APLU In The News
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Northern Star
University plans full-tuition financial aid packages for high school grads
NIU President Lisa Freeman announced the university’s plan to introduce a new financial aid program called Huskie Pledge during her State of the University address on Tuesday at Altgeld Auditorium. Huskie Pledge is set to launch for the fall 2020 semester and will provide qualifying Illinois residents with a grant that covers their first year’s…
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Inside Indiana Business
BSU Joins Diverse STEM Initiative
Ball State University is joining a nationwide, three-year institutional change effort to create inclusive STEM faculty recruitment, hiring and retention processes. As part of Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty, Ball State will join 20 other universities in the effort.
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UT-Austin Seeks To Diversify STEM Faculty Ranks
The University of Texas at Austin has joined 19 other universities in a three-year effort to develop and strengthen inclusive recruitment, hiring and retention practices for STEM faculty members, school officials announced on Tuesday. The initiative is part of the Aspire Alliance, co-led by The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Center…
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Feedstuffs
Foreign ag aid provides boost to domestic farmers
The U.S. receives broad-based economic, national security and diplomatic benefits from its agricultural assistance investments in the developing world, according to a new report commissioned by the Board for International Food & Agriculture Development (BIFAD). U.S. agricultural exports to developing countries total $90 billion (of a total of $140 billion) annually and help generate an…
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Inside Higher Ed
House Dems’ Vision for Higher Ed
House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a new bill to overhaul the Higher Education Act, which doubles down on key provisions of a 2018 proposal to update the landmark law. The plan, dubbed the College Affordability Act, would boost the size of the Pell Grant, enact a federal-state partnership to make community colleges free, streamline student…
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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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