Urban University Blog

Food Insecurity at Urban Universities: USU’s Collaborative Opportunity Grant

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

Two USU members have earned the coveted Seal of Excelencia, which recognizes institutions that intentionally serve and demonstrate...

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

Human Centered Design is an approach that focuses on creating solutions to identified issues by focusing on and designing with the end...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the recent protests against racism are inflection points for higher education. As students continue to face the...

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

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

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