APLU In The News
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The Huffington Post
Demystifying the State of Higher Education
In the run-up to the first day of classes each year, students and families are inundated with higher education statistics and often left wondering what information really matters or even which facts and figures to trust. With college access and affordability already emerging as central issues in the 2016 election cycle, the year ahead promises…
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Inside Higher Ed
The New College Scorecard
The Obama administration over the weekend unveiled the revamped college information website it created instead of its original plan to rate colleges, releasing a trove of new federal data about the nation’s colleges and universities.
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Money Magazine
Obama Administration Launches New, Improved College Website
To help students better compare colleges, the federal government on Saturday launched a revamped College Scorecard website. Among other features, the site will publish earnings for federal aid recipients from every college in the country.
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Inside Higher Ed
University Leaders Push for Better Graduation Data
More than 200 university presidents and chancellors on Monday urged the Obama administration to incorporate voluntary, institution-submitted data on student completion rates into its forthcoming consumer information tool.
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WKBW
Back to School at UB as major initiatives near
It’s the first day of school for colleges across western New York, including the University at Buffalo. UB is welcoming in the new year with a national recognition of a major initiative aimed to get students to graduate in four years.
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Inside Higher Ed
Coping with Cuts
Four-year public colleges and universities have increased their education-related spending even as overall funding has declined.
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Lawrence Journal-World
KU Today: 6 questions with the chancellor
Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little recently sat down with the Journal-World to talk about KU’s progress last year and goals for the upcoming academic year. Here’s what we asked her.
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The Montana Standard
MSU-Bozeman supports active Engineers Without Borders chapter
Engineers Without Borders has more than 200 chapters around the world.Montana State University-Bozeman was one of the earliest chapters to organize after EWB-USA was established in 2002, said civil engineering professor Otto Stein, who is faculty adviser for the organization’s MSU chapter.
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Tri-State Livestock News
World Bank continues CGIAR funding only after U.S. push to maintain it
The World Bank has cut its funding for the global research institutions known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) from $50 million per year to $30 million, and agreed to that amount only after 46 U.S. agricultural groups and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and ranking member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.,…
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Inside Higher Ed
The Non-Ratings Future
After more than two years of anxiety over how the Obama administration planned to judge their institutions, many college and university leaders exhaled deeply earlier this summer when federal officials dropped their plan to create a college ratings system.
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