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The Center for Urban Education (CUE) is a research and action center whose mission is to conduct research that will result in the creation of enabling institutional environments for children, youth, and adults from socially and economically disenfranchised groups residing in urban settings.

Situated in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, CUE is uniquely positioned to explore the complex interplay between education and an urban environment similar to that found in most of the world's cities.
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Estela Mara Bensimon
Director, Center for Urban Education

Seeking Out Success: Dr. Shaun Harper from the University of Pennsylvania is undertaking the largest-ever empirical study of Black male undergraduates to create a new paradigm of how they adapt and succeed in college.

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Creating Institutional Transformation using the Equity Scorecard

USC News: Equity Scorecard Project Spells Success: The diversity assessment tool designed by the USC Rossier School’s Center for Urban Education yields positive changes at Loyola Marymount.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards CUE Research Grant

The Center for Urban Education has received an NSF research grant to conduct a study to identify practical ways of increasing Latino students’ access to and success in STEM majors including science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science.
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2007 ASHE Presidential Address

The Underestimated Significance of Practioner Knowledge in the Scholarship on Student Success by Estela Mara Bensimon.
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What's New

Colleges study minority issues

Campuses to employ statistical tool to improve recruitment and retention
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UW campuses, others look at minority students' success in new way

Black college students are almost three times as likely as white students to have off-campus jobs that interfere with their schooling, according to a new study
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CUE has Launched the California Benchmarking Project

CUE has launched the California Benchmarking Project to develop an evidence-based model of assessment to improve college effectiveness, and harness untapped practitioner expertise to produce equitable transfer outcomes and increase the number of community college students, particularly African-Americans and Latinos, who successfully complete their first transfer-level course after beginning college in “basic skills” level courses.

Teams from the three lead colleges – Long Beach City College, Los Angeles Southwest College and Rio Hondo College – have each convened evidence teams of faculty, administrators, and counselors who will conduct research on their own campuses and provide leadership in the development of practitioner-driven assessment
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