ACUE's mission is to ensure student success through

quality instruction.

Who we are

The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) delivers the highest-quality courses, pathways, and certifications and with quick-to-implement practices that make a huge impact on student success.

Instructors who earn a certification in ACUE’s Effective Teaching Practice Framework are proven to...

Boost persistence and
completion for students

Improve faculty
confidence
and engagement

Propel measured results that help institutions meet their strategic goals

Not enough students are succeeding.

Higher education isn’t meeting the needs of many of our students. This lack of persistence and retention is detrimental to both students and institutions alike.

There are many levers that colleges can pull to help improve student success, but the largest factor of all is too often overlooked: effective teaching.

Effective teaching can help determine a student's future.

ACUE was created to meet one goal: help students succeed by improving teaching. 

Working collaboratively with scholars in teaching and learning, ACUE developed the Effective Teaching Practice Framework to meet that goal.

When instructors  begin working with ACUE, they quickly learn that small changes can make a big difference with their students.  

For many students, being engaged with evidenced-based teaching practices is the difference between failure and success.  

Effective teaching can help determine a student's future.

ACUE was created to meet one goal: help students succeed by improving teaching. 

Working collaboratively with scholars in teaching and learning, ACUE developed the Effective Teaching Practice Framework to meet that goal.

When instructors begin working with ACUE, they quickly learn that small changes can make a big difference with their students.  

For many students, being engaged with evidenced-based teaching practices is the difference between failure and success.  

Faculty love ACUE

We have more than 33,000 instructors who are raving fans because taking an ACUE course has been a game changer for them. 

Regardless of how many years they have been teaching, faculty report an increased enthusiasm for teaching, more connections to their colleagues, increased self-efficacy – evidence that this is a strategy to mitigate faculty burnout.

Our data shows students and institutions benefit.

We created one of the education industry’s most rigorous and sophisticated systems for measurement, which shows that instructors certified in ACUE’s Framework truly move the needle on student success.

And when students learn more, prepare for their future, and persist to graduation, institutions meet their student success goals and see a significant return on their investment in faculty.

Our data shows students and institutions benefit.

We created one of the education industry’s most rigorous and sophisticated systems for measurement, which shows that instructors certified in ACUE’s Framework truly move the needle on student success.

And when students learn more, prepare for their future, and persist to graduation, institutions meet their student success goals and see a significant return on their investment in faculty.

ACUE provides higher education’s only nationally recognized teaching certification, and we will not rest until every college instructor is a great teacher.

We owe that to our instructors and their students.

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