APLU In The News
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The New York Times (via Seattle Times)
Judge blocks part of Trump’s immigration order
A federal judge blocked part of President Trump’s executive order on immigration on Saturday evening, ordering that refugees and others trapped at airports across the United States should not be sent back to their home countries. But the judge stopped short of letting them into the country or issuing a broader ruling on the constitutionality…
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The Topeka Capital-Journal
Kansas State president warns students about travel restrictions, calls Trump order ‘detrimental’
Peter McPherson, director of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, said Trump’s executive order is causing “significant disruption and hardship” to students and scholars at universities like Kansas State. “These individuals returned home to visit in compliance with the immigration designation they received, but are now stranded abroad and unable to return to their…
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Arizona university professors: Donald Trump’s immigration executive order is un-American
More than 75 professors from Arizona’s three state universities have signed a national petition denouncing President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration as discriminatory and detrimental to the country. Over the weekend, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities President Peter McPherson said the ban is causing “significant disruption and hardship” to university students, researchers and…
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Wall Street Journal
Campuses Checking On International Students, Faculty After Trump Order
Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, said in an interview Saturday that while the association is hearing stories from member schools about individuals affected by the order, it doesn’t know how many people are unable to return to campuses.
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The New York Times
College Success, for All
Public colleges and universities enroll nearly three-quarters of students. The sheer size of these institutions means that they have the potential to substantially increase economic mobility nationally. These schools can increase enrollment and maintain quality, something often missed in rankings. Scale is an asset.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
What You Need to Know About Colleges and the Immigration Ban
President Trump’s executive order Friday that bars all refugees from entering the United States, as well as citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, prompted colleges to frantically start trying to determine what it meant for them.
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The Wall Street Journal
President Trump, DACA, Compassion and Rule of Law
As a matter of fairness President-Trump should maintain the DACA immigration order. We appreciate that he’s already stated “we’re going to work something out” on the program. DACA offers deferred status to undocumented individuals who were brought as children by others and have lived here continuously since 2007. Many were brought to this country at…
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
At Long Last, Agency Completes Overhaul of Rules on Use of Humans in Research
The Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities issued a joint statement emphasizing that point. A rule requiring universities to track and retain the personal information of the millions of people who had donated tissue samples would have imposed “enormous” cost and time burdens, slowing overall research, the two associations…
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University Business
Higher ed enters the age of accountability
Craig Lindwarm, director of congressional and governmental affairs for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), points out that over the last several years, public four-year schools have spent more per student than is covered by tuition increases. If the federal government offered states matching funds to reinvest in higher ed, that could ease…
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Inside Higher Ed
Summer Pell Left Out of Congressional Spending Bill
A House appropriations bill released this week leaves out new funding to restore summer Pell Grants, disappointing advocates who made that item a priority heading into the lame-duck session. The continuing resolution also includes $872 million for the 21st Century Cures Act, including $352 million for the National Institutes of Health Innovation Account. Higher ed…
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