APLU In The News
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AgriPulse
How US foreign aid boosts the economy back home
Ask many Americans what we get in return for our foreign aid investment and they’ll likely point to outcomes like increased social and economic development in low-income countries. These results have been well-demonstrated. But the impact of foreign aid reverberates far beyond the developing world. The big impact this support has right here at home…
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Chemical & Engineering News
Amid tensions with China, US emphasizes rules around research security
When Chuan He was first invited to start up a lab at Peking University in 2008, the first thing he did was notify his US employer—he’s a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago—of his plans. He’s been working part-time in China ever since, making sure he follows the rules so everyone knows about his…
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Albuquerque Journal
What you need to know about higher ed
There is something economists call the college earnings premium – the amount of money college graduates earn in excess of people with high school diplomas. It amounts to about $32,000 more a year, according to the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and that gap widens every year. Of course, a higher paycheck isn’t the…
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Campus Technology
3 Institutions Doing Innovative Work to Boost Degree Completion
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has announced three finalists for its 2019 Degree Completion Award, an annual recognition program that identifies higher ed institutions that “employ innovative approaches to improve degree completion while ensuring educational quality.” The finalists — the University of Central Florida, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and…
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Nature
Trump’s top scientist outlines plan to reduce foreign influence on US research
After months of outcry over whether the United States government is unfairly targeting foreign-born researchers over purported security breaches, President Donald Trump’s science adviser is launching an effort to strengthen national policies on research security.
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Inside Higher Ed
APLU Opposes Cengage-McGraw Hill Merger
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities yesterday published a letter to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, urging that it block the proposed merger of publishers Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. “The textbook market is already highly concentrated, which has helped fuel cost increases far exceeding the overall rate of inflation for several decades. Increased…
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Campus Technology
Protecting Campus Intellectual Property: Best Practices for Addressing Foreign Threats to Universities
In recent years, federal intelligence, security and science agencies and Congress have expressed concerns regarding theft of intellectual property, breaches in scientific integrity, cyberattacks, the participation of academic researchers in foreign talent recruitment programs and other forms of foreign interference relating to research performed at American universities.
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Boston Magazine
When Will College Admissions Culture Change for Good?
From the start, this scandal was never just about the scandal itself: In a number of ways, the illegal behavior called attention to the perfectly legal methods—many of them featured in these pages—that some wealthy parents use to get their kids into elite schools. With its national scope, star-studded docket, and wall-to-wall media coverage, the…
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Washington Post
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront
More than a decade ago, Chinese physicist Pan Jian-Wei returned home from Europe to help oversee research into some of the most important technology of the 21st century. At a conference in Shanghai this summer, Pan and his team offered a rare peek at the work he described as a “revolution.” They spoke of the…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Higher-Ed Groups Are Warning Colleges Against ‘Surveillance’ of Chinese Academics. On Some Campuses, That’s Already Begun.
Monitoring Chinese scholars in the United States could “trample on individual rights” and impede scientific research, a group of prominent higher-education associations said in a statement released on Monday. The statement, published by the PEN America, a free-speech nonprofit organization, is the latest signal that advocates for American research universities are worried about higher education’s…
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