Urban University Blog

A hallmark of USU’s programming, the Collaborative Opportunity Grant (COG) is a seed funding initiative that leverages the role of urban...

How does one summarize the lessons learned over a month of discussions, activities, learning new theories, and sharing promising...

The fourth session in the USU Summer meeting series explored how applying a continuous improvement frame to student success efforts,...

What have urban serving universities learned from the COVID-19 crisis that can inform strategic planning for the future? What inequities...

Leaders in student success know that the number of college students experiencing basic needs insecurity is much higher than the general...

As many companies shut down and millions of employees are now without a job,  recent graduates from the Class of 2020 fear for their...

Written By: Winston Savoy The global COVID-19 pandemic has shifted higher education through uncharted waters in 2020, and many colleges...

Although one hundred years apart, COVID-19 and the Spanish influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, share similarities. Both...

As students prepare to walk across makeshift stages in their homes for virtual graduation ceremonies, the COVID-19 crisis has interrupted...

The global pandemic caused by the coronavirus has overturned many lives in just a few months. A rise in mental health issues has occurred...

Many colleges in the United States have launched food pantries in order to combat the growing problem of food insecurity among college...

As a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, university leaders have had to move to remote learning, and navigate uncertainty around how...

Help us Build the Covid 19 Challenges List! Given the speed of change of the Covid 19 pandemic, university leadership, faculty, staff and...

According to statistical modelers, all models are wrong but some are more useful than others.  A pandemic model can help colleges and...

Below we have aggregated and organized campus communications to provide examples other universities can use. NOTE:   This is a draft for...

​ ​​​Calling All USU Innovation and Maker Spaces! ​​Our friends at dpict—a design and facilitation firm— and The Value Web network would...

Well before Covid 19, mental health had already established itself as a major challenge and priority on college campuses.  With Covid 19,...

During the Covid 19 pandemic, many students do not have access to safe housing or any housing at all, face job and/or income losses as...

In 2017, in the wake of Hurricanes Irma, Maria and Harvey, Scott Cowen, President Emeritus of Tulane University, spoke with USU leaders...

Managing the pandemic requires providing accurate, up-to-date information that can be communicated in real time.  And the ability to ask...