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CONGRESSIONAL URBAN CAUCUS BRIEFING--Anchor Institutions as Partners in Building Successful Communities and Local Economies
June 9, 2009
Washington D.C.
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Improving the Urban Education Pipeline
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CUMU PRESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVES |
 Needed: Transfer-of-Credit Paradigm Shift
Joel E. Anderson
Chancellor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University faculty and administrators are frequently least enthusiastic about tackling what is arguably the biggest barrier to timely graduation by very large numbers of students—the transfer of credits from one campus to another. At UALR, 75 percent of students to whom we award diplomas bring credits from at least one, and sometimes several, other institutions. Transfer students are not an anomaly but the norm at urban/metropolitan universities.
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2009 CUMU CONFERENCE - LOOK WHO IS COMING..... |
October 11 – 13 
Hosted by Widener University
Building Community Resiliency: The Role of University Leadership.
Registration Now Open!
- The Honorable Michael Nutter, mayor of Philadelphia - will welcome us to the City of Brotherly Love at the opening reception. Mayor Nutter's reform efforts coupled with his background as a community organizer make him the perfect leader to open a conference dedicated to Building Community Resiliency.
- The founder and director of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, Jane Golden, will give the keynote address Monday night at the reception in the Franklin Institute. We borrowed the artwork for our logo, above, from Jane Golden's Mural Arts Program, with permission of course.
 Westfield State College
Westfield State College, distinguished since its founding in 1838, began as the first, public, coeducational teachers college in the nation, founded upon the concept of education as opportunity. Students benefit from Westfield State's emphasis on service and experiential learning. Westfield State College is a tremendous resource for the region: cultivating partnerships and contributing to cultural, environmental, and economic vitality.
President Evan Dobelle
CUMU Appoints new Executive Committee Members
The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. John Christensen as Chair of the CUMU Program and Policy Committee and Dr. Wim Wiewel as Member-at-Large. Dr. Christensen will be replacing Dr. Nancy Zimpher in this role as she transitions into her new role as Chancellor of The State University of New York. Dr. Wiewel will be replacing Dr. Christensen in his previous role on the Executive Committee.
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President Obama Signs Serve America Act
On April 21, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act at an elementary school in Washington DC. The Serve America Act reauthorizes and expands national service programs administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency created in 1993. The Corporation engages four million Americans in result-driven service each year, including 75,000 AmeriCorps members, 492,000 Senior Corps volunteers, 1.1 million Learn and Serve America students, and 2.2 million additional community volunteers mobilized and managed through the agency’s programs.
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Call to Action: Smart Infrastructure to Create One Million Jobs
This call to action suggests a new national education investment act for the construction of new facilities on our campuses. Written by a colleague of Adam Gross, who is involved with colleges and university facilities, this call to action is necessary now, more than ever. We hope that you will pass this report on to your senators and congress people.
Letter from CUMU President Steve Diner to CUMU Presidents
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 NERCHE host AAC&U Senior Scholar Dr. Eugene Rice to present “Engagement and the Academic Careers: A New Generation of Scholars and Scholarship [read more and see video]
 The Engagement Academy for University Leaders announces 2009 Class. Academy takes place June 22-26 2009 [read more]
 AASCU’s Millennium Leadership Initiative is June 6-9 [read more]
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