Promising Practices

Read how your fellow AASCU member institutions are amplifying postsecondary value by fostering greater accessibility and affordability, closing completion gaps, and creating a more equitable society.

How is your institution impacting students from diverse backgrounds?

Arkansas State University System

Arkansas State University System

Using Online Programming to Increase Transfers to Universities

This university system created a vigorous online program that mainly serves nontraditional and underrepresented students, particularly individuals who are seeking to transfer to a four-year institution and who live and work hours away from a university.

Mural at CSU Stanislaus

California State University, Stanislaus

Creating a Revolving Door of Opportunity

Through Project Rebound, Stanislaus State is helping to demonstrate how higher education can transform the lives of formerly incarcerated individuals so they can become productive and positive members of the community.

Graduation at CSU Stanislaus

California State University, Stanislaus

Increasing Graduation Rates by Meeting Students’ Basic Needs

Mounting evidence of how food, housing, and financial insecurities are impacting student graduation rates spurred this university into action. It created a program that responds to students’ basic needs, resulting in more students completing their degree journeys.

Central Connecticut State University

Success Central: Supporting Underrepresented Students Through Peer Coaching

To combat the decline in retention and graduation rates among underrepresented student groups in postsecondary education, this university offers an innovative peer-coaching initiative in which mentors address mentees’ unique challenges and support their academic and personal accomplishments.

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Central State University

Central State University

Boosting Reenrollment With Holistic Academic Strategy

After learning that declining reenrollment was linked to rising rates of academic probation and academic suspension, this university created a program that offers a success skills course, peer mentorship, and academic support to help students achieve good standing and complete their degree journeys.

Chicago State University

Growing a Stronger Community From High School Through Career Placement

This university is investing in its surrounding community with a comprehensive program that supports and enriches underrepresented students from dual-enrollment courses in high schools to holistic programs and scholarships in college to career placement in positions with sustainable wages upon graduation.

Colorado State University – Pueblo

Creating a College-Bound Culture for Underserved High School Students

To make higher education more accessible, this university partnered with area school districts to create centers that helped high school students from communities of color as well as first-generation students negotiate the application process and increase enrollment in universities and college.

Colorado State University – Pueblo

Removing Financial Barriers for Underserved Students With Promise

To remove financial barriers to higher education, this university laid the foundation for two programs that offer free tuition to students whose families fall in the low- and moderate-income brackets and are in underserved communities.

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