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Advancing HBCU Student Success in ScienceA Black History Month CelebrationAPLU is thrilled to celebrate Black History Month with a panel of experts from HBCUs and the White House’s Office of Science, Technology and Policy exploring the pivotal role of HBCUs in advancing student success and tackling challenges through pathbreaking research. The panel will also explore how to support HBCUs as they work to increase research capacity, expand partnerships with other institutions, and grow African American science talent.Register TodayFebruary 22, 1:30 - 3:30pm ET | Virtual -
2021 APLU Annual ReportThe past year has been filled with both exceptional challenges as well as unique opportunities.Through our robust government affairs and advocacy work, programmatic activities, and an unprecedented number of virtual convenings, APLU worked with our members to drive equitable student success; foster research and innovation to meet societal needs, and deepen community, economic, and international engagement to benefit all.Download the Annual Report -
Public Impact ResearchNew Activation Guide Provides Best Practices, Fresh Ideas, and Recommendations for Using PIR#PublicImpactResearch aims to elevate and communicate the impact public university research has on everyday life. Its goal is to emphasize the value of collaborative research with communities.Learn More -
Building a Future Workforce for All LearnersHow Public and Land-grant Universities and Urban Serving Universities Drive Innovative SolutionsAPLU report details how public universities have a central role in helping workers upskill amidst record-breaking workforce transition.Read the Report -
#DoublePellAPLU Joins Double Pell Alliance in National Campaign to Double the Maximum Pell GrantThe campaign features a new website, doublepell.org, that provides students and families with tools to communicate with Congress in support of doubling Pell, engage on social media, and share personal stories about how the Pell Grant has helped them.Learn More
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January 19, 2022How Reducing Curricular Complexity Can Help Boost Graduation Rates
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Degree Completion & Student SuccessPowered by Publics is convening nearly 125 change-ready institutions within 16 “transformation clusters” focused on solving different pieces of the student success puzzle. Participating institutions are working collaboratively to increase college access, eliminate the achievement gap, and award hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025. -
Degree Completion & Student SuccessAPLU and its member universities are ensuring transfer student success. Public research universities are innovating to strengthen pathways for students to easily and efficiently transfer between institutions. -
Agriculture, Human Sciences & Natural ResourcesThe United States (U.S.) risks losing the ability to compete internationally if we ask our researchers and educators to conduct and deliver 21st century results in facilities from the 1950s and 1960s -
Urban InitiativesWith funding from the Kresge Foundation, APLU & USU examined the magnitude of the pandemic’s impact on food insecurity on college students and outlining steps better address food insecurity. -
Research, Science & TechnologyFunded by NSF, Envisioning & Enacting an Inclusive & Diverse STEM Professoriate is a series of collaborative think tanks for APLU leaders, STEM faculty, social science and diversity scholars, funders and other non-profits. Each think tank tackles a systemic gatekeeping function in the careers of STEM faculty that may be preventing institutions and the nation from realizing their goal of a more diverse and inclusive STEM faculty. -
Accountability & TransparencyDesigned by institutions for institutions, VSA Analytics provides a robust, interactive, and user-friendly platform to compare and analyze key performance metrics across colleges and universities. -
Agriculture, Human Sciences & Natural ResourcesUnderstanding and meeting the needs of employers and the skills new graduates will take with them into the workplace is vital when developing curricula and degree programs. -
Economic Development & EngagementAPLU supports its public research university members contributing to the economic welfare, well-being, and quality of life of communities in rural communities across the nation. -
STEM EducationAspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty is an NSF-backed initiative to expand the diversity of STEM faculty by increasing the number and percentage of traditionally underrepresented groups, including women, members of minority racial and ethnic groups, persons with disabilities, and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds. -
Economic Development & EngagementThe IEP University Designation is earned by institutions demonstrating an institutional, sustainable, and substantive commitment to excellence in economic engagement. -
Economic Development & EngagementAPLU, USU, Workcred, and UPCEA explore how universities and certification bodies can improve student success and workforce outcomes by reducing the time and cost gaps between a 4-year degree and an industry certification. -
STEM EducationThrough SEMINAL: Student Engagement through an Institutional Network for Active Learning, faculty will collaborate with APLU to better understand both how to sustain success in implementing active learning in undergraduate mathematics classes and how to facilitate similar success at other institutions. -
Learning TechnologyThe PLC serves as a coordinating body to foster cooperation and collaboration that will advance the use of information technology to improve learning, retention, and graduation. PLC membership positions universities to better capture the economies of scale inherent in information technology. -
Degree Completion & Student SuccessThe Degree Completion Award recognize universities that have made significant progress in successfully retaining and graduating students while promoting those schools as models for other institutions. -
Accountability & TransparencyThe Student Achievement Measure (SAM) provides a comprehensive picture of student progress on their path to earning a college degree or certificate. As compared to the limitations of typical graduation rate measures, SAM reports more outcomes for more students.
Members in the Spotlight
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Life in the Time of Coronavirus
At Colorado State University, the campus community has been on the frontlines, continuing the University’s land-grant mission of teaching, research, extension, public service and engagement in new and innovative ways to face the challenges head-on.
UNC Charlotte Expands National Center For Youth with Disabilities
Through the largest grant in the University’s history, a pair of researchers from the UNC Charlotte Cato College of Education are expanding their national effort to improve employment, education and community integration for students and youth with disabilities.
Incubating the Future of Health Sciences
Altitude Lab announced its first resident companies and opened applications for its breakthrough collaborative facility and program. Founded by Recursion and the University of Utah’s Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization (TVC), the incubator fills the critical role of finding, supporting, incubating and accelerating early-stage life science and health care companies in Utah. Altitude Lab is the first of its kind—a blended incubator/accelerator program focused on developing diverse and inclusive businesses in the health care sector.
Strength of APLU
Our History
With roots extending back to 1887, APLU is North America's oldest higher education association.
Video Spotlight: Powered by Publics (PxP)
APLU launches the Powered by Publics initiative. This effort is convening 130 public universities and systems to collectively develop and scale innovative solutions to increase degree completion and close the achievement gap nationwide.
Strengthening & Advancing Public Universities Collectively.
Focused on increasing degree completion and academic success, advancing scientific research, and expanding engagement, APLU undertakes a wide array of projects and initiatives along with its members while providing a forum for public higher education leaders to work collaboratively to better meet the challenges and opportunities facing public universities.
Legislative Highlight
The Pell Grant is a proven program that has been the foundation of federal student aid for decades, opening the doors of college and opportunity to low- and moderate-income students. APLU joins the higher education community in requesting doubling the maximum annual Pell Grant award to help more students earn a degree, get a good-paying job, and ensure them greater economic mobility and a brighter future.
APLU Staff Highlights
APLU’s Julia Michaels Presents at NASH Student Success Conference
Julia Michaels
Executive Director, Center for Public University Transformation (CPUT) & Associate Vice President, APLU
Julia Michaels, Executive Director of APLU’s Center for Public University Transformation, presented on student success efforts at the National Association of System Heads Big ReThink Conference on December 8.
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