Urban University Blog

Deep Collaboration Between Campus and Community, Visually Depicted

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

Building a Region: CSU5 for Greater Los Angeles

Building a Region: The CSU 5 Five California State University campuses serving Los Angeles have committed to working collaboratively to...

Connecting Students to the Labor Market: The Talent Development Network

How can we better connect higher education to employers to the benefit of students, businesses and the city? USU put that question to its...

Advancing Equity in STEM through Engagement

Photo Credit: Georgia State University How do we best advance equity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)? While we’ve...

What Does it Mean to Anchor a Community?

Photo Credit: University of Illinois at Chicago Anchor institutions enhance the economic, social and cultural well-being of their home...

Getting Better At Getting Better: President Mark Rosenberg, FIU, on Advancing Student Performance

Photo credit: Florida International University One of the lessons that I learned as Chancellor of the State University System of Florida...