APLU In The News
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Washington Monthly
Which Colleges Benefit from Counting More Graduates?
The official graduation rate that colleges must report to the U.S. Department of Education has included only first-time, full-time students who graduate from that college within 150% of normal time (three years for a two-year college or six years for a four-year college). Although part-time and non-first-time students were included in the federal government’s Integrated…
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The Detroit News
Obama Overtime Rule Will Cost Colleges
The Obama administration’s new overtime rule, issued last week, is an unwelcome interference to businesses around the U.S. It’s also going to have a negative impact on universities. The White House wanted to wave its magic wand and create higher salaries for many Americans who don’t qualify for overtime pay. Such pronouncements, however, often create…
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Inside Higher Ed
Turning Research Into a Felony
Indiana University on Wednesday challenged a new state abortion law in federal court, arguing it restricts academic freedom by criminalizing the acquisition or transfer of fetal tissue used for research. The move stands out because the university is challenging the actions of the state that supports it. The dispute also comes at a time when…
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Colorado Daily
University of Colorado calculating cost of Obama administration’s new overtime rules
The Obama administration’s new overtime rules could be costly for U.S. colleges and universities, who will now need to pay overtime to some post-doctoral researchers, athletic coaches, admissions counselors and other lower-level salaried employees. The University of Colorado, which employs roughly 30,000 people across the state, is still calculating how expensive the rule-change will be.…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
What Obama’s Overtime Rule Could Mean for Colleges
This week the Obama administration released a final rule that will extend overtime pay to millions more American workers, including hundreds of thousands of lower-level salaried employees on college campuses. Much of the attention has focused on the impact on postdoctoral fellows, the overworked, underpaid backbone of the academic research enterprise. But it’s not just…
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AgriNews
Effort seeks to ensure food security
Three agricultural experts from Purdue University have been appointed to a newly created Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities commission to help ensure universal food security by 2050. The commission, called The Challenge of Change: Engaging Public Universities to Feed the World, includes Gebisa Ejeta, distinguished professor of agronomy and the 2009 World Food Prize…
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WBAA/NPR
Purdue Agronomists Join Higher Ed Group Tackling Global Food Security
Top agronomists at Purdue University will be part of a new nationwide higher education task force on food security. The Association of Public and Land Grant Universities is putting together the 31-member commission, which aims to ensure that the world’s rapidly growing population has enough to eat.
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Feedstuffs/Growing Wisconsin
Feedstuffs/Growing Wisconsin
Drawing on the unique academic, research and leadership capabilities of public research universities, the Assn. of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) convened a new commission, The Challenge of Change: Engaging Public Universities to Feed the World, to address growing domestic and global food security challenges and ensure universal food security by 2050.
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Hoosier Ag Today
New Land Grant Commission Gets Busy on Food Security
This week a new commission to address world food security began its work. The commission called The Challenge of Change: Engaging Public Universities to Feed the World was appointed by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Jay Akridge, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Purdue Agriculture is one of three appointments from Purdue. He told…
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Cleveland.com
Transfer, part-time college students should be counted in federal graduation rate, groups say
Hundreds of Cleveland State University students who will receive degrees at commencement on May 14 will not be considered graduates by the federal government. That’s because they attended part-time, transferred from another institution or dropped out and returned. The U.S. Department of Education bases a college’s graduation rate on how many first-time full-time freshmen receive…
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