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2026 UERU UVP Meeting

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

Spring, June 3 - 5, 2026
The Ohio State University

The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU) holds Undergraduate Vice Provost/President (UVP) Meetings twice a year at member institutions across the country. In Spring 2026, it will be held in Columbus, Ohio at The Ohio State University. 

These meetings provide UERU leaders with opportunities for in-person engagement and often feature specialized colloquia. The UVP Meetings foster collaboration and address critical challenges in undergraduate education, promoting diversity, inclusion, student success, and innovative practices. Participation is restricted to UVPs, their designees, and/or one additional senior-level colleague.

 

UERU 2026 Leadership Summit

August 2 - 4, 2026
Colorado State University

UERU 2026 Leadership Summit

August 2 - 4, 2026
Colorado State University

The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU), hosted by Colorado State University since 2013, invites senior leadership teams to participate in a Chatham House Rule-guided summit August 2-4, 2026, at Colorado State University dedicated to expert-led discussion of key strategies for achieving Boyer 2030 goals in light of emergent challenges.

 

The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU) holds Undergraduate Vice Provost/President (UVP) Meetings twice a year at member institutions across the country. In Fall 2026, it will be held in in Miami, Florida at the University of Miami. 

These meetings provide UERU leaders with opportunities for in-person engagement and often feature specialized colloquia. The UVP Meetings foster collaboration and address critical challenges in undergraduate education, promoting diversity, inclusion, student success, and innovative practices. Participation is restricted to UVPs, their designees, and/or one additional senior-level colleague.

 

SAVE THE DATE

2026 UVP Meeting

Fall, October 27- 29, 2026
University of Miami

SAVE THE DATE

2027 Annual Conference

January 20 - 22, 2027

Seattle, Washington

UERU Town Hall: Digital Technology Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 1:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall

UERU Town Hall: Digital Technology Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 1:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall

UERU is pleased to welcome Dr. David Homa of Harvard Business School for a discussion of digital technology literacy in the age of artificial intelligence. Dr. Homa serves as Head of Institute Administration and Research Services at HBS AI Institute and will lead a workshop on digital technology literacy at UERU’s Spring UVP Meeting at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Homa’s approach is to locate thinking about A.I. within the broad history of social and technological development, contextualizing A.I. in ways that make its study amenable to humanities and social science disciplines as much as to STEM and professional education. Dr. Homa earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an Ed.D. from Northeastern University.

UERU Town Hall

Course Level Assessment of Student Learning:
What Research Tells Us About the Do’s and Don'ts

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 12:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall

UERU Town Hall: 

Course Level Assessment of Student Learning:
What Research Tells Us About the Do’s and Don'ts

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 12:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall

As a follow up to the UERU town hall on grading, UERU is excited to present a panel discussion on assessing student learning at the course level. This discussion will be framed in the larger issue of student learning and feedback approaches. However, it will focus on the challenging question of summative assessment of student learning at the course level and the various challenges this presents, from impact of high-stake assessments to the more recent challenges posed by generative AI.
Panelists:
  • Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, University of California Irvine
  • Linda Adler-Kassner, Associate Vice Chancellor of Teaching and Learning; Faculty Director; Distinguished Professor Writing Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
  • Tim McKay, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, Education, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, University of Michigan
Moderator:
  • Josipa Roska, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and  Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Virginia
Organizers:
  • Michael Dennin,  Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning & Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine
  • Archie Holmes, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, The University of Texas System, University of Texas System

UERU Town Hall:

Assessment for and of learning in the age of AI: 

The University of Sydney’s Two-Lane Model

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall

UERU Town Hall:

Assessment for and of learning in the age of AI: The University of Sydney’s Two-Lane Model

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 4:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall

The first question of the 2030 Boyer Report asks, “Will we prioritize transformative education for life, work, and citizenship in the age of daunting challenges in need of world-embracing solutions?” (p. 3). Trevett-Smith et al.’s (2026) contribution to the new The Equity-Excellence Imperative in Action notes that assessment is a key step to any responses to this provocation. What are new ways to think about curricular assessment and academic integrity in the age of AI — certainly a "daunting challenge" if there was one?

In this Town Hall, Professor Adam Bridgeman (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning) and Professor Mary Wright present the “two lane model,” an institution-wide schema for thinking about assessment of student learning, now adopted across all of the University of Sydney, much of Australia and New Zealand, and some of the UK. Secure assessments, which are in-person tasks such as exams or internships, are designed to offer assurance of learning and restrict or prohibit AI. Open assessments, such as take-home exams or papers, are designed as assessment for learning, and a student’s AI usage cannot be controlled. This institution-wide approach offers individual instructors a refreshing opportunity to avoid a plethora of academic integrity cases, and it gives the institution a mechanism to assure the public that students are meeting key institutional learning outcomes. The session will describe the change process involved in rewriting policies, convincing skeptical colleagues, and categorizing 30K+ assessments, as well as the challenges and complexities of this process (e.g., how can writing, a key university learning outcome, be secured?). Discussion will focus on challenges to and affordances of adapting the system to a US context. 

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic: UERU Growth and Development

Thursday, April 23 |Virtual Zoom Meeting

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic: UERU Growth and Development

Thursday, April 23 | Virtual Zoom Meeting | 2:30pm ET, 1:30pm CT, 12:30pm MT, 11:30am PT

UERU Hot Topics sessions are drop-in conversations among peer UVPs about subjects of current interest (sometimes planned, other times open-ended). Please email Steve if you would like to host a session.

