AASCU member campuses are taking charge for a better tomorrow. Read and share what your colleagues around the country are doing to make a difference. Click the button to tell your own compelling story.
These Promising Practices focus on five key areas outlined by the Postsecondary Value Commission:
Check out our Presidential PVC Task Force Talking Points to help guide engaging conversations about your institution’s Promising Practices.
Arkansas State University System
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.
Read MoreCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
This university’s program creates a culture of belonging and acceptance that welcomes the growing number of returning students with some college, no degree who want to complete their coursework and earn their degrees.
Read MoreCalifornia State University, Stanislaus
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.
Read MoreCalifornia State University, Stanislaus
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.
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Central Connecticut State University
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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Colorado State University – Pueblo
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.
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Colorado State University – Pueblo
To make more college affordable and the workforce more diverse, this university awarded its work-study funds to students from underserved communities so they could participate in career placements tied to their majors and graduate.
Read MoreColorado State University – Pueblo
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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East Tennessee State University
A public/private partnership led to the creation of a groundbreaking program in which students can earn real-life work experience and bachelor’s degrees to meet immediate labor shortages in information technology and advanced cybersecurity fields.
Read MoreMiddle Georgia State University
A dual-enrollment program spearheaded by this university will educate high school students for the STEM jobs of the future at a nearby U.S. Air Force base.
Read MoreMinnesota State University, Mankato
When it comes to equalizing access to and affordability of postsecondary education, success hinges on developing a broad base committed to the cause
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