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Fall 2008 Journal: Going Clean and Green

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON—New England's colleges are increasingly "clean and green," according to a forum in the Fall 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE). The Fall 2008 issue, published this week, features a forum with articles examining today's efforts in New England higher education toward sustainability and pr...

Summer 2008 Journal: Digital Technologies

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON—Digital technology is transforming colleges, students and learning according to the Summer 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE). The Summer 2008 issue, published in July, features a "Going Digital" forum with articles examining today's "Digital Natives," the role of Web 2.0 technologies i...

Spring 2008 Journal: Trends & Indicators 2008

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. ; BOSTON—New England’s total college enrollment reached 887,000 in 2006, an increase of just one percent over 2005, according to the Spring 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE). Although the region beats the nation in high school graduation rates, the flow of students through the pipeline f...

Winter 2008 Journal: The Coming Demographic Crisis

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON – The new Winter 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education explores how New England colleges are expected to weather the impending demographic crisis, the controversy surrounding “ranksteering” – how colleges and universities use popular college rankings systems to influence students’ college cho...

Fall 2007 Journal: Public Investment Pays Off

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON—The new Fall 2007 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education features expert commentaries quantifying the return on public investment in higher education, exploring a central Massachusetts program in which college students support micro-enterprises in Worcester and Nicaragua and examining other key issues. ...

Summer 2007 Journal: Inaugural Issue Re-Branded at NEJHE

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. 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’s higher education heartland. “New England’s historical leadership in higher education—as well as the new chal...

Spring 2007 Journal: Trends & Indicators 2007

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON—New England’s total college enrollment topped 875,000 in 2005, according to the Spring 2007 issue of Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education. But nearly a quarter of New England public school students who begin ninth-grade will not graduate with their peers four years later, and 40 perc...

Winter 2007 Journal: Higher Ed and Washington

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON— The Winter 2007 issue of Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education features exclusive articles by U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) and others on the work of the national Commission on the Future of Higher Education. In September 2006, the ...

Fall 2006 Journal: World Ready?

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON—New England could help boost U.S. competitiveness and spread democracy by recruiting more foreign students to U.S. colleges and universities, expanding and diversifying study abroad among U.S. students and heightening international awareness among all citizens in part by harnessing the cultural resource of America’s g...

Summer 2006 Journal: Urban Scholars

Click the cover image to view and download this issue in PDF format. BOSTON— The Summer 2006 issue of Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education features key articles on college readiness, campus diversity efforts and the impact of student loan debt, as well as a look at graduation rates at New England’s community colleges. Now in its 20th year, Connection is the ...