The Achievement & Assessment Institute
AAI and its centers partner with numerous agencies to improve the lives of children and adults through academics, employment, career advancement, and building healthy environments, and to enhance the capacity of organizations that help children, adults, and communities succeed.
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Grant Support
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Celebrating 10 Years of AAI
Learn about our origins and how we have grown over the last 10 years.
AAI in the News
KU's TRIO SES & STEM honors first-generation advocates at 6th annual I Am First Too poster unveiling
The Achievement & Assessment Institute’s Center for Educational Opportunity Programs is hosting its sixth annual I Am First Too commemorative poster unveiling in honor of members of the University of Kansas community who have excelled as role models and advocates of first-generation student success.
ATS Completes Another Successful Summer Deployment: Enhancing Kite® Suite with New Tools and Security Upgrades
Summer is a busy time for the Achievement and Assessment Institute’s Assessment & Technology Solutions (ATS). School is out, which means months full of meetings, coding, implementations, and testing ATS software which culminates to a single full day of updates, ATS’s summer deployment.
Applied Innovations with Sara O'Keeffe
The work of the Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) and its centers encompass a vast range of services, solutions, and partnerships. In our short interview series, Applied Innovations, we get to know some of the talented members of our team and their projects, across seven centers and various areas of impact.
In this edition, we meet Sara O'Keeffe, Graphic Designer with AAI's Center for Public Partnerships & Research.
From Proposal to Award: How AAI’s Grant Management Team Fuels Research Success
The Grant Management Team at the Achievement & Assessment Institute serves as a go-to resource for pre-grant support for AAI staff and KU faculty whose research supports AAI’s mission. The team, comprised of a Pre-Award Grant Manager and two Pre-Award Grant Coordinators, has experience navigating unique and sometimes difficult grants for faculty and staff in a many different fields.