Comings and Goings … Yves Salomon-Fernández announced she will step down as president of Greenfield Community College on Aug. 15 and become senior vice president at Southern New Hampshire University… Read more »
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MassBay Community College VP and Frequent NEJHE Author Salomon-Fernandez Named Interim Prez
Salomon-Fernandez Comings and Goings … Massachusetts Bay Community College Vice President for Strategic Planning and Partnership Advancement Yves Salomon-Fernandez was named interim president of the college, succeeding John O’Donnell who…
For New England Higher Ed, Cybersecurity Signals New Threats … and New Opportunities
Some of the most common cybersecurity threats are malware, ransomware, phishing and spam. For their victims, including higher education institutions (HEIs), cybercrimes range from inconveniences to data breaches to grand… Read more »
College Completion and the Future of Work: Implications in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
College completion matters, especially from the perspective of equity. Who finishes, how long it takes them, how much they benefit economically and how their citizenship benefits local communities all matter…. Read more »
Emphasis on Math Stops Some from Full Participation in Education, Economy
In June 2015, we argued in a NEJHE article “Reducing Math Obstacles to Higher Education,” that intensified efforts to improve math education may make sense for many students, but for… Read more »
Harvard SPH Names First Black, Female Dean; Former Congressman to Lead Arms Control Group; Affordability Guru Moves East
Williams Comings and Goings … Epidemiologist Michelle A. Williams, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, will become the first black person to head a faculty at Harvard… Read more »
Reducing Math Obstacles to Higher Education
The last few months have brought changes in the leadership of public education in Massachusetts. The new secretary of education and chair of the Board of Higher Education both have… Read more »
How Obama’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan Would Affect One State
President Obama started off the year with a proposal to make a community college education as “universal” as high school by making the associate degree or first two years of… Read more »
Cyber-Gap
Within the information technology sector, cybersecurity is considered its own supersector. As information becomes increasingly digitized and a growing array of transactions can be completed in the cloud, people,… Read more »
View the Middle-Skills Gap Through a Competitiveness Lens
It’s not every day that one finds Harvard Business School (HBS) advocating for community and technical colleges. Adding its own voice to an increasingly loud refrain on the country’s “middle-skills”… Read more »