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Tomás D. Morales During his State of the Union address, President Obama identified an increase in graduation rates by the year 2020 as a national goal. He spoke of “reform that raises student achievement [and] inspires students to excel in math and science. The Lumina Foundation’s “Big Goal" is to increase the nation’s college degree and credentials to 60% by the year 2025. The foundation highlights its first step as “Preparation, an intermediate outcome being: “States and institutions create and implement transparent higher education readiness standards aligned across K-12. In an American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU) letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and Labor, AASCU President Muriel Howard writes, “Meaningful partnerships between higher education and local and state education agencies can create conditions for strengthening both school districts and schools of education. Increasing the number of Americans who hold college degrees will require innovative cooperative alliances between K-12 and higher education.
Register today for the 2010 CUMU Conference “Aligning the Metropolitan University with Business, Government and the Nonprofit Sectors?
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Save the Date: Monday, September 27th from 8:30-2:00 p.m. The first CUMU facilitated dialogue will be for the northeast region and will focus on the Challenges and Opportunities associated with University-School partnerships. Discussion Topics will include:
Dr. Ira Harkavy will serve as our facilitator! Dr. Harkavy, founding Director and Associate Vice President for the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, is the foremost national leader working to involve colleges and universities in democratic partnerships with local public schools and their communities. Presidents will be receiving a formal invitation in the coming weeks and the meeting will also be open to senior administrators involved in school-university partnerships. If you would like more information please contact CUMU Headquarters at cumu@towson.edu.
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The ACE announcesFellows 2010-2011 class. [read more] Download the latest AASCU report “Maintenance of Effort: An Evolving Federal-State Policy Approach to Ensuring College Affordability Rising to the Challenge? SAVE THE DATE for the USU 5th Annual Summer Meeting July 19-20, 2010 in Washington, DC [read more] Register Now for the UEDA 2010 Summit from November 7-9 in Reno, Nevada. [read more] |
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Preparation, Persistence and Graduation: The Importance of Public School-University Partnerships 
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