APLU In The News
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AgriNews
Effort seeks to ensure food security
Three agricultural experts from Purdue University have been appointed to a newly created Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities commission to help ensure universal food security by 2050. The commission, called The Challenge of Change: Engaging Public Universities to Feed the World, includes Gebisa Ejeta, distinguished professor of agronomy and the 2009 World Food Prize…
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Hoosier Ag Today
New Land Grant Commission Gets Busy on Food Security
This week a new commission to address world food security began its work. The commission called The Challenge of Change: Engaging Public Universities to Feed the World was appointed by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Jay Akridge, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Purdue Agriculture is one of three appointments from Purdue. He told…
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Cleveland.com
Transfer, part-time college students should be counted in federal graduation rate, groups say
Hundreds of Cleveland State University students who will receive degrees at commencement on May 14 will not be considered graduates by the federal government. That’s because they attended part-time, transferred from another institution or dropped out and returned. The U.S. Department of Education bases a college’s graduation rate on how many first-time full-time freshmen receive…
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The Evolution
Ignoring Non-Traditional Students Invalidates Most College Ratings
If you’re eliminating a big chunk of the population that you say you’re serving with the scorecard, it’s going to kill the results. It has a huge impact on the scorecard’s effectiveness. There is another scorecard system that has been developed by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU) called the Student Achievement…
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Science
Urging universities to act on safety
Recent weeks have brought good news and bad news concerning lab safety. The good news is an extremely useful new report titled A Guide to Implementing a Safety Culture in Our Universities. Both the report and a companion websitewere issued 11 April by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), whose members include 25…
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Chemical & Engineering News
University leaders should be responsible for lab safety, report says
Presidents and chancellors of U.S. universities must take personal responsibility for changing the lab safety culture in academia, a new report says. The document, published by the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU), challenges top university officials to create high-level committees responsible for lab safety, to modify tenure and promotion requirements to include safety,…
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Inside Higher Ed
Report Recommends Ways to Keep University Labs Safe
Several major associations issued a new report Monday designed to help universities ensure that their research labs and other academic environments operate safely. The report, “A Guide to Implementing a Safety Culture in Our Universities,” was produced by a special panel created by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, in response to a series…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
4-Part Plan Seeks to Fix Mathematics Education
Math is a stumbling block for many students, and instruction may be part of the reason why. Introductory math courses that serve as gateways to majors in science, technology, engineering, and math can be stultifying bores, a presidential council has said, leaving students “with the impression that all STEM fields are dull and unimaginative.” The…
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The Philadelphia Tribune
The Philadelphia Tribune
Some of the country’s biggest colleges and universities have pledged to help more students earn degrees, which experts see as a path to the middle-class lifestyle. The American Association of Colleges and Universities and American Public Land-grant Universities, which advocates for policies, has rolled out a program to help more higher-education institutions implement changes to…
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Science
Groups protest House demands for names of fetal tissue researchers
A special investigative panel in the U.S. House of Representatives this week intensified its probe into the use of fetal tissue in biomedical research with a dozen new subpoenas aimed at researchers and abortion providers. This second round of inquiries, two of them directed to individual faculty members at the University of New Mexico (UNM)…
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