May 8, 2020Preparing the Class of 2020 for the New WorkforceAs students prepare to walk across makeshift stages in their homes for virtual graduation ceremonies, the COVID-19 crisis has interrupted...
May 5, 2020Universities Strategies to Support Students’ Mental Health Amid the PandemicThe global pandemic caused by the coronavirus has overturned many lives in just a few months. A rise in mental health issues has occurred...
May 1, 2020Addressing College Student Food Insecurity during a PandemicMany colleges in the United States have launched food pantries in order to combat the growing problem of food insecurity among college...
Apr 28, 2020Great Ideas from our USU Members – April 2020Amidst the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, our urban serving universities are rising to the challenge and rapidly innovating to...
Apr 24, 2020Supporting Successful College Admissions and Transitions Amidst COVID-19As a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, university leaders have had to move to remote learning, and navigate uncertainty around how...
Apr 21, 2020Covid 19 Issues for the University Enterprise: Crowdsourcing the ListHelp us Build the Covid 19 Challenges List! Given the speed of change of the Covid 19 pandemic, university leadership, faculty, staff and...
Apr 15, 2020Pandemic Modeling: Charting the Course of Covid 19According to statistical modelers, all models are wrong but some are more useful than others. A pandemic model can help colleges and...
Apr 13, 2020Campus Communications During Covid 19: Examples by Category (DRAFT PAGE)Below we have aggregated and organized campus communications to provide examples other universities can use. NOTE: This is a draft for...
Apr 1, 2020 University Maker Space & Medical Center Network Coordination Calling All USU Innovation and Maker Spaces! Our friends at dpict—a design and facilitation firm— and The Value Web network would...
Mar 26, 2020Mental Health and Supporting Student Well-being Resources during Covid 19Well before Covid 19, mental health had already established itself as a major challenge and priority on college campuses. With Covid 19,...
Mar 23, 2020Resources to Help Meet Students’ Basic Needs During the Covid 19 PandemicDuring 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...
Mar 21, 2020Lessons from Hurricane Katrina for Navigating Covid 19: The Case of TulaneIn 2017, in the wake of Hurricanes Irma, Maria and Harvey, Scott Cowen, President Emeritus of Tulane University, spoke with USU leaders...
Mar 20, 2020A Free Web Chatbot to Keep Students Informed on Covid 19Managing the pandemic requires providing accurate, up-to-date information that can be communicated in real time. And the ability to ask...
Mar 16, 2020Navigating to the Future: A University Roadmap to Deliver 21st Century SkillsAccelerating technological advances, population changes across many dimensions, greater economic, social and climate volatility and the...
Mar 9, 2020Going for Impact: Lessons from Piloting Completion Grants at Nine UniversitiesFor low-income students, lacking a small amount of money can determine if they stay in college or drop out. Even when students receive...
Apr 6, 2018Redefining Student Success: APLU Launches Collaborative Initiative Focused on College CompletionChanging workforce demands, growing numbers of underrepresented students on campus, and national demographic shifts have provided a new...
Jan 24, 2018How State Policy Can Support the Priorities of Urban Serving UniversitiesA quick glimpse at headlines from the fall of 2017 reveals the rapidly changing political, economic, social and technological...
Dec 22, 2017University Public Safety Partnerships that Advance Student SuccessPublic safety concerns all communities across the United States. Over the past decade, people’s sense of safety has been in decline. Yet,...
Dec 19, 2017 Advancements in Automation: Potential Impacts on Workforce and EducationAdvancements in technology have often led to technological unemployment. A new object or machine is invented that can accomplish a task...
Dec 15, 2017Check List 2: Campus-Community Relationships to Build ResiliencyAt the USU summer meeting, we partnered with APLU’s Council on Engagement and Outreach, to dig deep into the topics of resiliency and...