APLU In The News
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The Washington Post
Colleges are trying to get students to make a course correction
Cleveland State University made a proposition to its students two years ago: Take a full course load of 30 credits a year and get $200 off tuition and a $200 book stipend. Only 32 percent of its undergraduates finished a degree within six years, if at all. Hundreds of students were slipping through the cracks…
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The Washington Post
Universities fear the federal research funding pipeline is withering
University officials from around the country fear that a key engine of U.S. innovation and economic power is in danger of stalling: federal investment in basic research. The nation needs to spend more, they say, in pursuit of discoveries with unknown and long-term payoffs. Sometimes, they say, lawmakers focus too much on research with short-term…
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Roll Call
Individual Universities Write to Judiciary Panel Leaders on Patent Legislation
As lawmakers make another effort to pass legislation targeting abusive patent litigation, universities are continuing to let them know they have problems with proposals they think go too far. On Tuesday, more than 140 universities signed a letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders saying they’re “deeply concerned” that “much of the patent legislation…
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Inside Higher Ed
Feedback on Ratings, Round 3
From the moment President Obama called for a federal college ratings system some 18 months ago, colleges and universities have criticized the idea and lobbied against it.
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Times of London
Obama college rating plans “should be ditched”
The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities wants President Barack Obama’s administration to instead embrace a more “practical plan for transparency and accountability reform”, describing current proposals – which would see universities rated on tuition fee rates, the amount of debt students accumulate, and the amount of money they are paid post-graduation – as…
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Times of London
Obama college rating plans ‘should be ditched’
The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities wants President Barack Obama’s administration to instead embrace a more “practical plan for transparency and accountability reform”, describing current proposals – which would see universities rated on tuition fee rates, the amount of debt students accumulate, and the amount of money they are paid post-graduation – as…
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Inside Higher Ed
A Plan for Deregulating Higher Ed
To the delight of many colleges and universities, Senator Lamar Alexander plans to approach the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act as a gardening activity.
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The Washington Post
115 Education Groups: GOP No Child Left Behind Legislation Is Vastly Underfunded
The Republican-dominated House education committee just approved legislation, H.R. 5, that is a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act with funding levels that critics say are inadequate to properly support K-12 public education. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate’s education committee, has released draft legislation that has been hit as…
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Physics Today
The changing political climate for US science
Disunity and dysfunction in Washington should not dissuade physicists from making the case for robust federal funding of science By Neal Lane February 2015 — Recently, I was invited to share some thoughts about US science policy and research funding at a conference inaugurating Rice University’s Quantum Materials Center. One of the attendees suggested that…
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Urban University
BLOG: Getting Better At Getting Better: President Mark Rosenberg, FIU, on Advancing Student Performance
One of the lessons that I learned as Chancellor of the State University System of Florida (2005-2009) was how to listen better than I had ever listened before. In essence, not to be “tone-deaf.” Throughout this country, there is continuing concern for the shape of things to come in higher education. Our new Provost, Ken…
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