APLU In The News
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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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Inside Higher Ed
Building a Diverse STEM Workforce
When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case Fisher vs. the University of Texas in July, university admissions officers cheered the affirmation of including race and ethnicity as admissions criteria when narrowly tailored to the institution’s mission. Despite the positive decision for affirmative action, however, university leaders are facing another challenge: making…
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The New York Times
Where Donald Trump Stands on School Choice, Student Debt and Common Core
When it comes to predicting how President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration will affect America’s schools and universities, education experts say they are struggling to read the tea leaves. “The fundamental issue is that nobody really knows what the Trump administration is about” on education, said Frederick M. Hess, a conservative education policy expert. At a…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Learning From Failure in Student-Success Programs
Administrators are almost always happy to lead conference sessions about their institutions’ successes, but sessions centered on their failures are rare. You learn a lot from mistakes, sure, but standing up in a hotel ballroom to talk about how you and your colleagues screwed up — even with the best intentions — may not be…
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