Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) 2021 Annual Report 1 Year in Highlights
Annual Report August 2021 BY THE NUMBERS located across . The Coalition of Urban 39 25 Serving Universities States Universities Enrolling a total of (USU) is a president-led network of 39 1,110,622 public urban research Students universities, located across 25 states, working to drive 44% 54% 19% impact at their institutions Pell Recipients Students of Color Adult Learners and the communities they *Asian, Black, Hispanic/Lantinx, and 2 + (>25) serve. Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) 2021 Annual Report 1 Year In Highlights USU has raised $14,175,705 in multi-year grant funding from seven funding agencies supporting seven current initiatives. • Funders: American Association of Community Colleges (through the support of Ascendium/ECMC), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Executive Department of Education, Raikes Foundation, Kresge Foundation, and Michael and Summary Susan Dell Foundation • Initiatives:21st Century Workforce, Advancing Racial Justice and Equity, Collaborative Opportunity Grant, Completion Grants, Equity Transfer Initiative, Frontier Set, Despite the challenges of the Partnerships for Adult Learner Success, and Student Experience Project COVID-19 pandemic, The Coalition • Reach: We have worked with more than 29 institutions (74% of our current of Urban Serving Universities (USU) membership) on our six grant-funded initiatives over the last year. has experienced an impactful Drawing on the experience of students, faculty, and public university administrators at five public urban universities during the pandemic, USU released the Food Insecurity at Urban Universities: year. Our projects continued, we Perspectives During the Pandemic examining the magnitude of the pandemic’s impact on food organized consistent presidents/ insecurity on college students and outlining steps institutions can take to better address food insecurity.
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