Staff Highlights

Milan Ephraim, Assistant Director of APLU’s Office for International, Community, and Economic Engagement, presented at the International Town & Gown Association’s Annual Conference on how APLU’s Commission on Economic and Community Engagement is developing a framework for demonstrating community engaged institutions’ impact. 

Jennifer Keup, Vice President for Urban Initiatives at APLU and Executive Director of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, presented on a panel at the City Club of Cleveland about the role of public urban-serving research universities in their cities and the extraordinary impact they have on their regions.

Doug Steele, Vice President for Food, Agriculture, & Natural Resources at APLU, spoke last month about leading in times of change at the Joint Council of Extension Professionals Public Issues Leadership Development Conference.

APLU’s Vice President for Research Policy and Advocacy Debbie Altenburg testified before the lawmakers in the Virginia House of Delegates on the potential impact of cuts to federal research on April 8.

APLU’s Megan McKeown spoke on a panel at a February meeting of the National Council of Space Grant Directors . McKeown discussed current policy issues affecting NASA, scientific research, and APLU’s federal advocacy.

APLU’s Vice President for Research Policy and Advocacy Debbie Altenburg wrote an article on the federal research policy landscape in the Council of University Research Administrators Magazine with two colleagues.

Jennifer Keup, Vice President for Urban Initiatives at APLU and Executive Director of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, co-authored a series of research briefs exploring the relationship between high-impact practices and advising. The briefs were published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina.

APLU Alvaro Muñiz presented on the ROI of APLU’s IEP program at the University Economic Development Association Summit in early October alongside colleague Caydan Henslee

Debbie Altenburg, Vice President for Research Policy and Advocacy at APLU, is speaking at a National Academies meeting on bolstered research security efforts in higher education on September 16.

Bernard Mair, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs & Chief Academic Officer, recently coauthored the “Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure” in the Journal of PLOS Computational Biology. The article features ten simple and actionable ways for universities to align academic evaluation processes with the principles of open science to nurture and reward skills, contributions, and expertise among their faculty.