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APLU Special EventsCelebrating our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and InclusivenessAPLU 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.Learn More -
APLU Joins Large Coalition Calling on Congress to Double the Maximum Pell AwardNearly 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.Learn More -
Supporting Transfer Students & Ensuring Their SuccessAPLU and its Members have Myriad Initiatives Focused on Strengthening Pathways for Transfer StudentsPublic 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.Learn More -
Addressing Food Insecurity at Urban Universitiesan APLU & USU Report Examines the Pandemic’s Impact on Food Insecurity on College StudentsFunded by the Kresge Foundation, the report provides nine action steps to address the challenges of food insecurity on campus.Learn More -
Public Universities at Forefront of Search for Cures & Treatments for COVID-19Research and community engagement efforts underway to address global health crisisFrom 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.Learn More
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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. -
Degree Completion & Student SuccessAPLU is creating a new national Center for Public University Transformation (CPUT) to grow, innovate, and sustain effective solutions that are scalable across the diverse set of institutions comprising the public university sector.
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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
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.
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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