Johnson
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Paula A. Johnson, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was named the 14th president of Wellesley College. Johnson is chief of the Division of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she founded the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gende...
McKenna
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Suffolk University President Margaret McKenna and Board of Trustees Chair Drew Meyer both announced they would resign after a season of increasing turmoil at the downtown Boston college, which has had three presidents since 2010. Meyer will step down in May, McKenna by the start of the 2017-18 academic year. McKenna wrote for NEBHE's journal of the subject of colle...
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Ball State University President Paul Ferguson resigned unexpectedly from the helm of the Indiana college. Ferguson was president of the University of Maine until he signed a five-year contract at Ball State in August 2014.Massachusetts College of Art and Design named University of North Carolina School of the Arts Provost David Nelson to be the 12th president of the B...
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The University of Maine System named University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac CEO and Dean John N. Short to be the new president of the University of Maine at Fort Kent, starting April 1. He succeeds Wilson Hess, who announced his retirement in May.
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth appointed its senior vice chancellor for strategic management, Gerry Kavanaugh,...
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Rhode Island's Council on Postsecondary Education appointed Meghan L. Hughes, former leader of Year Up Providence, to be the next president of the Community College of Rhode Island.
Tunxis Community College Dean of Academic Affairs Michael Rooke became president of Northwestern Connecticut Community College, succeeding Barbara Douglass who retired.
The Maine Center for Pub...
Carriuolo
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Rhode Island College President Nancy Carriuolo announced she will step down in May. Carriuolo has written NEJHE articles on the new role of college librarians as well as collaboration among states and between education and liberal arts.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design named music educator David P. Nelson, currently provost of the University of North...
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University of Maine at Machias (UMM) Interim President Joyce Hedlund resigned effective Friday, Dec. 11., to have heart bypass surgery. Hedlund had been hired out of retirement in early 2015 after leading Maine's Washington County Community College and Eastern Maine Community College. UMM Provost Stuart Swain will serve as acting president in Machias.
James F. Conneely, fo...
Studley
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Jamienne Studley, deputy under secretary and acting assistant secretary of the U.S. Education Department's Office of Postsecondary Education, will leave the department Dec 18. NEJHE has featured a Q&A with Studley as well as video of her sharing thoughts on higher education costs.
Lumina Foundation appointed Scott Jenkins, f0rmer program director at the ...
Torrecilha
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Westfield State University's Board of Trustees recommended Ramon S. Torrecilha, a professor of sociology and former provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University, Dominguez Hills, to be Westfield State's first Latino president. He would succeed Elizabeth Preston, the university’s vice president of academic affairs, who serv...
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage appointed former Husson University President and 2010 gubernatorial candidate William Beardsley as acting commissioner of the Maine Department of Education. Tom Desjardin, who has been acting education commissioner since April and is on medical leave, will return to his earlier role of deputy commissioner.
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disr...
