APLU In The News

“Election-year politics should not foreclose progress in the year ahead,” Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, said in a statement on President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal. Ambitious proposals to pour money into seeking a cure for cancer and the like “should not be immediately dismissed simply because there will be…

“Year-round Pell grants help students graduate faster, with less debt, and join the workforce sooner — all of which contributes to student success and a healthy economy,” said APLU President Peter McPherson in a statement Tuesday. “Combined with full funding of the Pell grant program and indexing future increases to the rate of inflation, the…