Johnson
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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...
Meotti
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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...
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 ...
Kestenbaum
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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
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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
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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...
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...
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Nancy L. Zimpher, chancellor of the State University of New York system, will resign on June 30, 2017, after seven years leading the nation's largest comprehensive system of higher education. Zimpher forged notable cross-sector partnerships in areas ranging from early college high schools to transfer and research commercialization. She keynoted NEBHE's October 2015 confer...
