Urban Universities Portfolio Project

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Urban Universities Portfolio Project

• What Is an Urban University?
• Common Components of UUPP Campus Missions

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Component 1 (all)

• Provide a high-quality education that is shaped
  by and relevant to the urban setting

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Component 1 Questions

• How are high quality teaching and learning
  defined, and how will the portfolios identify
  them?
• What practices or outcomes are especially
  appropriate or unique to urban universities?
• How do campuses draw on the urban setting to
  enhance educational outcomes?
• What barriers are there to high-quality teaching
  and learning?

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Component 2 (most)

• Promote diversity and access

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Component 2 Questions

• What admission policies support access to success
  for a diverse population?
• What hiring policies do, and what are their
  results?
• What outreach activities can the portfolios
  document?
• How does the urban setting demonstrably enhance
  the diversity mission?

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More Component 2 Questions

• How does a commitment to diversity affect the
  educational program--e.g., through
• interdisciplinarity?
• learning that addresses the issues and problems
  of contemporary life?
• teaching students to function in a diverse
  society?

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Component 3 (most)

• Provide opportunities for lifelong learning

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Component 3 Questions

• What alternative delivery modes facilitate access
  for working adults? What do we know about their
  effect on student access and success?
• What other provisions are made to accommodate the
  schedules of working adults?
• What other support is available for adult
  students?

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Component 4 (all)

• Meet the needs of the urban community

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Component 4 Questions

• How do the UUPP campuses prepare graduates for
  citizenship in an urban community? What is the
  evidence of their effectiveness in doing so?
• How does faculty scholarship and service improve
  urban life?
• What graduate and professional programs serve the
  needs of the community?

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Gaps

• Cost and price
• Other?