2013 Annual Meeting Just Days Away

The 126th APLU Annual Meeting officially starts this Sunday. This year's Annual Meeting will be the largest ever held in Washington, DC with more than 1,250 leaders from public higher education scheduled to attend. The APLU Annual Meeting has become the premier event for public university leaders to share opinions on emerging topics, gain valuable professional development experience, and meet colleagues from across the nation. With the myriad challenges facing public higher education, it has never been more important for university officials to come together and discuss strategies for the future.

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Are You Joining Us in Washington this Weekend?

There is still time to register for the 126th APLU Annual Meeting. Join more than 1,000 leaders from public higher education at the 126th APLU Annual Meeting November 10-12, 2013 in Washington, DC. The APLU Annual Meeting has become the premier event for public university leaders to share opinions on emerging topics, gain valuable professional development experience, and meet colleagues from across the nation. With the myriad challenges facing public higher education, it has never been more important for university officials to come together and discuss strategies for the future.

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VIDEO: Preview of Annual Meeting session on Health of a Nation: An Expanding Role for Universities

Shari Garmise, vice president in the Office of Urban Initiatives previews an upcoming commission session titled, "The Health of a Nation: An Expanding Role for Universities. For more information on the APLU Annual Meeting, visit www.aplu.org/annualmeeting

VIDEO: Preview of APLU's Annual Meeting Session on Fisher v. Texas

In this video, John Michael Lee, vice president for the Office of Access and Success at APLU, discusses the upcoming Commission on Access, Diversity and Excellence plenary session: Fisher v. Texas and the Future of Diversity in Higher Education.  The session will offer analysis and insights on the case and what's next for the higher education community.

For more information on the APLU annual meeting, visit www.aplu.org/annualmeeting

Oregon State Says U.S. Government Shutdown is Costing them Millions

Just how costly are the effects of the U.S. Government shutdown on Oregon State University? $600,000 per day.

The university, which partners with a number of federal agencies, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and Defense as well as the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and NASA, told the Corvallis Gazette-Times that each day the government stays shut, it costs the university more than half a million dollars in lost research funding.

Since the shutdown began Tuesday, “we’ve already spent $2.4 million on being idled,” Rick Spinrad, OSU’s vice-president for research, said Friday. OSU is engaged in government-funded research involving everything from forestry to fisheries health, climate change and homeland security. Last year, the university received $154 million from the federal government for research. “We get funding from probably about a dozen agencies and bureaus; every one of them is inactive (now). We have 1,000 research projects, and two-thirds of them are federally funded.”

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