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AASCU promotes appreciation for public higher education, analyzes public policies and advocates for member institutions and their students. AASCU mandate is to support the strengthening of academic quality, to promote access and inclusion, and to facilitate educational innovation. Finally AASCU fosters professional development opportunities for institutional leaders.

The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance; to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education; to promote the economic security of faculty, academic professionals, graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows, and all those engaged in teaching and research in higher education; to help the higher education community organize to make our goals a reality; and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good.

As the nation’s largest higher education organization, ACE is at the forefront of the major issues affecting postsecondary education. ACE addresses the rapidly changing needs of America’s colleges and universities by providing research and identifying innovative practices.

AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s mission is “to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education.”