Higher Education and Public Policy

UCF site for conflict of interest

This article from the the Independent Florida Alligator publication discusses the lobbying costs at University of Florida

Interesting statistics related to Community Colleges in America

Link to ways the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition advocates for individuals with ovarian cancer. One way is by increasing congressional awareness of ovarian cancer needs.

Link to nursing student's professional organization whose voting and decision making body is the House of Delegates. Once a resolution is adopted, it is considered for such things as publishing, community health projects, and state, legislative or educational actions.

Tools and information regarding immigration including student visas.

Department of Veteran Affairs website. Since my paper is on the new Post 9/11-GI Bill and higher education, this seemed like a good place to start.

Hi Matthew, this and all the other ones you posted are very helpful to me, thanks.

Resource for accreditation and higher education information.

Information regarding the impact of restrictions to the H1-b visas into the United States.

Again, another influential main website for the federal government.

Matthew, thanks for sharing this site, it is one that I have used as well. Gloria

Gloria, I figure it is always useful to post some major websites from time to time since they occasionally get overlooked.

A much more focused group on American veterans, and much more activist with an official legislative agenda available on their website. They were set up to counter some of the weight that WWII and Vietnam era veterans still have in the American Legion and VFW.

Probably the second most influential veterans' organization in the United States, they have a more activist public role than does the American Legion.

One of the largest and oldest American veterans' organizations, they help to keep issues for veterans in the mind of the public.

The overall agency behind the US military, both during active service and after active service. Perhaps one the largest active and powerful government agencies.

This is where I pulled the topic for the final paper - A good site to understand what federal policy issues interest the group responsible for handing out .edu domains.

Keith Wilson, Director, Education Service U.S. Department of Veterans Service

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:H.R.2642:

Feb 2, 2010 Conference