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NEW! AASCU President Talks About Members Public Trust and Public Commitments at inauguration of St. Cloud president.
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Public Purpose: the Magazine of AASCU
New articles from the September/October Issue.

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Just launched: The Voluntary System of Accountability project's College Portrait website. Read news release


Letter to presidential candidates by the leadership of the six presidential associations suggests ways a new administration can work with higher education. Read letter (pdf)

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AASCU Trip to China - Beijing

November 22 - 25
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December 11-13
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NEW! Policy Matters: Tapping State College Research and Development Capacity in Support of State Economic Development
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2008 Presidential Election
2008 Presidential IconTrack and compare the higher education platforms, voting records, and news stories of U.S. Presidential candidates. Read more


Latest in the Perspectives Series
Provides an overview of veterans’ education issues on the national, state, and institutional level as well as highlights examples of innovative campus-based and organizational efforts to assist veterans and their families in utilizing GI Bill benefits and making the transition from combat to campus.
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Higher Education Opportunity Act
President Bush has signed into law the Higher Education Opportunity Act- the first comprehensive bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act since 1998. Congress passed the legislation on July 31, 2008. Read more


NEW!Founding Celebrations Welcome to a new feature on aascu.org that highlights AASCU member institutions that are celebrating their founding. AASCU’s diverse membership ranges from institutions founded less than 10 years ago to those whose founding dates back more than 200 years. Founding Celebrations will highlight those members marking milestone anniversaries in 2008-2009 with a new college or university featured every two weeks. Read more


We are Public
AASCU’s 430 public college and university members are found throughout the United States, and in Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. We range in size from 1,000 students to 44,000. We are found in the inner city, in suburbs, towns and cities, and in remote rural America.

We include campuses with extensive offerings in law, medicine and doctoral education—as well as campuses offering associate degrees to complement baccalaureate studies. We are both residential and commuter, and with on-line degrees as well.

Common to virtually every member institution are three qualities that define its work and characterize our common commitments: We are institutions of access and opportunity. We are student-centered institutions. We are “stewards of place.”
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