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Radio Higher Ed Posts Podcast on Direct Loan Servicers

Through its partnership with RadioHigherEd.com, NEJHE is pleased to present  the release of Federal Student Loan Servicing: A Podcast Primer, the second in a series of podcasts produced in partnership with the Postsecondary National Policy Institute, the leading source of professional development for federal policymakers working on higher education issues. Federal Student Loan Servicing...

New Hampshire College and University Council’s Horgan to Retire Next June

Horgan Comings and Goings ... Thomas R. Horgan announced he will leave his post as president and CEO of the New Hampshire College & University Council, effective June 2017. A NEBHE delegate since 2006, Horgan has played a key role advancing New England collaborations, including work on NEBHE's Higher Education Innovation Challenge. Also see Labor Day and Some Crumbs from the NEJHE Beat. Qui...

Does Khan Academy Help Community College Students Destined for Noncredit Developmental Math?

Too many students enter college without being ready, especially in math. Many of them are placed in a developmental noncredit course. Fully 68% of community college students and 40% of students at four-year public institutions were required to take one or more developmental education courses (sometimes called “remedial” courses) before enrolling in credit-bearing college-level courses...

Replacing a Lost Card

Comings and Goings ... Kim Mooney, the provost and vice president for academic affairs of Franklin Pierce University, was named the sixth president of the university and the first alumna and first woman to lead the institution. She succeeds Andrew Card, the former chief of staff to U.S. President George W. Bush, who is stepping down at Franklin Pierce after less than two years as president. Ri...

Higher Ed’s Economic Impact: People Power

Higher education institutions are major employers, purchasers of goods and services, managers of real estate, and attractors of external investment. In short, they are huge drivers of the New England economy. But research on how higher education contributes to regional economies is often narrowly focused or too technical; a broader conversation on attracting new resources and improving the product...

Poet Laureate to be Interim Prez at MECA; Changing Watch at Naval War College

Kestenbaum Comings and Goings ... Maine’s poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum, the former director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, was named interim president of the Maine College of Art, succeeding Don Tuski, who left the Portland, Maine college after six years in July to become president at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley became t...

Bertolino Moves from Lyndon State to SCSU; Fairfield U May Appoint Its First Non-Jesuit Prez; Unity Going the Distance

Bertolino Comings and Goings ... The Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education selected Lyndon State College President Joe Bertolino to be the 12th president of Southern Connecticut State University. A NEBHE delegate, Bertolino will succeed Mary Papazian who resigned as of July 1. The Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, president of Fairfield University since 2004, will leave the university for an as...

Rice Named Interim Head of UMPI; Antioch Presidents Let Go as System “Deeply” Consolidates

Rice Comings and Goings ... University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) Provost Raymond J. Rice was appointed interim president of UMPI, where he will remain as provost. The appointment follows the announcement that outgoing President Linda Schott was chosen to lead Southern Oregon University. New Hampshire's Keene Sentinel newspaper reported that the Antioch University system "terminated the re...

Schott to Leave UMPI; Vt Smiths Change Roles

SchottComings and Goings ...University of Maine at Presque Isle President Linda Schott accepted an offer to serve as president of Southern Oregon University. Schott began her service in UMPI in 2012. NEBHE recognized UMPI’s achievements in personalized education with its 2016 Maine State Merit Award.Vermont Technical College President Dan Smith accepted the job of president and CEO of t...

NAICU’s Flanagan Speaks on Student Unit Records Debate in Radio Higher Ed Podcast

Through its partnership with RadioHigherEd.com, NEJHE is pleased to provide a conversation about the debate over federal unit records system in higher education with Sarah Flanagan, vice president for government relations & policy development with the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). Radio Higher Ed’s entire podcast collection can be accessed b...