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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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Chronicle of Higher Education
NIH Abandons Plan to Limit Per-Person Grant Awards
Facing protests from senior scientists, including members of its own advisory board, the National Institutes of Health on Thursday abandoned a plan to help younger researchers by imposing a general three-grant limit. Instead, the NIH is moving forward with a more complicated formula in which scientists who win a first grant under a program designed…
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Campus Technology
12 Colleges and Universities Strengthening K-16 Student Success Through Community Collaborations
The Association of Public Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) have awarded 12 public universities $50,000 each in Collaborative Opportunity Grants to scale up existing partnerships with public and private community stakeholders.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Trump Will Push Apprenticeships, Using Accreditation and Student Aid
President Trump plans to rework college-accreditation and student-aid policies in a bid to encourage greater use of apprenticeship training in higher education, a White House official said on Wednesday. Mr. Trump, who promoted the value of apprenticeship training throughout his presidential campaign, will outline the strategy next week at a meeting with the nation’s governors.…
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The Washington Post
Our college students are changing. Why aren’t our higher education policies?
Think of the typical college student. For many, the thought conjures a tableau of young adults strolling a leafy quad. They bask in the freedom of student life as they ease their way into adulthood. The real world awaits them. Think again. While this picture may have been broadly representative of college students in generations…
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Indirect Costs Back in the Crosshairs
Advocates for university-based research are working hard to make sure Congress doesn’t buy into what they say is a specious argument made by the Trump administration: that the federal government can cut reimbursement payments to research institutions without undermining the quality of the studies themselves. In March, after the release of the White House’s skinny…
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Inside Higher Ed
Universities Urged to Use Body-Worn Cameras for Police
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities is encouraging its 237 member institutions to equip its campus police departments with body-worn cameras — or at least test the technology. The organization released a policy brief on body-worn cameras Thursday, pointing to research that suggests the cameras increase police accountability and transparency, and raising awareness about…
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Inside Higher Ed
Degree Plus?
Not every student walking away with a liberal arts degree from the University of Utah — or any other institution, for that matter — feels confident picking a profession or finding a job in an often tepid market. So the university has introduced an option growing in popularity — a certificate program, what it has…
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Campus Technology
Congress Seeks to Establish New Student Data System with College Transparency Act
A new bipartisan bill introduced this week in the United States Senate and House of Representatives aims to increase transparency on higher education outcomes. The College Transparency Act of 2017 proposes a student data reporting system that tracks outcomes such as enrollment, completion and post-college success. It would overturn a ban on federal student-level data…
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Ag News Feed
Public research universities unite to address food security
Facing a vast array of food and nutrition security problems in the U.S. and abroad that pose significant humanitarian, environmental and national security risks, a commission of prominent researchers and leaders from public universities, government, non-governmental organizations and the private sector announced a comprehensive, coordinated effort to solve these challenges. While many important efforts are…
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