College University Partnership

College University Partnership (CUP) is America’s answer to providing broad access to higher education to all deserving students and institutions. The CUP Institutions are fully accredited universities and colleges that work together with the same goals of providing a united front on a global stage to promote cultural, academic exchanges, and educate and assist co-applications for students interested in member institutions.

CUP is formed by a group of leading internationally recognized universities in America, who share the same mission of identifying and nurturing future world leaders. This Partnership is non-profit. It serves the strategic interests of the leading universities and America’s goal of providing international education and scholarly exchange with broad access to and focus on excellence.

CUP universities and colleges support scholarly exchange efforts. International education is broadly defined by CUP as an ecosystem in which information sharing, resource references and channeling, promotion of best practices are integral to global advancement and world peace.

CUP demonstrates its support for transfer education by reframing the two main entry points to U.S. undergraduate degrees to be UFA (University Freshman Admission) and UTA (University Transfer Admission). In 2017 and again in 2019, broad communication reached SIOs, transfer and admission staff members of the CUP family to reaffirm the terminologies as continued commitment to future standardization of practices in marketing, recruitment, admissions, and research.

Mission: Identify and Nurture Future World Leaders Who Are As Qualified for Community Colleges as for Universities;

Connect International Students and Professionals with Quality Education and Training Options in CUP; and

Activities Conducted to Serve the Common Needs of all Participants.

CUP is founded by leading American universities and colleges and is led by an Advisory Board and an Executive Committee.

The Advisory Board Members are seasoned, accomplished and well-respected scholars, business leaders, and practitioners. They represent a broad spectrum of leadership experience, expertise and fields of practice. They meet as needed to provide guidance to the operations of CUP. The Executive Committee is consisted of professionals in the field of higher education who provide day-to-day support to the operations of CUP.

Advisory Council Board:

Executive Committee (5)

Advising Council (Region 1)

Advising Council (Region 2)

Advising Council (Region 3)

Advising Council (Region 4)

As a non-profit organization aiming to change the world for students who wish to realize their dreams of studying in the best universities, CUP must rely on the generous contributions of time and efforts from all involved. We welcome everyone’s input, friendly comments and volunteering of their previous time to promote CUP.

Any help you provide CUP is your contribution to the great cause of CUP.

Contact us below for any questions. For financial contribution, please make sure you contact us using the email below.

There are two types of activities: inviting deserving and high achieving foreign students to receive higher education of the CUP institutions and providing a platform for scholarship exchange and development.

First, Receiving Higher Education from CUP Institutions.We believe education should be without borders and the pursuit for the best education is universal and should be guided by clear vision, appropriate value, firm leadership and intelligent decision-making.

There are three mean types of activities:

CUP Membership Drive

CUP Universities, mostly from American, welcome select schools in various target countries to become CUP Schools. Each school will designate a CUP Coordinator who helps promote CUP and remind students in their schools to participate in CUP events, which include CUP applications and screening, CUP interviews, CUP Day, etc.

CUP Tours

CUP Universities will periodically make visits to CUP Schools in various countries. On these tours, the universities will host public seminars and individual sessions with parents, students and school counselors. These tours are above and beyond the regular recruitment tours and they represent the two modes of university entries, UFA and UTA simultaneously. Many times, the tours will include university transfer staff who normally only work in the US. Meeting university transfer staff fundamentally changes the perception of attending US universities through community college freshmen admissions.

Social Media

Students will have country specific social media outlets to have scheduled and free flow, spurt of the moment fun exchanges via WeChat groups, FaceBook fans and friends, etc.

Secondly, CUP As A Platform for Scholarly Exchange and Development

Management and faculty in CUP institutions take diverse approaches to global education, supports innovative and cultural appropriate education practices, and formulates policies that are both educationally sound and economically feasible. CUP institutions actively involve management, faculty and staff to be engage in various activities, including:

·        Effective leadership and strategies for educational institutions practicing student mobility from secondary schools to higher education to employment,

·        Knowledgebase and knowhow of data and information of research, scientific discoveries, and practice of integrating results into practices, connecting education broader cultural and economic purposes, and

·        Serving as a platform for best practices in student learning outcomes, innovation, and scholarly exchange.