Geochemist and former NASA official Laurie Leshin was named the first woman president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, effective July 1. She succeeds Dennis D. Berkey, who had been president for nine years until retiring in May.
The national public policy group Demos promoted its vice president of policy and outreach, Heather McGhee, to be its next president, effective March 10. She will suc...
NEBHE’s Trends & Indicators features an updated section on Demography.
• Nearly 70% of New England residents in 2010 were born in the region, down from a peak of 77% in 1950. By 2010, nearly 17% of New England’s population was born elsewhere in the U.S. People born in foreign countries accounted for the remaining 14% of total population.
• Connecticut ranked first natio...
The New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Problem Based Learning (PBL) Projects team is pleased to announce the launch of a new website combining the Advanced Manufacturing PBL, STEM PBL, and PHOTON PBL projects with their industry-based case studies called Challenges into one comprehensive website.
The Advanced Manufacturing PBL, STEM PBL and PHOTON PBL projects remain accessible via NE...
Harkin releases 2014 priorities. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), the retiring chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, told the Washington Post that his New Year's resolutions were his minimum wage and early education bills.
Enrollment report. The U.S. Department of Education released a report on enrollment and graduation rates in higher education institutions in the fall o...
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT) appointed Anthony Benoit to serve as the 12th president in the institution’s 106-year history. Benoit was tapped as interim president of the Boston institution upon the death of President George Chryssis in May 2013. Before joining BFIT, Benoit was director for the technology department and professor of environmental technology at Three Rivers...
Every year since the mid-1990s, Governing magazine has offered speculation on the top legislative issues facing the states.
Higher education rarely makes the list, and most Governing higher ed coverage of late has focused on state budget cuts. But 2014 may be different. The magazine cites a survey by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities finding that 37 states increased FY 2...
The new year brings new tests for students who seek an alternative to earning a traditional high school diploma. And the six New England states are split on how to proceed.
The old GED (general equivalency diploma) test was originally developed in 1942 and used universally until it expired at the end of the 2013. In its place is the 2014 GED, a new online-only version developed by the GED Te...
Henry Bourgeois announced his retirement as president and CEO of the Alfond Scholarship Foundation, where he has worked for the past six years after leading the Maine Development Foundation and the Maine Compact for Higher Education. Colleen Quint, former founding director of the Mitchell Institute, will succeed him as head of the foundation, beginning Jan. 6.
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The Westfield State University B...
Health and Human Services announces early learning grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that six states, including Vermont, would be awarded Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grants. Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will also receive a portion of the $280 million in grant awards. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said his state's $37 milli...
Budget deal changes loan-collection policies. Two changes involving the collection of federal student loan debt would contribute about $5 billion in savings to the broad budget deal announced last week. The compromise worked out by Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would reduce the compensation that companies receive for rehabilitating defaulted student loans made under a now-defu...
NEBHE’s Trends & Indicators features an updated section on Demography.
• Nearly 70% of New England residents in 2010 were born in the region, down from a peak of 77% in 1950. By 2010, nearly 17% of New England’s population was born elsewhere in the U.S. People born in foreign countries accounted for the remaining 14% of total population.
• Connecticut ranked first natio... 
The New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE) Problem Based Learning (PBL) Projects team is pleased to announce the launch of a new website combining the Advanced Manufacturing PBL, STEM PBL, and PHOTON PBL projects with their industry-based case studies called Challenges into one comprehensive website.
The Advanced Manufacturing PBL, STEM PBL and PHOTON PBL projects remain accessible via NE... 
Harkin releases 2014 priorities. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), the retiring chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, told the Washington Post that his New Year's resolutions were his minimum wage and early education bills.
Enrollment report. The U.S. Department of Education released a report on enrollment and graduation rates in higher education institutions in the fall o...