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Low Income Graduates

Portland, Ore. – September 25, 2017 – College completion data released today by the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) shows that the number of low-income graduates has increased by 24.7 percent among participating universities over the past three years, marking significant progress toward the Alliance’s goal of graduating an additional 68,000 undergraduates by 2025.

Fourth Scale Project

PORTLAND, Ore. – August 16, 2017 – The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) today announced a new scale initiative designed to ensure that students who face financial challenges at the end of their studies aren’t prevented from graduating. The new initiative will provide students at its 11 partner universities with completion grants to alleviate financial pressure in their last semesters.

UIA Institutions Tops Retention

When it comes to the classroom, we don’t want just one winner, which is why in the past we've used the Final Four as an analogy for the kind of thinking higher education should avoid.

We argued that while rounds of elimination may be exciting when it comes to sports, it’s misplaced in higher education where an unrealistic “beat the odds” mentality has traditionally held too much sway and is particularly out of place with respect to low income and first generation students.

Student Success Researcher

Passionate about student success? Great news! Oregon State University is hiring for a brand new Success Research and Data Coordinator position. This is a full-time, twelve month, fixed term professional faculty position that's part of the Division of Undergraduate Studies (DUS).

The DUS works to improve undergraduate eduacation at Oregon State with a particular emphasis on increasing & equalizing student success, retention, and graduation rates for all students. This role will take over the MAAPS data analyst role and work on other leading edge data projects.

New America

With the college degree ever more critical to economic mobility — both at the individual and national level — large public research universities have been stepping up to help America regain its edge. Universities are expanding access to high-quality education, increasing completion rates among first generation and low income students, and adopting new methods for preparing a new generation of students for a rapidly evolving economy.

UIA Career Opportunities

Great news! There's a new UIA fellow position opening at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. The Office of the President at UCF is seeking an early-career professional to support its Alliance-related student success projects.

We're Hiring

Do you create detailed project plans for your vacations? Are you more schedule driven than most cruise directors? Do you love checklists as much as meaningful, important work? Well, great news: the University Innovation Alliance is seeking an Operations Manager.

Job Description:

The Operations Manager will administer and control business operations functions in pursuit of the UIA’s strategic goals. These functions include internal processes and procedures, project management, budgeting, strategic planning, and other functions as assigned.

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