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    Celebrating Pride Month
    Watch this important dialogue from public higher education leaders as they explore LGBTQ+ issues on campuses.
    A diverse panel of LGBTQ+ public university leaders reflected on their own journeys in higher education, described challenges they've faced and explored the role of allies in affirming their identity. The conversation also explored the role of inclusive programming, messaging, and visibility on campus and how that impacts the experience of LGTBTQ+ students, faculty and staff.
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    APLU Joins Large Coalition Calling on Congress to Double the Maximum Pell Award
    Nearly 1,200 Organizations, Including Almost 900 Colleges and Universities Urge Congress to #DoublePell
    “A lack of investment in the Pell program has diminished the buying power of Pell Grants, which allow millions of students to attend college each year. Doubling the maximum award wouldn’t just help increase college access, completion, and equity,” said APLU President Peter McPherson.
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    APLU Special Events
    Celebrating our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness
    APLU regularly brings the public university community and others together to celebrate the diversity of cultures, heritages and identities of its leaders, faculty, and students. These forums provide an opportunity to listen and learn from different backgrounds and experiences, explore challenges, and look ahead for ways to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive public higher education community and society overall.
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    Supporting Transfer Students & Ensuring Their Success
    APLU and its Members have Myriad Initiatives Focused on Strengthening Pathways for Transfer Students
    Public research universities are committed to ensuring students can easily and efficiently transfer between institutions. For many students, far too many credits are lost during the transfer process, slowing their progress toward a degree.
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    Public Universities at Forefront of Search for Cures & Treatments for COVID-19
    Research and community engagement efforts underway to address global health crisis
    From a search for a vaccine to antiviral treatments and low-cost ventilators, public research universities are helping to lead the way to turn the tide on COVID-19.
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  • George Mason University ADVANCE Program
    Degree Completion & Student Success
    Supporting Transfer Students & Ensuring Their Success
    APLU 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.
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    Agriculture, Human Sciences & Natural Resources
    Support Capital Infrastructure Investments at Colleges and Schools of Agriculture
    The 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
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    Urban Initiatives
    Addressing Food Insecurity
    With 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.
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    Research, Science & Technology
    Envisioning & Enacting an Inclusive & Diverse STEM Professoriate: A Three-Part Series 
    Funded 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.
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    Accountability & Transparency
    VSA Analytics
    Designed 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.
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    Agriculture, Human Sciences & Natural Resources
    Employability Skills in Agriculture & Natural Resources
    Understanding 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 & Engagement
    Rural Engagement for Resilient Communities
    APLU 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 Education
    Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty
    Aspire: 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 & Engagement
    Innovation & Economic Prosperity Universities Designation and Awards
    The IEP University Designation is earned by institutions demonstrating an institutional, sustainable, and substantive commitment to excellence in economic engagement.
  • Economic Development & Engagement
    Integrating Industry Certifications with Degrees
    APLU, 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 Education
    SEMINAL
    Through 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 Technology
    Personalized Learning Consortium
    The 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.
  • 2015 PDC Award Winner
    Degree Completion & Student Success
    Degree Completion Award
    The 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 & Transparency
    Student Achievement Measure
    The 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.
  • Degree Completion & Student Success
    Powered by Publics: Scaling Student Success
    Powered 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.

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Strength of APLU

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Our History
With roots extending back to 1887, APLU is North America's oldest higher education association.
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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

U.S. Capitol
Public Universities Request Additional Pandemic Relief Funding

APLU joins the higher education community in requesting $97 billion for a Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) in the next COVID-19 supplemental appropriations bill. These funds would provide critical support to students, strengthen public universities’ response to the pandemic, financially stabilize institutions, and protect jobs.

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2020 APLU Annual Report
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APLU Staff Highlights

Research from APLU’s Kate Michaels Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
Kate Michaels
Program Manager, Center for Public University Transformation (CPUT)

Research on disparities in DFW rates from Kate Michaels, Program Manager in APLU’s Center for Public University Transformation, was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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