Posts Categorized: News

Among Comings & Goings, Moore to Leave Lyndon State, Staples to Head NEASC

Lyndon State College President Carol A. Moore announced her retirement from the college, effective July 1, after 13 yeas in charge of the Lyndonville, Vt. college. A NEBHE delegate since 2002, Moore recently wrote for NEJHE about college retention.**** Former Connecticut state Rep. Cameron Staples, who was House chair of the Education Committee and a longtime NEBHE delegate, was chosen as the nex...

Big Oil CEO and Carbon Opponent to Each Address WPI Grads After Speaker Dustup; Gov. Malloy to Deliver Keynotes in Connecticut

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's invitation to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to deliver this year’s commencement address on May 14, sparked protests from WPI’s Students for a Just and Stable Future. The students noted that the world’s largest oil company and a major funder of climate deniers has given more than $1.3 million to the school. After WPI President Dennis Berkey's threa...

URI Hooks $11.5 Million to Boost Sustainable Fishing in Senegal

The Coastal Resources Center and the Fisheries Center at the University of Rhode Island were awarded a five-year, $11.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to help the sub-Saharan African country of Senegal promote sustainable fishing. Fishing has been an economic safety net in Senegal, which has created competing interests familiar in some parts of New England. Far...

Vt. Gov. Shumlin to Address Green Mountain College Grads … and More Commencement News

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin will deliver the commencement address at Green Mountain College's 174th graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m. on the college's Griswold Library lawn. Boston TV  journalist  Liz Walker will deliver the commencement address at Regis College on Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m. in the Tower Gardens. Walmart Foundation President Margaret A. McKenna will...

The Edvolution Continues: Western NE is Latest College to Graduate to University

Western New England College of Springfield, Mass., was awarded "university" status by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and will change its name to Western New England University on July 1, 2011. Why the name change? Western New England will develop a Ph.D. program in Engineering Management to join its existing Ph.D. in Behavior Analysis. But as we noted in Higher E(d)volution: Six Ma...

Worcester State U Taps Westfield State Exec as Prez; Former Boston Fed Chief to Head Simmons Biz School

Worcester State University trustees voted to recommend Barry Maloney be the university's next president, starting July 1. Maloney, currently vice president for student affairs at Westfield State University, will succeed Janelle Ashley, who will step down at the end of this academic year after 13 years on the job in Worcester. **** Cathy E. Minehan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank o...

More Caps and Gowns: NE College Commencement Season Shifting to High Gear

  Premier of Quebec Jean Charest will keynote Champlain College's 133nd commencement on Saturday, May 7, at 10 a.m. in the college's Memorial Auditorium. Former Vt. Gov. Jim Douglas will speak on behalf of  honorary degree recipients during the ceremony. Author and sustainable agriculture activist Gary Paul Nabhan will deliver the commencement address at Maine's Unity College on Saturd...

Drugstore Giant Writes $10k Prescription for Diversity at Saint Joseph Pharm School

The Saint Joseph College School of Pharmacy was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Walgreens Diversity Scholarship fund to develop programs to promote diversity at the school. Offering a unique three calendar-year doctorate program in pharmacy, the school will welcome its inaugural class this fall in Hartford. It will mark the West Hartford-based Saint Joseph's first campus extension into Connectic...

Not Off That Easy: Government Responds to University Inaction on Sexual Assaults

Yale is no stranger to Title IX controversies. In 1976, Women’s Crew accused the university of unequally funding its athletic team. One year later, a Title IX suit was brought against the university after four female undergraduates and one male assistant professor alleged that quid pro quo sexual harassment by male professors prohibited women from receiving access to the same quality educati...

UMaine Center Developing Wood Composites to Withstand Earthquakes, Bridges You Can Carry in Duffel Bags

The University of Maine's state-of-the-art Advanced Structures and Composites Center (AEWC) was awarded the Charles Pankow Award for Innovation by the American Society for Civil Engineering for its whimsically titled "Bridge-in-a-Backpack" technology. The technology allows builders to pack in duffel bags materials used to build arches for bridge spans and carry them to a construction site. They ca...