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"The research and opportunities provided by U.S. colleges and universities drive our nation’s economy, prepare our graduates for the best jobs, and help keep our nation safe," writes Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan.
University of Michigan | Articles & Op-EdsThe Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 significantly increased and accelerated the transfer of university discoveries to the marketplace. The products and processes that emerge from university technology transfer benefit the public in a number of ways.
Technology TransferAssociations Issue Statement on FTC Report on Patent Assertion Entities; Administration Issues Final Teacher Preparation Regulations; AAAS Releases Dashboard on Federal R&D Budgets; AAU and APLU Lend Support to White House Active Learning Day
NewslettersEssential Questions & Data Sources for Continuous Improvement of Undergraduate STEM Teaching and Learning is intended to be a useful resource for those who work together to help foster improvement of undergraduate STEM education.
By reflecting on these key questions, institutions can engage in discussions about undergraduate education; aggregate individual and program-level data to obtain an institutional portrait; and identify cross-cutting teaching and learning issues.
Strong measures and indicators provide a foundation to advance conversations among faculty members and institutional leaders, and to inform decision-making about reforms in undergraduate STEM education.
Institutions possess a wealth of data on students and their performance that may be used to help understand and improve teaching and learning.
This letter is in response to the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) January 26, 2016 Request for Information (RFI), asking for comments on regulations that should be modified, expanded, streamlined, or repealed to increase flexibility and reduce burden.
Higher Education Regulation | Reducing Regulatory Burden | LettersWe write in support of H. J. Res. 58, a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to block implementation of an October 2016 rule related to teacher preparation programs.
LettersThe Grant Reform and New Transparency (GRANT) Act aims to provide greater transparency to federal grant programs as a means of increasing accountability. The bill requires the creation of new government-wide public website on which information on all federal grants would be posted. Under current…
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