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Last July, the Oregon Legislature made national headlines when it unanimously passed a bill to develop a pilot project that would overhaul the way college students finance their education at the state’s public institutions. The proposal, known as “Pay It Forward, Pay It Back,” has quickly gained the attention of policymakers looking for ways to save colle...
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New England's public education and higher education governance structures have always varied. Some states have designated state agencies focused on higher education; others have an office within a state department of education. The executives at the top—commissioners of higher education, chancellors of state postsecondary systems or directors of state higher educatio...
Massachusetts and Connecticut lead America in college-educated or “innovation economy” workers, according to the latest annual index of "The Massachusetts Innovation Economy, published by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Among “areas for Massachusetts to focus on,” however, the report cites disparities in public funding for education, especially higher education...
Goal is to redesign state financial aid programs to meet national and state college enrollment and degree-attainment targets, better align state, federal and institutional student aid strategies ...
NEBHE was awarded a $404,400 grant from Lumina Foundation to help the New England states redesign and align their student financial aid programs.
The purpose of the grant is to provide technica...
Symposium on college ratings program reveals partially developed structure. The Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics held a symposium of technical experts in the groups they're consulting as they build the administration's proposed college rating system. While the structure of the rating system is not fully developed, the advisors made clear that the administration was m...
It is fairly well-documented that most underprivileged students see any early interest they had in STEM fields vanish in high school due to lack of school resources and inattention or exclusion. It's certainly true of environmental sciences.
But a new grant aims to reverse that. College of the Atlantic (COA) was awarded $134,000 from the Brooke Astor One-Year Fund for New York City Education to w...
A private college in Massachusetts and a public one in New Hampshire are teaming up to pursue their shared interests in serving working adult students.
Cambridge College will expand online offerings through a new partnership with Granite State College.
Focused on a diverse population of adult learners, Cambridge already operates three Massachusetts-based campuses and five additional sites across...
Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC) has been powering up its innovative Energy Services and Technology (EST) program, designed to prepare students for employment in the growing field of sustainable energy.
EST integrates instruction in the installation and design of high-efficiency and renewable plumbing, heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems and prepares students to ...
Community college students who transferred to for-profits in the early to mid-2000s earned roughly 7% less over the next decade than those who transferred to public or private nonprofit institutions, according to a study by the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment housed at the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University Teachers College.
The authors o...
College endowments grew by nearly 12% in 2013, according to an annual survey of 835 institutions by Commonfund and the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
The largest U.S. endowments are Harvard's at $32 billion and Yale's at $20 billion. The nation's top two liberal arts college endowments are at Williams and Amherst colleges.
Nationally, the endowments have reboun...
State Capital Notes ...
Last July, the Oregon Legislature made national headlines when it unanimously passed a bill to develop a pilot project that would overhaul the way college students finance their education at the state’s public institutions. The proposal, known as “Pay It Forward, Pay It Back,” has quickly gained the attention of policymakers looking for ways to save colle... 
Massachusetts and Connecticut lead America in college-educated or “innovation economy” workers, according to the latest annual index of "The Massachusetts Innovation Economy, published by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.
Among “areas for Massachusetts to focus on,” however, the report cites disparities in public funding for education, especially higher education... 
Goal is to redesign state financial aid programs to meet national and state college enrollment and degree-attainment targets, better align state, federal and institutional student aid strategies ...
NEBHE was awarded a $404,400 grant from Lumina Foundation to help the New England states redesign and align their student financial aid programs.
The purpose of the grant is to provide technica... 
Symposium on college ratings program reveals partially developed structure. The Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics held a symposium of technical experts in the groups they're consulting as they build the administration's proposed college rating system. While the structure of the rating system is not fully developed, the advisors made clear that the administration was m...