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Seven public urban universities have banded together to form a new collaboration aimed at helping more low-income, underrepresented students earn degrees. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities are leading the creation of the new group, which is dubbed Collaborating for Change.
“Collaborating for Change isn’t just about outlining steps public urban universities can take to improve student success, it’s about helping them actually implement those changes so we can begin to see the progress and improvement that is needed,” APLU President Peter McPherson said in a written statement.
The work will include strategies designed to admit, retain, educate and graduate at-risk students, the groups said, while reducing costs and re-examining campus business models.
The new collaboration in some ways resembles the University Innovation Alliance, a completion-oriented joint project that 11 research universities began in 2014. The alliance earlier this month announced gains in completion rates of low-income students. Georgia State University is participating in both groups.
