Advancing Postsecondary Value

What lessons or promising practices from RPUs can be adapted to enhance postsecondary value?

How can institutional, state, or federal policymakers help more public colleges and universities scale these practices?

To address these questions, AASCU pursued two core objectives. The first objective was to conduct a comprehensive analysis of promising practices collected from 2022 to 2025 through online submissions and interviews with senior campus executives. The second objective was to engage presidents and chancellors through a survey and structured interviews, to identify the policies that help scale promising practices while providing insights for policymakers who wish to be supportive of value-centered efforts. This project offered a comprehensive view of the innovations driving value at regional public universities and the policy conditions that enable or limit their reach, resulting in six main findings.

The full report will be available soon.