Urban University Blog

What are the biggest risk factors for students dropping out? And what can institutions do to keep students on track? To find out, five...

Collaborating for Change, we are releasing a series of resources to advance student success. One of the most under-recognized and growing...

Key Lessons The change process is: Student-centered Collaborative, both across campus and between campus and community Enbedded in the...

Goldie Blumenstyk, senior writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education, moderated presentations from three public urban universities. ...

Georgia State University (GSU) is taking a leading role in response to dramatic demographic shifts in the Southeast United States....

Photo Courtesy of the University of Illinois at Chicago Transitioning from high school to college is rarely seamless.  Many students...

Sona Andrews, Provost, Portland State University, winner of the 2015 innovation pitch competition.  Photo Courtesy of APLU When Portland...

Florida international University (FIU) knew it had a teaching problem.  It even had a solution.  Bringing the two together was the...

A picture is worth a thousand words.  This one has 1,002. A bright-eyed Latina stands radiant in graduation cap and gown, her arms raised...

Photo Courtesy of the University of Illinois at Chicago They are not a club but enjoy a unique membership as part of a higher education...

Portland State University Life Sciences Building In 2014 a cohort of seven public urban research institutions embarked on a bold journey...

Photo credit: Georgia State University Nearly everyone has had, or will have, an unexpected financial need. The car breaks down.  A child...

Meaghan Duff, Executive Director, Personalized Learning Consortium Is personalized learning the answer to helping your campus reach,...

At the USU Summer meeting, our speakers took a microscope to university-city partnerships and we used a graphic recorder to document...

When I think about innovation, it has a dynamic sound. Something in motion, letting our creativity take flight to create new ideas. ...