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Castleton University President Dave Wolk announced that he will leave his post at the end of this year. A Rutland, Vt. native, Wolk served as a school principal, superintendent, Vermont’s commissioner of education, Vermont state senator and a NEBHE delegate. He wrote recently for NEJHE about Castleton's polling center.
Megan Carpenter, founder and co-directo...
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The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees tapped Becker College President Robert E. Johnson to be chancellor of UMass Dartmouth, succeeding Peyton Randolph Helm, who served as interim chancellor after the departure of Chancellor Divina Grossman. In a letter to Becker faculty and staff, Johnson said Nancy Crimmin, Becker's senior vice president and chie...
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The University of New England named Drexel University Executive Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College James Herbert to be the Biddeford, Maine-based university's next president, effective July 1. He will succeed Danielle Ripich, who has led the university for 11 years.
Saint Anselm College appointed Allegheny College Associate Provost for Diversity a...
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Dorsey Kendrick announced she plans to retire June 30 as president of Gateway Community College, a post she has held since 1999. She boosted enrollment by 100% in her first eight years and presided over Gateway's consolidation of two campuses into a new $198 million, 3.7-acre central location in downtown New Haven in 2012.
Charles Wall announced he will reti...
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu tapped one-term state Rep. Frank Edelblut, a Wilton businessman who homeschooled his seven children, to be the state's education commissioner.
Partners In Health CEO Gary L. Gottlieb, M.D., was named chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. (NEJHE has featured Gottlieb's thoughts drawing parallels between healthcare and higher ed.) ...
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Michael Meotti, former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Higher Education and executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, was appointed executive director of the Washington Student Achievement Council, which coordinates the state’s higher education system with workforce and edu...
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The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education tapped Christina Royal, the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota, to be the first woman president of Holyoke Community College. She will succeed William Messner, who retired in August after 12 years as the Massachusetts community college’s president.
The Bristol Commu...
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Jobs for the Future (JFF) named Maria K. Flynn to be its president and CEO, effective Dec. 15, 2016. Flynn joined JFF nine years ago, serving as vice president of JFF's Building Economic Opportunity Group, and then senior vice president. She has spearheaded JFF’s economic mobility and equity work. She was a speaker at NEBHE's recent conference, Talent 4.0: How ...
University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Chancellor Todd J. Leach was named the next chair of the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) at the board's annual fall meeting.
Leach is the seventh chancellor of USNH, New Hampshire's four-year public higher education system comprising the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Keene State College and Granite State C...
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Timothy Connelly, most recently a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, became executive director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The collaborative is known as the Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation, and oversees the Massachusetts Broadband Institute, electronic health initiatives and the John Adams Innovation Institute.
Jon Carson was appointed CEO of ...
