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Feedstuffs
APLU/AAVMC unveils antibiotic resistance report
The Association of Public & Land-grant Universities (APLU)/Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Task Force on Antibiotic Resistance in Production Agriculture recently unveiled a report that outlines a comprehensive national strategy for diminishing the role antibiotics used in food animal production systems play in the broader antimicrobial resistance (AMR) problem.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
What a Mass Exodus at a Linguistics Journal Means for Scholarly Publishing
It was the kind of exit designed to make a statement. Last week all six editors and all 31 editorial-board members resigned from Lingua, a prominent linguistics journal, after a disagreement with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The announcement re-energized concerns about the relationship between academics and for-profit companies, and the future of scholarly publishing.
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Inside Higher Ed
Public Universities Back Protest of Elsevier Pricing
Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, issued a statement Monday expressing strong support for the move of the six editors and 31 editorial board members of Lingua, a top linguistics journal, to resign to protest Elsevier pricing. The protest has attracted considerable attention among advocates for open-access publishing (in which…
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Inside Higher Ed
Groups to Recognize Public Colleges’ Embrace of Assessment
Two associations of public universities plan to recognize institutions that engage in campuswide activity aimed at assessing and improving student learning, for the sake of internal improvement rather than accountability. TheExcellence in Assessment designation is a joint program of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities,…
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Southwest Farm Press
Joe Outlaw to Receive Excellence in Extension Award
Joe Outlaw, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist, will receive the 2015 Excellence in Extension Award given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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Ag Web
Aging Buildings at Ag Schools Could Cost Billions to Fix
You may have a GPS on your tractor, a drone collecting thermal imagery of your fields, and an app to track your irrigation pivots, but your collegiate son or daughter is going to ag classes in buildings that are desperately in need of renovation.
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Inside Higher Ed
Agriculture Colleges Have $8.4B in Deferred Maintenance
Colleges of agriculture authorized to receive U.S. Department of Agriculture funding have serious deferred maintenance needs, a study by Sightlines and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has found.
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Inside Higher Ed
A Tougher Test for Colleges
For decades, the federal government’s main yardstick for judging how colleges perform with federal aid dollars has been the default rate on student loans. Each year the U.S. Department of Education tallies up how many borrowers from a given college fell so far behind on their federal loan payments that they defaulted within several years…
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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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