An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda.
Fox’s vision allowed UCSD to become one of the greenest campuses in the nation. Source: UC San Diego http://mafox.ucsd.edu/bio/
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Marye Anne Fox, UC San Diego’s first woman chancellor, died Sunday at age 73, UCSD announced today.
Fox was UCSD’s seventh chancellor and led the university “during a historic era of extraordinary campus growth and through unprecedented financial challenges,” Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said in a statement.
Under her leadership, UCSD completed a billion-dollar capital campaign, celebrated its 50th anniversary and expanded the campus to accommodate student growth and a billion-dollar research enterprise.
The Strategic Competition Act of
2021,
1 approved by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee on April 21, 2021, signals continued bipartisan consensus
to orient U.S. policy towards aggressive action to counter
China. Given the broad bipartisan support in
Washington to address China s malign activities, the bill will
likely pass the Senate and House of Representatives. This bill is a
useful barometer of congressional sentiment towards China and may
guide the Biden administration s future China-related actions.
The bill recognizes that U.S. ability to effectively compete with
China requires domestic support for competitive industries and
engagement with international partners to counter Chinese influence
in international institutions and on international standards. The
Colleges Arenât Protecting Students. States Should Make Them.
In this May 20, 2020, file photo, a runner passes through an arch on the campus of Boston University, in Boston.
Steven Senne / AP
The month I committed to attending Boston University, I remember reading an anonymous Facebook post about a BU student whoâd gone to a party with her friends, gotten drunk and was assaulted by a classmate â a man sheâd have to come in contact with for the rest of the semester unless she dropped the class and switched friend groups. She spoke out about her experience but faced backlash from her peers and from the university.
Barron discusses access and affordability strategies to support students
Scholarships, academic advising, food security, new housing grants and more are topics of focus during president’s presentation to Board of Trustees
Old Main s bell tower.
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Barron discusses access and affordability strategies to support students
May 07, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State is committed to providing students with an accessible and affordable high-quality education, and the University is employing a range of creative strategies to help manage educational costs and meet students’ needs, according to Penn State President Eric Barron.
Along with discussing traditional mechanisms for lowering costs in a presentation to the Board of Trustees at its Friday (May 7) hybrid meeting, Barron highlighted non-traditional strategies from addressing housing and food insecurity to building financial literacy the University is using to help make a Penn State education more