Urban University Blog

Aug 26, 2017

The Future Ready Campus: Opportunities + Outcomes = Student Success

How can we connect student success outcomes, return on investment, and strategic resource allocation in a way that sustains the...

May 15, 2017

What Can Leaders Do to Improve Campus Climate?

In late 2015, the University of Missouri system president Tim Wolfe resigned after weeks of student protests. What were the students’...

Apr 7, 2017

Supporting Minority Postdocs

Nearly 50 years ago, the National Academies described postdocs as the “invisible university,” because their contributions to cutting-edge...

Mar 17, 2017

USU Heads West: The Frontier Set

What does it mean to be a pioneer? For most, this label conjures up an image of intrepid explorers, leaving behind their known world to...

Jan 27, 2017

Diverse Faculty Hiring: Promising Practices

A diverse faculty body is essential for excellence in research, teaching, service, and patient care, and contributes to a climate of...

Dec 16, 2016

Addressing Unconscious Bias in Higher Education

Whether you like it or not, everyone has bias. The way we perceive the world is influenced by the environments in which we grew up,...

Oct 21, 2016

Holistic Review in Graduate Admissions: What We Need to Know

The pathway to becoming a scientist leads through graduate school, and graduate admissions committees are the gatekeepers. How do they...

Jul 22, 2016

Leaders and entrepreneurs gather to tackle urban challenges at CEOs for Cities National Meeting

As a university leader, how can you be sure that students are getting the skills they need to keep up with the rapidly-changing job...

Apr 19, 2016

Collaborating for Change Launched: Watch it Here

Goldie Blumenstyk, senior writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education, moderated presentations from three public urban universities. ...

Dec 14, 2015

Educators Are Pitch Perfect in $165,000 Advising Innovation Competition

L-R: Peter Meiksins, Isis Artze-Vega, Melissa Welker, Sona Andrews, Jacqueline Smith, Alan Houston. Photo Courtesy of APLU. Maybe you...

Nov 12, 2015

Pitch Competition to Award $160,000 to Fund Student Success Innovations

Photo Credit: University of New Mexico Campus leaders are used to seeking funds for new ideas. But venturing into a shark tank like...

Oct 6, 2015

Global Macrotrends Shaping Higher Education: The Economist Higher Education Forum

Change in higher education is the new normal. While we have spent a lot of time on this blog discussion innovations within the academy,...

Aug 6, 2015

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...