Our Partners

AASCU partners intensify the impact of state colleges and universities by contributing to our mission, engaging with our members, and sharing their expertise.

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We advance collective impact through partnerships.

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) represents 350 public regional comprehensive colleges, universities, and systems. Offering more than 3 million students each year an affordable, high-quality college education—particularly students from lower-income families, first-generation college students, and/or students of color—AASCU institutions are stewards of their communities, powering economic growth and preparing graduates to be informed and engaged citizens who live by the values of a democratic society.

AASCU gratefully acknowledges the invaluable support of its diverse thought partners. The commitment, expertise, solutions, and collaboration they bring is critical to advancing AASCU’s mission. AASCU partners play a vital role in the ecosystem by supporting our members with the tools and strategies needed to advance the social, economic, and career mobility of their students, from all backgrounds, and their communities.

Sheden Alsaaty
Assistant Vice President of Advancement and Partnerships

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Become a partner.

Whether you lead a corporation, philanthropy, or a nonprofit organization, your partnership with AASCU will contribute to long-term, sustainable, and meaningful outcomes. AASCU offers a range of engagement opportunities through our Corporate Partnership Program and our Partnerships with Philanthropy.

Corporate Partnerships

Corporate partners help to advance the critical work of AASCU members by bringing valuable thought leadership on pressing and emerging issues in the ever-evolving higher education landscape; developing tools, strategies, and solutions to complex challenges; and providing financial support enabling AASCU to catalyze institutional transformation, promote equity-centered leadership development opportunities, exchange promising practices, facilitate knowledge building and transfer, and nurture a robust and dynamic community of practice.

Our commitment is to build long-term strategic partnerships with a win-win-win mindset – a win for AASCU members and the students and communities they serve, a win for our partners, and a win for AASCU in helping us continue this important work.

Partner Engagement opportunities

AASCU offers a variety of engagement opportunities to existing and prospective partners. Whether your organization is interested in building its brand awareness or in providing thought leadership to our members, we welcome your support and collaboration.

AASCU offers a variety of engagement options at AASCU convenings via visibility and brand awareness, thought leadership content curation, or supporting networking and community building opportunities.

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AASCU’s growing suite of leadership development programs offer partners the opportunity to support leaders at every stage in their career.

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Explore Civic & Global Engagement programs.

AASCU’s Student Success programs are dedicated to promoting student success through the use of evidence-based solutions and interventions. By fostering a cooperative community of learning, our programs bring together campus teams from across the country to share knowledge about programs and practices that advance student success. AASCU offers a variety of opportunities.

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Effective public policy is vital to sustaining a high-quality, affordable and accessible American public higher education system. AASCU serves as a valued resource to its members and stakeholders throughout the nation by providing both federal and state policy research, analysis and advocacy for sound public policy that advances higher education across the United States.

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AASCU Consulting works with individual campuses to manage challenges, opportunities, obstacles, and threats. Our team of experienced consultants — former presidents, chancellors, and other senior executives of colleges and universities work with campus leaders and executive teams to overcome challenges and help transform the institution.

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The Grants Resource Center (GRC), enhances the research and sponsored programs capabilities of higher education institutions. GRC provides members with access to a comprehensive suite of tools, services, and expertise to increase members success in securing competitive grants from federal and private sponsors.

Visit the GRC.

“EAB has partnered with AASCU for the past 5 years and since day one of working together, I have never experienced a more genuine and supportive partnership. We have continued to grow exponentially with the AASCU community by learning more about the real challenges and needs facing the higher education industry. The dual-learning relationship we experience with AASCU is unlike any other partnership and allows EAB to explore new relationships, strengthen existing ones, and expand support for HEI leaders.”

Dani Powell

Industry Relations & Event Strategy

EAB

Corporate Partners

Philanthropic Partnerships

AASCU is committed to building bridges with adjacent sectors to develop long-term sustainable interventions resulting in meaningful and transformative collective impact. AASCU collaborates with philanthropy to advance social and economic mobility for students of all backgrounds, grow and diversify the higher education leadership pipeline, and create and cultivate communities of diverse practitioners working to address and solve pressing and emergent challenges while, in tandem, developing strategies to coalesce and capitalize on points of optimism and opportunity.