Urban University Blog

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...

Amidst the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, our urban serving universities are rising to the challenge and rapidly innovating to...

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...

Accelerating technological advances, population changes across many dimensions, greater economic, social and climate volatility and the...

For low-income students, lacking a small amount of money can determine if they stay in college or drop out. Even when students receive...

Changing workforce demands, growing numbers of underrepresented students on campus, and national demographic shifts have provided a new...

A quick glimpse at headlines from the fall of 2017 reveals the rapidly changing political, economic, social and technological...

Public safety concerns all communities across the United States. Over the past decade, people’s sense of safety has been in decline. Yet,...

Advancements in technology have often led to technological unemployment. A new object or machine is invented that can accomplish a task...

At the USU summer meeting, we partnered with APLU’s Council on Engagement and Outreach, to dig deep into the topics of resiliency and...