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The New York Times
Rating Plan for Colleges Is Unveiled by the U.S.
In a report due out on Friday, the Obama administration will offer its first public glimpse of a planned system for rating how well colleges perform, saying it plans to group schools into just three broad categories — good, bad and somewhere between.
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Inside Higher Ed
Ratings Plan Arrives, Details Scant
After nearly a year and a half of public debate over its proposed college ratings, the Obama administration on Friday provided the first glimpse into how it will structure such a system, including the criteria it will use to judge colleges.
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Politico
GOP gives feds’ college rating plan an F
The Obama administration will soon publish its plan to rate more than 6,000 colleges nationwide based on the value they provide to students and to society. The goal is to steer billions in federal financial aid toward the colleges that rate highly — and to yank funds from those that fail to meet administration standards…
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Associations Now
Higher Ed Community Asks FAA to Relax Drone Regulations
Drones have proven to be a useful research tool for colleges and universities. But Federal Aviation Administration regulations have made it difficult for schools to use them. An interesting, and perhaps unexpected, player has emerged in the debate over how small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)—more commonly known as drones—ought to be regulated: higher education.
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Boston Globe
Obama Targets High Cost of College
President Obama unveiled a plan Thursday to rein in exploding college costs, drawing skepticism from some New England college presidents concerned about tying federal funding to a new performance rating system. Under Obama’s plan, the federal government would develop a report card by 2015 for all public and private colleges that would measure tuition increases,…
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Inside Higher Ed
The Second Summit
The Obama administration is once again gathering hundreds of college presidents here today for a second White House-run summit that will promote new commitments to help low-income students. Administration officials said they had won some 500 promises from college leaders, states, higher education associations, nonprofit organizations and other entities.
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The Washington Post
Obama gathers pledges for college access
Higher-education leaders from across the country are pledging to take steps to widen college opportunity and help more students finish degrees, an initiative President Obama will promote at a gathering in Washington on Thursday. The event will build on a summit Obama hosted in January at which he gathered similar commitments for college access from…
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Pine Bluff Commercial
English receives 2014 Regional Excellence in Extension award
Henry English, director of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Small Farm Program, received a 2014 Regional Excellence in Extension award recently at the 127th annual Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities meeting in Orlando, Fla. English, one of five regional award winners, received the award for providing education and technical assistance to socially…
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Food Safety News
The Search for Alternatives to Antibiotics
Ask any doctor or veterinarian to rate the important medical discoveries of the past century, and antibiotics would surely be at or near the top of the list. In this century, too, antibiotics are expected to remain an essential tool for treating animal and human diseases. But the “miracle of antibiotics” is being threatened. There…
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National Hog Farmer
Universities Create Antibiotics Task Force
A “Task Force on Antibiotics Resistance in Production Agriculture” has been created by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. The task force will help advise the federal government on a research agenda and publicly disseminate information on the use of antibiotics in production agriculture.
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