APLU In The News

January 2, 2020

The Register-Democrat

New retention effort to begin for college students

West Virginia University in Morgantown is set to offer next semester a new benefit believed to retain students, and if the program works, it could be adopted at WVU Tech in Beckley. The implementation of “completion grants” is set to help fill the gap between checkbooks and commencement, and WVU Provost and Vice President for […]
January 2, 2020

UA joins diversity initiative

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville is among 20 public research institutions to recently join a National Science Foundation-funded effort to increase diversity among faculty members in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. UA has similar numbers of women and minority engineering faculty members compared with other large public universities in the region, according to data […]