BOSTON—New England colleges and universities are wrestling with financial challenges, old and new, against the backdrop of a deep recession, according to a Forum in the new Winter 2009 edition of The New England Journal of Higher Education. The Winter 2009 issue’s Forum on higher education finance includes the following articles:
Current Funds • State Higher Ed...
BOSTON–The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) has published the 2009 edition of its Annual Directory of New England Colleges & Universities.The directory is a must-have resource for guidance professionals, students and parents as well as education professionals, elected officials and business people seeking current and reliable information on higher education in New England.
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BOSTON—New England's population continues to grow more slowly than the rest of the United States and though the region outperforms the nation on most indicators of "college readiness," New England's college costs still take a bigger bite out of family incomes than those in other regions, according to data in the Spring 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE).
The Spr...
BOSTON—The Summer 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education features a Forum on President Obama's goal to make the U.S. the world leader in college degree attainment as well as commentaries exploring policy journalism in the new media age.Authors in this Forum include U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Capitol Hill education expert Terry Hartle; Muriel Howard, the first...
BOSTON—President Obama's strategy to increase degree attainment will require increased graduation by community college students, many of whom have disabilities, according to a new study by Northeastern University economists Neeta P. Fogg and Paul E. Harrington to be published in the Fall 2009 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education.Fogg and Harrington's article Paternalism to Se...
Special Online Feature: Click here to download Accountability: Are Doctoral Programs in Education Practicing What They Preach? by Martha McCann Rose and Cynthia V. L. Ward in PDF format. (To view PDF files, you may require Adobe Reader.)BOSTON—New England could help boost U.S. competitiveness and spread democracy by recruiting more foreign students to U.S. colleges and universities, expandin...
Special Online Feature: Click here to download Engineering Education Must Get Real by Bernard M. Gordon in PDF format. (To view PDF files, you may require Adobe Reader.)
BOSTON—The New England Board of Higher Education has unveiled The New England Journal Of Higher Education, the interstate board’s “re-branded” quarterly journal of commentary and analysis from America&rsqu...
May 14, 2007BOSTON—Nearly 160 New England public and independent colleges and universities were still considering additional freshman and/or transfer applications for fall 2007 as of the traditional May 1 college admissions deadline, according to a survey released today by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE).
“Many opportunities remain for New England students who have y...
March 16, 2007
BOSTON, MA—The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) was awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund Project PHOTON PBL.
The grant is the fourth in a series of NSF curriculum and professional development grants awarded to NEBHE that strengthen photonics curriculum in secondary schools and community colleges in New England. ...
January 24, 2007For more information, contact:
Charlotte Stratton, 617.357.9620, x125BOSTON — Southern New Hampshire University's 25-year-old School of Community Economic Development and two Granite State education luminaries, Ingrid Lemaire of Granite State Management and Resources, and Thomas More College of Liberal Arts founder Peter V. Sampo, have won the New England Board of Higher Edu...