Urban University Blog

Mar 18, 2015

Connecting Students to Employers: Top Dog Talks

Another innovative program unearthed by the Innovation Pitch Challenge funded with a grant from Lumina Foundation, is Fresno State’s Top...

Mar 11, 2015

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...

Mar 3, 2015

Advancing Equity in STEM through Engagement

Photo Credit: Georgia State University How do we best advance equity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)? While we’ve...

Feb 20, 2015

What Does it Mean to Anchor a Community?

Photo Credit: University of Illinois at Chicago Anchor institutions enhance the economic, social and cultural well-being of their home...

Feb 9, 2015

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...

Jan 26, 2015

Launch Day: Welcome to Urban University, The Blog of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities

Photo Credit: University of Illinois at Chicago Welcome to the new blog of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU). We invite...