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Tri-State Livestock News
Perdue tells land grants not to count on USDA money
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told the heads of the land grant universities on Tuesday that they should not count on money from the Agriculture Department to make up for any cuts to their budgets from state governments. Perdue told the convention of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities that university heads should tell…
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Campus Technology
Growth in International Student Enrollment Slows, Even as Impact of Global Perspective Intensifies
Even as the number of international students in the United States increased by 3 percent over the prior year, the count for those enrolled at a U.S. institution for the first time in fall 2016 declined by nearly 10,000 students — the first time the “Open Doors” project has seen a drop of those numbers…
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Ed Tech
AI Boosts Personalized Learning in Higher Education
Personalized learning, which tailors educational content to the unique needs of individual students, has become a huge component of K–12 education. A growing number of college educators are embracing the trend, taking advantage of data analytics and artificial intelligence to deliver just-right, just-in-time learning to their students. Data-driven insights are becoming integral to business and…
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Houston Chronicle
Texas college leaders worry about impact of federal tax overhaul
The proposed federal tax overhaul could affect large university endowments and graduate student tuition costs, leaving higher education groups worried about the potential impact on student costs and university finances. The measures in both houses of Congress would tax large private university endowments, including those of Rice University and Trinity University in San Antonio. The…
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The Oklahoman
Oklahoma State University wins national community outreach award for work with Chickasaw Nation on a health initiative
Oklahoma State University is the 2017 winner of a national community outreach award for its collaboration with the Chickasaw Nation on a health initiative to improve child nutrition and public health. The C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship recognizes how colleges have redesigned their learning, discovery and engagement missions to become even more involved with…
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Inside Higher Ed
Why Not Attack Tax Reform?
As both houses of Congress charge forward with wide-ranging tax overhaul plans, higher education leaders have chosen to attack specific provisions they feel would hurt colleges and students instead of mounting a more ambitious assault against Republicans’ broader goals. The strategy is in some ways ironic. Leaders who often talk about the complexity of the…
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Herald Sun
Tax law changes could threaten the affordability of higher education for students
Proposed federal tax changes would levy new taxes on the endowments of private universities like Duke, reduce the deductibility of student-loan interest, count grad student cost breaks as income, change the tax rules for charitable giving and even tinker with the ones that govern debt financing. Buried in the details of a tax proposal Republicans…
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Inside Higher Ed
Tips on Handling Firebrands
Over the last year, college and university leaders have grappled with provocateurs who effectively shut down campuses with their appearances and tap deeply into the institutions’ pocketbooks. Administrators have not yet figured out how to handle a speech by white supremacist Richard Spencer, for instance, and those like him, without spending hundreds of thousands of…
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Centre Daily Times
Barron tapped to lead national commission on economics
Barron has been tapped by the APLU to chair the organization’s Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity. “Public institutions of higher education are in a unique position to drive economic development, job growth and student career success — and we need to harness the incredible abilities of our students and researchers, and nurture and…
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