Answering the call.

AASCU and our members play a vital role in reimagining a postsecondary education system centered on ensuring equitable value and reimagining our postsecondary system as an instrument to create a stronger and more just society together.  

AASCU presidents answered the call to action issued by former AASCU Board Chair and President of the Arkansas State University System Chuck Welch to engage in a coordinated and organized effort to further the work of the 2021 Postsecondary Value Commission (PVC) report that proposed a new approach for measuring the value of education after high school. AASCU President Mildred García co-chaired the commission. 

Following the call, AASCU formed the Presidential Postsecondary Value Commission Task Force. The task force is focused on the five key areas the PVC Commission outlined:  

• Equalize access to increase postsecondary value  
• Remove affordability as an impediment to postsecondary value 
• Eliminate completion gaps and strengthen post-college outcomes to ensure postsecondary value 
• Improve data to expose and address inequitable postsecondary value 
• Promote social justice by providing equitable postsecondary value 

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The Sustainable Development Committee was established by the AASCU Board of Directors in July 2014. It is responsible for exploring educational and operational practices that raise awareness about sustainability and sustainable development, and for promoting implementation choices for the Association and its member campuses. 

The Committee is guided by three core commitments: 

• Economic activity is understood to serve the common good, is self-renewing, and builds local assets and self-reliance. 
• Education communicates that people are part of nature, that nature has limits, and that communities are responsible for protecting and building natural assets. 
• Citizenship is seen as an opportunity for equitable distribution of resources and full participation in all activities, benefits, and decision-making of a society. 

The Committee on Teacher Education advises AASCU on programs, projects, and federal and state public policy initiatives needed to improve teacher education, and the committee advises member presidents on ways to strengthen campus programs and enhance their credibility with policymakers and the public. 

The Committee, which includes representatives of the Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities (TECSCU), is responsible for screening applications for the annual Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Teacher Education Award.

The Committee on Student Success is charged with: 

• Identifying programs and services that can assist member campuses in achieving greater levels of student success; 
• Providing input and guidance as on AASCU student success strategy, including its grant funded initiatives such as the Student Success Equity Intensive. 

The Committee on Research is charged with the following:  

• Providing guidance on AASCU’s research priorities to serve the sector of regional public universities.  
• Informing AASCU’s advocacy for federal funding for agencies and programs that support university research.  
• Providing input on how AASCU can support and promote the research mission of its members.   

The committee is charged with:    

• Identifying programs, services and strategies that can assist them in the process of comprehensive internationalization. 
• Providing essential input and guidance on its activities, programs, services, and convenings related to international education and global initiatives.