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¿Habla Español? Nuestras Páginas Web de Tuition Break Ahora Presentan Información en Español!

Speak Spanish? Our Tuition Break web pages now have information in Spanish! NEBHE's Tuition Break, the Regional Student Program (RSP) has been helping New England students and families access academic programs out of state at reduced tuition for more than 60 years. In recognition of the region's growing Hispanic population and advice that those families could benefit from accessing college a...

SNHU Triggers Chemist Reaction

Comings and Goings ... Chemist and longtime MIT Vice President Kirk Kolenbrander announced he will leave MIT in March to join Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), where he will lead development of SNHU’s College of Engineering, Technology and Aeronautics. Tufts University tapped Northeastern University College of Engineering dean Nadine Aubry to be its next provost and senior vice...

Boston Science Museum Leader to Head Roger Williams University

Comings and Goings ... Roger Williams University named former Tufts University professor and director of Boston’s Museum of Science Ioannis Miaoulis as its new president, succeeding Donald J. Farish, who died in July 2018. UMass Dartmouth appointed Rhode Island College CFO David A. Gingerella to be its vice chancellor of administration and finance. Bunker Hill Community College appo...

Data Connection: Languages, Moods and Preferences

Change in U.S. college enrollments in languages other than English from fall 2013 to fall 2016: -9.2% Modern Language Association Number of foreign-language programs that colleges closed during that period: 651 Modern Language Association Rank of American Sign Language among most popular "foreign-language" majors for bachelor's-degree recipients: 7th Chronicle of Higher Education analysis of...

UConn Taps New Prez, UVM Discloses “Sole Finalist”

Comings and Goings ... The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees appointed University of Virginia Provost and Executive Vice President Thomas C. Katsouleas to be UConn’s 16th president, effective Aug. 1. The University of Vermont announced Suresh Garimella, executive vice president for research and partnerships at Purdue University in Indiana, as the “sole finalist” to succ...

Connecticut’s Levinson Retiring; Conway Leaving UMaine Law for Penn State; New Leader at All4Ed

Comings and Goings ... The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system announced that David Levinson will retire from his positions as president of Norwalk Community College and vice president of community colleges for the system on June 30. He will serve as Presidential Fellow from July 1 to June 30, 2020. NEBHE honored Levinson's accomplishments with a 2018 Excellence Award. ...

Your Friends on the Hill

DC Shuttle ... New Democratic Members of House Education Committee Announced. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that Democrats selected 14 new members of the House Committee on Education and Labor. The new members are Josh Harder (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Susie Lee (D-NV), Andy Levin (D-MI), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Kim ...

MIT, Brown U Officials Tapped to Lead Boston Fed Board

Comings and Goings ... Phillip L. Clay, professor emeritus of city planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston for 2019, and Brown University President  Christina Hull Paxson became deputy chair. The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education named Edward Lambert Jr., former Fall River, Mass., mayor and vice chancellor f...

Newly Elected Governors Name Key Advisors

Comings and Goings ... Newly elected Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont nominated state Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, current co-chair of the Legislature’s Education Committee and NEBHE delegate, to lead the state Office of Early Childhood. Lamont also nominated state Sen. Tim Larson, executive director of Tweed New Haven-Regional Airport, to lead the state Office of Higher Education, which adm...

In Maine, Page to Turn and a New Commish

Comings and Goings ... University of Maine System Chancellor James Page announced he plans to retire from the post at the end of the current academic year in 2019, seven years after becoming the first Maine native and university system alumnus to lead the system. As chancellor, he has led investment in academic programs to meet the state’s need for workers in specific fields such as nurs...