*Only UVP UERU members are able access the Zoom meeting link

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic: UERU Growth and Development

Friday, April 24 |Virtual Zoom Meeting

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Wednesday, May 13 |Virtual Zoom Meeting

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic: UERU Growth and Development

Friday, April 24 | Virtual Zoom Meeting | 12:00pm ET, 11:00am CT, 10:00am MT, 9:00am PT

UERU Hot Topics sessions are drop-in conversations among peer UVPs about subjects of current interest (sometimes planned, other times open-ended). Please email Steve if you would like to host a session.

*Only UVP UERU members are able access the Zoom meeting link

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Wednesday, May 13| Virtual Zoom Meeting | 12:00pm ET, 11:00am CT, 10:00am MT, 9:00am PT

UERU Hot Topics sessions are drop-in conversations among peer UVPs about subjects of current interest (sometimes planned, other times open-ended). Please email Steve if you would like to host a session.

*Only UVP UERU members are able access the Zoom meeting link

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Thursday, May 28 |Virtual Zoom Meeting

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Thursday, May 28 |Virtual Zoom Meeting | 2:30pm ET, 1:30pm CT, 12:30pm MT, 11:30am PT

UERU Hot Topics sessions are drop-in conversations among peer UVPs about subjects of current interest (sometimes planned, other times open-ended). Please email Steve if you would like to host a session.

*Only UVP UERU members are able access the Zoom meeting link

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Wednesday, June 10 |Virtual Zoom Meeting

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Wednesday, June 10 |Virtual Zoom Meeting | 12:00pm ET, 11:00am CT, 10:00am MT, 9:00am PT

UERU Hot Topics sessions are drop-in conversations among peer UVPs about subjects of current interest (sometimes planned, other times open-ended). Please email Steve if you would like to host a session.

*Only UVP UERU members are able access the Zoom meeting link

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Thursday, June 25|Virtual Zoom Meeting

Drop-In UVP Hot Topic

Thursday, June 25 |Virtual Zoom Meeting | 2:30pm ET, 1:30pm CT, 12:30pm MT, 11:30am PT

UERU Hot Topics sessions are drop-in conversations among peer UVPs about subjects of current interest (sometimes planned, other times open-ended). Please email Steve if you would like to host a session.

*Only UVP UERU members are able access the Zoom meeting link

PAST UERU EVENTS & COLLOQUIA

2026

  • Virtual Town Hall with PebblePad: Future Ready Learners, and High-Impact Practices (April 15, 2026)
  • Virtual Town Hall: University of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Emerging & Collaborative Studies (April 2, 2026)
  • Virtual Town Hall: Grading System Reforms from Cambridge to California (March 26, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall: Teaching Evaluation Reform: The State of the Art (March 5, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall: Lamborn-Hughes Institute: Impact Reports from 2025 (February 24, 2026)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Strada: Work-Based Learning (February 19, 2026)

2025

  • Virtual Town Hall with Arizona State University's Work-Integrated Learning Accelerator (December 11, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Podium Education: Career Readiness in Ohio (November 12, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Nikos Varelas on the University of Illinois ChicagoTransfer Portal in Action (October 30, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Knack: Peer Tutoring as a High-Impact Practice: Data-Driven Solutions to Today’s Higher Ed Challenges (October 28, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Deans’ (who are former UVPs) Perspectives on Undergraduate Education (October 16, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with UERU & Coalition For Student Wellness (C4SW) (August 12, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with CUR & UERU: Innovation in Undergraduate Research (May 22, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall: Science Leadership with Shawn Bediako (May 22, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with SERU Consortium: The Multi-Engagement Model: Understanding Diverse Pathways to Student Success at Research Universities; Read report here! (March 26, 2025) 
  • Virtual Town Hall with Knack: Shaping the Future of Peer Support with Public-Private Partnerships (March 24, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall on Lamborn-Hughes Institute Impact: Reports from 2024 (March 5, 2025)
  • Equitable and Effective Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education: A UERU Call to Action Convening Howard University, Washington D.C. (January 24, 2025)
  • National Conference: Elevating Holistic Student Success: Enrollment Management to World Readiness co-located with AAC & U, Washington, D.C. (January 22 - 23, 2025)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Urban Serving Universities: Equity/Excellence at Urban-Serving Universities: President/Chancellor Perspectives (January 10, 2025)

2024

  • Virtual Town Hall with Dr. Michael Toland and Dr. David Dueber (Dec 12, 2024)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Dr. Bill Davis and Dr. Julie Posselt (Dec 10, 2024)
  • The Boyer 2030 Report in International Perspective: Focus on Teaching/Learning (Nov 12, 2024; Pod Network 49th Annual Conference
  • Making the Case for Boyer 2030 at the APLU Annual Meeting (Nov 11, 2024).
  • Virtual Town Hall with Dr. Chad Brassil (Sep 13, 2024)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Provost Katherine Newman (Aug 21, 2024)
  • Lamborn-Hughes Institute at Colorado State University (Aug 6-8, 2024)
  • UERU-sponsored University of Pittsburgh Mentoring & Advising Summit (March 8, 2024; virtual)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Dr. Bryan Cook (Urban Institute) on Achieving Equitable Access (February 27, 2024)
  • "Community Conversations" Webinar Series: Transfer Student Advising (January 26, 2024; virtual)
  • Virtual Town Hall with Dr. Rich Reddick on Boyer 2030 Implementation (January 23, 2024)

  • National Conference, co-located with AAC&U (January 17-18, 2024; Washington, D.C.)

Past Event Recordings