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...American universities have not kept up with the challenge of rapidly dia... reminiscent of the original concept of the land grant colleges in the United States is needed, whi...
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The choice of Magrath, a senior adviser to the College Board, president emeritus of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and former president of four public universities, brought relief to the university community.
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College and university administrators must be accountable for fostering improved performance as well as acquiring additional resources (p. 21). * The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges has written a draft paper with input from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities advocating that "public universities and the associations that represent them should work together to develop a voluntary accountability system that would allow prospective students, their parents, and policy makers to compare similar institutions...." The draft paper ...calls for consensus on a "meaningful but manageabh" set of measures that would include student surveys, measures of student harning, and "consumer data" on net costs, transfer and graduation rates, and pos...
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... for the endowment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanical ... Food Research Initiative for competitive grants for fundamental and applied research, extension, a... agricultural libraries of colleges, universities, USDA, and their closely allied information gather...(xxxv) Administer, in cooperation with land-grant colleges and universities where applicable, ...
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The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges' members, who are the primary recipients of USDA extramural grants, however, have a more ambitious proposal to establish CREATE-21 ("Creating Research, Extension, and Teaching Excellence for the 21st Century") that would establish NIFA as well as consolidate all USDA intramural and extramural research within ft. Senator Harkin, as well as the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, have expressed concerns over CREATE-21's combination of intramural and extramural research into one agency.
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Dozens of New Mexicans braved a brief snow shower at the Capitol on Monday to rally support for a proposal they believe would help raise school test scores, lower the dropout rate and curb teen pregnancy. The solution is simple, advocates say: Include early-childhood programs such as pre-kindergarten and home visits for developmentally delayed children in the annual payout to public schools, colleges and universities from the state's more than $10 billion Land Grant Permanent Fund.
