APLU In The News
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Associations Now
After Feedback, Department Of Education Backtracks On College Ratings System
When a group of higher-education associations unveiled the framework for a system to track the long-term success of college graduates earlier this year, it did so on the heels of a major announcement by the U.S. Department of Education. DOE, at the time, said it was working on a college-ratings system to help prospective students…
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The Southern Illinoisian
SIU’s economic development efforts earn national recognition
SIU was recently designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperty University by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU).The designation lasts 10 years and SIU is one of 18 colleges to receive the distinction this year. There are 48 universities and colleges in the nation with the designation.
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Inside Higher Ed
‘In the Face of Inequality’
Historically black colleges — public and private — were created amid an era of overt discrimination and hostility to their mission. A new book traces how they responded to those challenges, typically without the financing enjoyed by other institutions, as well as to challenges that followed the theoretical end of Jim Crow. In the Face…
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Lawrence Journal-World
KU nabs distinction from Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Kansas University is one of 18 institutions named this year to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities 2015 class of Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities, KU announced Wednesday.
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Phoenix Business Journal
UA recognized as an Innovation, Economic Prosperity University
The University of Arizona has been recognized as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
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Inside Higher Ed
Debt-Free and (Mostly) Detail-Free
As the idea of debt-free college swirls around the Democratic presidential campaign and some liberal policy circles, the groups that represent colleges and universities are sizing up what it might mean for them.
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The Clarion-Ledger
Universities’ initiatives battle global hunger
Hunger and food insecurity are problems that are at once global and local. To be sure, relatively affluent nations like the U.S. face far less dire circumstances than do regions of the world like Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The National Law Review
The PATENT and Innovation Acts – Targeting Patent Troll Abuses – Voted to the Floor of the Senate and House with More Work to be Done
Patent reform legislation targeting patent trolls continues to move forward as the Senate’s PATENT Act, introduced into the Senate at the end of April, was voted out of Committee and to the Senate floor by a 16-4 vote on Thursday, June 4, 2015; and the Innovation Act, introduced into the House of Representatives in February…
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NC State Technician
Hunt hosts economic summit
“Am I allowed here?” asked former UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student, Mark Weinberg, during the reception at the end of the first day of the Summer Meeting of the Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity in Hunt Library on Monday.Weinberg, now Dean of the School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University, was one…
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