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Florida Lawmakers Probe ‘Foreign Meddling’ in Research
Florida Lawmakers Probe ‘Foreign Meddling’ in Research
Florida lawmakers are launching an investigation into the “extent of foreign meddling in taxpayer-funded research” at the state’s research institutions, in what seems to be the first inquiry of this sort at a state level. The state-level probe is happening in parallel with similar inquiries by Congress and national research agencies into the threat of…
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Forbes
College Initiatives For 2020, Part II: The University Of Rhode Island’s Student Success Investments
During the recession last decade, the University of Rhode Island (URI) lost $26 million in state support over a three-year period. That loss represented about a third of its state appropriation, posing a major threat to URI’s future. But the university used its budget crisis as a spur to revamp undergraduate education and focus on…
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Forbes
Gates Foundation Launches Major Student Success Initiative
Today, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the launch of Intermediaries For Scale, a $20 million grant program that will fund 12 existing organizations to help colleges and universities become more student-centered and more attuned to helping “low-income and first-generation students, students of color, and working adults achieve their educational goals.”
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Campus Technology
APLU Efforts to Scale Student Success Win Gates Foundation Dollars
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has received $2.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide “capacity-building services” that will support “student-centered university transformation” at its member institutions. The services will be part of APLU’s Powered by Publics: Scaling Student Success initiative; starting in early 2020, institutions participating in that…
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Diverse Education
APLU Receives $2.5M Grant to Aid Student Success
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) received a $2.5 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help break down higher education barriers for students. Under the foundation’s Intermediaries for Scale two-year grant, only 12 organizations were awarded the funding out of 200 applicants.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Are Rural Students the Next Priority for Colleges?
It’s not hard to find folks in higher education talking about the challenges of getting more rural students to and through college. It’s the solutions that are more elusive. Yet after I wrote about this issue in a newsletter last fall, readers helped to connect me to several ideas worth highlighting. Most notable: Some colleges…
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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…
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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…
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Times Higher Education
US Congress again repudiates Trump with education budget
The US Congress is finalising a budget agreement for the current year that again increases federal aid for college students and spending on university research over the objections of the Trump administration. The blueprint was announced this week by House and Senate negotiators representing both parties, then approved by the House of Representatives and sent…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
A Cash-Strapped University Bet on Student Success — and Grew
When the University of Rhode Island hit a first-year retention record this year, Dean Libutti, a vice provost, drove to Allie’s Donuts, a North Kingstown institution, and ordered a doughnut cake in the shape of an 86. Technically, the retention rate was 85.9, but that would require an extra doughnut digit and decimal, and URI…
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