisele Ragusa (2012)
A report to outline the development of the Collegeology Games project and share emerging research findings conducted to ascertain the effects of the games on…
Ready Or Not, Here We Play: The Impact of Collegeology Games on College Readiness, Access and Student Success
William G. Tierney, Gisele Ragusa, Zoë Blumberg Corwin, Tracy Fullerton (2013)
The latest report on Collegeology Games.
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…
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.
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,…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gaming The System: Fostering College Knowledge Through Play
Zoë Blumberg Corwin, William G. Tierney, Elizabeth Swensen, Sean Bouchard, Tracy Fullerton, Gisele Ragusa (2012)
A report to outline the development of the Collegeology Games project and share emerging research findings conducted to ascertain the effects of the games on students’ college going efficacy.
Ready Or Not, Here We Play: The Impact of Collegeology Games on College Readiness, Access and Student Success
William G. Tierney, Gisele Ragusa, Zoë Blumberg Corwin, Tracy Fullerton (2013)
The latest report on Collegeology Games.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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