The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is an organization of state-supported colleges and universities that offer degree programs leading to bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees. AASCU grew out of the Association of Teacher Education Institutions that had been organized in 1951 to serve public comprehensive institutions most of them having begun as single purpose institutions, most of them normal schools. Image File history File links Aascu. ... Image File history File links Aascu. ... An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ...
To promote appreciation and support for public higher education and the distinctive contributions of our member colleges and universities;
To analyze public policy, and to advocate for member institutions and the students they serve;
To provide policy leadership and program support to strengthen academic quality, promote access and inclusion, and facilitate educational innovation; and
To create professional development opportunities for institutional leaders, especially presidents, chancellors and their spouses.
Comparison with Association of American Universities
Unlike the AASCU, the Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization leading research universities primarily devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty U.S. universities (both public and private), and two universities in Canada. AAU was founded in 1900 by a group of fourteen Ph.D.-granting universities in the U.S. to strengthen and standardize U.S. doctoral programs. Today, the primary purpose of the AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies promoting strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. A few institutions are members of both the AAU and the AASCU. The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... Research is often described as an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising facts. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... quagmire:For alternate meanings see state university (disambiguation). ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Membership
There are over 430 member institutions: List of AASCU Member Institutions
External link
American Association of State Colleges and Universities website
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