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Maine Changes

Comings and Goings ... University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page announced that University of Southern Maine President Theo Kalikow will leave that post on July 18 and join the system office as president emerita and acting vice chancellor. In that position, she will undertake a systemwide community engagement initiative through June 30, 2015, when her employment contract ends. The Main...

Former NEBHE Chair Cowan to Leave Middlesex CC; UMaine Names First Woman Prez; RI Snags Commish from Louisiana

Carole Cowan Comings and Goings ... Middlesex Community College President Carole Cowan said she will retire during the upcoming academic year. Cowan joined the college in 1976 as a professor in the business department and, in 1990, was chosen to become MCC's third president. Cowan chaired NEBHE from 2002 to 2004. University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page selected Susan J. Hunter to b...

Excellence 2015!

Now accepting nominations ... The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) is now seeking nominations for our twelfth annual New England Higher Education Excellence Awards. Five regional awards and six state merit awards will be presented to the recipients on the evening of Friday, March 13, 2015 in Boston. Nominees should be individuals, programs or organizations i...

New Prez at NHTI, Concord’s Community College; Goodman to Head Center for Policy Analysis

Susan Dunton Comings and Goings ... The Community College System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees appointed Susan Dunton to be the next president of NHTI, Concord’s Community College. Dunton's experience in college administration, academic affairs and student services spans three decades at institutions including Lesley College, the Harvard Divinity School and Fisher College. The Univer...

Donovan Leaving VSC; UMaine Prez to Ball State

Comings and Goings ... Vermont State Colleges (VSC) Chancellor Tim Donovan announced he will step down on Dec. 31, six months before the end of his contract. He served as chancellor for five years and previously led the Community College of Vermont. Separately, the VSC  board elected Martha O'Connor of Brattleboro to succeed Gary Moore as its chair. UMaine President Paul Ferguson announced ...

Ms. Gross Goes Back to Washington

Comings and Goings ... Southern Vermont College (SVC) President Karen Gross announced that she will step down in October after eight years as president of the Bennington, Vt. college, to return to Washington, D.C., where she spent 2012 working at the U.S. Department of Education. (Gross said she was not certain the department would be her specific return target.) A new SVC president is expected t...

Lawmakers, Authors, Entrepreneurs Among Newly Announced Commencement Speakers

Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns Jane Altes, former vice president for academic affairs and interim president of Empire State College, and Daniel B. Ginsberg, former assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, will address Southern Vermont College's 87th Commencement on Saturday, May 10. Homebuilder and founder of C&S (College Student) Builders ...

Mills Leaving Bowdoin

Comings and Goings ... Bowdoin College President Barry Mills announced he will resign in June 2015. The Rev. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., senior vice president for academic affairs at Fairfield University, was selected to be president of the University of San Francisco, succeeding the Rev. Stephen A. Privett, S.J. Rutgers University-Camden official Andrew Seligsohn was named the next president of ...

Your Chance to Listen in on the NSA … and Other Commencements

Former NSA Director Keith Alexander. General Electric aviation executive Mike Sims will address graduates at Wentworth Institute of Technology on Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. on the main quadrangle. Western Connecticut Health Network President and CEO John Murphy M.D. will address thegraduate commencement at Western Connecticut State University on Friday, May 9 in the Stephen Feldman Arena.Educ...

Comings and Goings: Trinity Names a First; Gonzales to GSC; Smith to Vt Tech; Oblinger Leaving Educause

Trinity College named Tufts University Dean Joanne Berger-Sweeney to be its 22nd president ... and the first African-American and first woman to hold the post.  **** The University System of New Hampshire selected Roxanne Gonzales, an academic dean and professor at Regis University in Denver, to be the next president of Granite State College. Gonzales served as a director of Prior Learning As...