Building Bridges: Educating, Leading, Understanding

Select Proceedings from AASCU 2024 Summer Meeting of Academic and Student Affairs Professionals

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What's Inside

AASCU’s Summer Meeting for Academic and Student Affairs Leaders convenes provosts, vice presidents for student affairs, and their teams for timely and relevant conversations about the challenges facing regional public universities, with a focus on helping students succeed. The work represented in this special issue highlights some of the creative solutions that regional public universities are pursuing in the face of enrollment and revenue declines in order to maintain the highest quality experience for students while continuing to serve their regions. The hallmarks of the regional public university are represented here: a commitment to serving every student through data-informed practices and a commitment to building connections with external partners to meet the needs of the regions they serve.

Dr. Terry Brown, Guest Editor
Vice President of Academic Innovation and Transformation, AASCU

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Bridging Academia and Industry

Bridging Academia and Industry: Enhancing Workforce Readiness through Experiential Learning Sharon Obasi (University of Nebraska at Kearney) and Beth Hinga ...
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Exploring Student Success at Fresno State

Exploring Student Success at Fresno State – What is working? What did not work? And, What is a Work in ...
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Overcoming Challenges to Student Belonging at Majority-Minority Hispanic Serving Institution

Overcoming Challenges to Student Belonging at a Majority-Minority Hispanic Serving Institution: A Competing Demands Framework Christopher Donoghue (Montclair State University), ...
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Developing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on a Regional Campus

Shawn Boyne (University of Minnesota, Crookston) and Rosemary Erickson Johnsen (University of Minnesota, Crookston) The University of Minnesota Crookston (UMN ...
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Multipronged Practices to Diversify Faculty Ranks and the Academic Leadership Pipeline

Kenneth Sumner (Manhattan University), Emily J. Isaacs (Montclair State University), and Junius Gonzales (Montclair State University) This presentation aims to ...
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The Science & Art of Provostship During Faculty Retrenchment

Joshua Powers (William Paterson University of New Jersey) This case study explores the challenges faced by William Paterson University during ...

Using Data to Transform Student Success

This case study examines SUNY Oswego’s participation in the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' Student Success Equity Intensive ...