APLU In The News
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Inside Higher Ed
New Approach to Apprenticeships
President Trump last year issued an executive order calling for an expansion of apprenticeship opportunities while also increasing federal funding for such programs by roughly $100 million. The U.S. Department of Labor subsequently pulled together a 20-member task force of experts, including the secretaries of education, labor and commerce, to develop recommendations to make that…
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Overhauling federal student aid is a bad idea
In President Donald Trump’s determination to dismantle all things Obama, his administration should spare the former president’s higher-education student loan reforms. They provide opportunities for more students to attend college and to repay loans at a rate that won’t put graduates on the road to ruin.
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Insight Into Diversity
Coalition of Universities Collaborate to End Health Disparities
Eradicating health disparities for minority populations in urban areas has been a persistent struggle for healthcare researchers and organizations at both the local and national levels. While numerous causes have been identified as contributing to ongoing inequities — such as a lack of community providers and resources — these factors have been difficult to change.…
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WRAL
Rep. Foxx’s misguided student aid bill betrays her own background
If there’s anyone in Congress who would understand the challenges many students face in paying for a higher education – and the value it adds to our economy and society – it should be North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx. She holds a doctorate in teaching, she taught and was an administrator at a community college…
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Inside Higher Ed
Congressional Hearing Focuses on Espionage
A congressional hearing Wednesday focused on the vulnerability of U.S. academic institutions to foreign espionage activities and intellectual property theft. The hearing, held by two subcommittees of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, suggests that higher education is likely to continue coming under scrutiny from lawmakers who argue that it should be doing…
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Houston Chroncile
UT releases graduate earnings, loan data after Census partnership
The University of Texas System took a major step Monday in decoding the value of a college degree, becoming the first university system to partner with the U.S. Census Bureau to release earnings and student loan data by major for graduates who have moved all over the country.
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Association Now
Public Research Universities to Collaborate to Boost Number of College Grads
With a goal to help more students graduate from college and succeed in the workforce, the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities has announced a major “transformation cluster initiative.” This effort comes out of APLU’s newly minted Center for Public University Transformation.
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Inside Higher Ed
New Boost for Student Aid and Research
A massive spending bill agreed to by congressional negotiators Wednesday raises the maximum Pell Grant by $175, includes an additional $3 billion for the National Institutes of Health as well as increased funds for the National Science Foundation, and provides $152.8 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which President Trump had sought to…
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Campus Technology
New APLU Center to Tackle Public University Transformation
Student success will be the theme of a new center dedicated to “public university transformation.” The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has announced a new initiative to bring together a hundred public research universities organized in clusters to identify, refine and scale innovative practices to increase the number of four-year degree holders over…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Quiet White House Science Office Stirs Fears but Also Raises Some Hopes
Across the country, scientists are watching with dismay as the months tick by without any appointment of a White House science adviser. The omission is “symbolically worrisome,” said one of those researchers, Christopher F. D’Elia, dean of the College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. “We’d like to see scientists respected, and…
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