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Science Magazine
House bill gives NIH 3% raise, blocks cuts to overhead payments
The National Institutes of Health’s budget would get a modest 3.2% raise, to $35.2 billion, in a draft spending bill released by a House of Representatives committee today. To the relief of U.S. research universities, the measure would also explicitly block a proposal by the Trump Administration to slash by two-thirds the payments that NIH…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
House Republicans Counter Trump on University Research Costs
House Republicans issued a fiscal 2018 budget plan on Wednesday that rejects the Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate or sharply cut so-called indirect-cost payments to universities for medical research. The plan, offered by Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma and chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the National Institutes of Health, makes clear…
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Inside Higher Ed
(Largely) Shunning White House on Higher Ed Spending
The Trump administration’s first budget proposal was greeted coolly by Republican lawmakers (amid deep consternation from advocates for higher education) when it was released in May. Many members of Congress avoided direct criticism but suggested they would not go along with major cuts in popular programs, including a plan to slash the rates at which…
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Politico
How innovation dies
Put expensive high-tech scientific equipment in a former citrus packing house more than 60 years old, throw in an overworked air conditioner, a corroding foundation, and the sticky Central Florida climate, and you’ve got problems.The University of Florida’s Citrus Research and Education Center is doing cutting-edge work to find cures for new biological threats to…
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Inside Higher Ed
Building Faculty Buy-In on Digital Courseware
The idea that the adoption of digital instructional technologies will lag without faculty buy-in is becoming widely accepted by college administrators and (smart) vendors alike. So, too, is the reality that professors are unlikely to buy in unless they are can be persuaded that a particular piece of software or digital course content will help…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
What Would the Repeal of Higher Ed’s Foundational Law Mean for Colleges?
Remarks by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week focused attention on an idea that would fundamentally change higher ed: repealing its foundational piece of legislation — the Higher Education Act of 1965 — and replacing it with a new law. Ms. DeVos first suggested in May that the law should be scrapped. And earlier this…
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Inside Higher Ed
Transparency With Staying Power
The Department of Education appears to be planning to keep around one of the most high-profile higher ed initiatives of the Obama administration. Department staff are taking steps to update the data feeding the College Scorecard, a tool that allows prospective students to look at measures like the debt burden of an institution’s graduates, by…
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Education Dive
Accreditor: Content, graduate impact outweigh student outcomes in importance
The future of accreditation depends on the idea that, while it is important to track graduation rates and other performance indicators, it is more important for accreditors to regulate the quality of education and pathways to content mastery, according to a recent op-ed by Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors Executive Director Joseph Vibert.
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Lawrence-Journal World
Outgoing KU chancellor reflects on barrier-breaking eight years of leading the university
Becoming the first woman and the first African-American chancellor of the University of Kansas seemed, in many cases, more remarkable to others than to Bernadette Gray-Little herself. “For a number of people that I met here in Lawrence, especially women, it was extraordinarily important and significant,” Gray-Little said. “…They didn’t know that they would ever…
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WSFA
Auburn University trying to help achieve food security
Auburn University continues to take an active role in the conversation regarding food insecurity at home and abroad. Recently a number of administrators were tapped to examine domestic and global food security. June Henton, dean of the College of Human Sciences at Auburn, Auburn’s incoming president Dr. Steven Leath, and Paula Hunker, director of strategy…
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