Urban University Blog

May 26, 2020

I just Graduated; Are you hiring?

As many companies shut down and millions of employees are now without a job, recent graduates from the Class of 2020 fear for their...

May 19, 2020

Academic Advising, Career Services and Social Distancing in a Global Pandemic

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

May 8, 2020

Preparing the Class of 2020 for the New Workforce

As students prepare to walk across makeshift stages in their homes for virtual graduation ceremonies, the COVID-19 crisis has interrupted...

May 5, 2020

Universities Strategies to Support Students’ Mental Health Amid the Pandemic

The 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, 2020

Addressing College Student Food Insecurity during a Pandemic

Many colleges in the United States have launched food pantries in order to combat the growing problem of food insecurity among college...

Apr 28, 2020

Great Ideas from our USU Members – April 2020

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

Apr 24, 2020

Supporting Successful College Admissions and Transitions Amidst COVID-19

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

Apr 21, 2020

Covid 19 Issues for the University Enterprise: Crowdsourcing the List

Help us Build the Covid 19 Challenges List! Given the speed of change of the Covid 19 pandemic, university leadership, faculty, staff and...

Apr 15, 2020

Pandemic Modeling: Charting the Course of Covid 19

According to statistical modelers, all models are wrong but some are more useful than others. A pandemic model can help colleges and...

Apr 13, 2020

Campus 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, 2020

Mental Health and Supporting Student Well-being Resources during Covid 19

Well before Covid 19, mental health had already established itself as a major challenge and priority on college campuses. With Covid 19,...

Mar 23, 2020

Resources to Help Meet Students’ Basic Needs During the Covid 19 Pandemic

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...

Mar 21, 2020

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina for Navigating Covid 19: The Case of Tulane

In 2017, in the wake of Hurricanes Irma, Maria and Harvey, Scott Cowen, President Emeritus of Tulane University, spoke with USU leaders...

Mar 20, 2020

A Free Web Chatbot to Keep Students Informed on Covid 19

Managing the pandemic requires providing accurate, up-to-date information that can be communicated in real time. And the ability to ask...

Mar 16, 2020

Navigating to the Future: A University Roadmap to Deliver 21st Century Skills

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

Mar 9, 2020

Going for Impact: Lessons from Piloting Completion Grants at Nine Universities

For 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, 2018

Redefining Student Success: APLU Launches Collaborative Initiative Focused on College Completion

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

Jan 24, 2018

How State Policy Can Support the Priorities of Urban Serving Universities

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

Dec 22, 2017

University Public Safety Partnerships that Advance Student Success

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