Student Success
State colleges and universities relentlessly pursue improved outcomes for all students. AASCU turns these institutions’ successes and struggles into solutions that make better possible—for each and every student.
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Where We’re Focused
Our members set the agenda. Together, we uncover what works, tackle what doesn’t, and create solutions tailored to the students we educate and the unique needs of regional public universities.
Ways to Get Involved
Programs
Take action alongside committed peers to improve student outcomes.
Research & Events
Find timely insights from the AASCU community.
Committees & Awards
Share insights and celebrate your peers’ contributions.
Policy & Advocacy
Advance policy priorities critical to student success.
Current Programs
The structure, tools, and community AASCU members need to advance timely interventions tailored to their students.
A multi-year cohort of institutions striving to accelerate equitable student success.
Learn tactical ways to lead institutional transformation for student success.
Adapt and evolve to meet the unique needs of current and future students.
IMPACT
Innovative Institutions
$9.8M
in direct grant support for 77 AASCU member campuses to support student success
51
institutions (plus one system) serving 600k+ students accelerating student success through Student Success Equity Intensive
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## leaders prepared to lead transformational change through the Student Success Institute
Transformed Futures
$2,300 less
The average tuition and fees at regional public universities is ~$2,300 less than that of other public four-year institutions.
66%
of public, four-year bachelor’s degrees are awarded by regional public universities.
59%
59% of participating SSEI institutions* have median student earnings that allow them to move into the upper-middle income quintile compared to only ##% nationally.
*data from first two SSEI cohorts (33 institutions)
Sam Houston State University Center For Community Engagement Receives National Recognition
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Committees & Awards
Committee on Student Success
A passionate, diverse team of leaders shaping the direction of AASCU’s student success activities.
Excellence and Innovation Awards
Awards honoring institutions that demonstrate exceptional commitment to preparing all students for fulfilling futures.
Policy Agenda
AASCU’s commitment to student success extends to the policy arena, where we champion the federal and state policies that make student success possible—supporting both our members and the students they serve.
Tuition-Free College
- Advocate for increased investment in public higher education and promote policies that align federal and state practices with greater affordability and improved access.
- Encourage and promote AASCU’s proposed federal matching program and other strategies for leveraging federal resources to incentivize state public higher education funding, including a proposed stewardship grants program.
- Support proposals that promote federal-state affordability partnerships by providing federal incentives for increased state funding of operating costs at public colleges and universities.
- Ensure that any tuition-free or tuition-reduction proposals include any public institution’s first two years of college.
Institutional Autonomy of Public Institutions
- Preserve and protect academic freedom and institutional autonomy at public institutions.
- Oppose federal efforts to politically micromanage academic decisions regarding admissions criteria, faculty, curriculum, instruction, and transfer of academic credit at public institutions.
- Oppose outside influence within research and the academic peer-review process.
- Oppose arbitrary restrictions on international exchange and collaborative research activities of public institutions.
- Support the collection of targeted, actionable data for accountability and program management purposes in compliance with fair information practices and without imposing unreasonable burdens on participating institutions.
- Encourage policymakers to recognize issues of institutional/system governance, equity, and academic quality in all policies associated with the states’ role in higher education financing.
Strengthen Educator Preparation
- Continue to work with Congress and the administration to chart a practicable federal policy that seeks to strengthen the educator preparation pipeline and diversify the teacher corps.
- Urge policymakers to align educator preparation requirements with the 2015 reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
- Support the Teacher/Educator Quality Partnership Program.
- Encourage state efforts to develop appropriate licensure standards based on valid, reliable, and objective data and align assessment of educator preparation programs with those standards.
- Ensure states evaluate all educator preparation venues using the same standards.
- Support improved teacher salaries to enable states to recruit and retain qualified teachers.
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