The U.S. economy added 882,000 jobs in the first six months of 2010, and 593,000 of them were in the private sector, according to the "Economic Snapshot" for July 2010 authored by Christian Weller, senior fellow at the D.C.-based Center for American Progress and associate professor of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston.The report attributes some of the private job growt...
The New Hampshire Forum on the Future will feature Lew Feldstein, retiring president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and Charles Arlinghaus, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, discussing priorities and direction for the state of New Hampshire, on Wednesday, Aug. 4, at 8 a.m., in The Great Hall at the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford, NH. The forum is an allianc...
A University of Rhode Island biotechnology professor was awarded a $212,000 grant to hire summer research fellows for vaccine studies. The grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allows 14 students and recent graduates from URI, Brown University, Bates College and the University of Connecticut to conduct research on vaccines against diseases ranging from Hepatitis C to Lyme d...
The late Bob Woodbury graced the pages of NEJHE a few years ago when the journal was called Connection with a thoughtful scolding of U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings. The popular news magazine's college rankings, Bob noted, encourage perverse practices by rewarding colleges for generating too many applications, rejecting high percentages of them, and ultimately making few rea...
NEBHE will present two webinars demonstrating new Student Flow Degree Attainment Projection Models that could help the states develop plans for increasing postsecondary attainment.The models created by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) on behalf of NEBHE's New England 2025 project provide an important framework, conceptual model and statistical tool for ...
Brandeis University trustees named George Washington University Law School dean Frederick M. Lawrence to succeed Jehuda Reinharz as Brandeis president, beginning after Jan. 1, 2011. Lawrence became dean of the GWU Law School in 2005, after nearly two decades teaching at the Boston University School of Law.University of Connecticut trustees appointed Philip E. Austin to serve as interim president...
The New England Council announced a slate of events for July ...
Congressional Roundtable Breakfast with U.S. Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) on Tuesday, July 13, 8 to 9:30 a.m., K&L Gates, located at the State Street Financial Center, One Lincoln Street, Boston
Forum on Cybersecurity, on Tuesday, July 13, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Microsoft Corp., Cambridge
Congressional Roundtable Breakfast wit...
Amid mixed reaction to Arizona's immigration law, a new national poll reveals strong bipartisan support for the DREAM Act, federal legislation introduced by Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) that would provide undocumented students brought to the U.S. as children with the opportunity to earn permanent legal status.The undocumented students would have to meet certain requirem...
Martha Kanter, under secretary in the U.S. Department of Education, and dozens of higher education leaders will speak at the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) annual conference to be held at The Westin Providence in Providence, R.I., from Tuesday, Aug. 10 through Friday, August 13. Speakers will include: Spencer Foundation President Michael S. McPherson; Complete College America...
The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) is pleased to announce its ninth annual New England Higher Education Excellence Awards.Four regional excellence awards will be presented to individuals and organizations from higher education, government and business sectors who exemplify excellence in higher education in one or more of the following areas: leadership, innovation, diversity, partne...
