Urban University Blog

Making Change in Urban Serving Universities

Change is in the air at America’s universities. Everyone is talking about institutional change, about transforming higher education to...

Revolutionizing the Role of the University: Collaboration to Advance Innovation in Higher Education

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

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...

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...

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...