The College Crusade of Rhode Island awarded $1.1 million in college scholarships to 349 Rhode Island students during the 2009-10 academic year. Most of the scholarship recipients are from low-income families in Central Falls, Pawtucket, Providence, and Woonsocket and attend colleges in New England....
Vermont State Colleges trustees named Joyce M. Judy to be the president of Community College of Vermont, where she has served as interim president since July 2009. For more, click here....
Fairfield University announced that Harvard University executive VP Katherine Lapp, and University of Texas cancer researcher James Abbruzzese, M.D., will address the university’s 60th commencement on Sunday, May 23, on Bellarmine Lawn. Lapp will address undergraduates at 9:30 a.m. Abbruzzese will address graduate students at 3 p.m. For more, click here....
Worcester Polytechnic Institute announced it will increase undergraduate tuition and fees by 3.4%, to $38,700, for the 2010-11 academic year. Last year's 2.9% increase was the lowest percentage increase at WPI in nearly 20 years, and considerably lower than the U.S. average of 4.4%. WPI has maintained a "frost" on staff positions, replacing departing staff or adding new positions only in the most ...
The University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire College & University Council will hold a one-day "New Hampshire Diversity Summit, Making Excellence Inclusive: Building Engaged Learning Communities Throughout New Hampshire" on Friday, April 16, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at UNH's Holloway Hall. The summit will explore ways to sustain institutional change, develop institutional and communit...
U.S. Rep. Michael H. Michaud (D-Maine) will address the graduating class at Maine Maritime Academy’s 67th commencement on Saturday, May 1, at 11 a.m. in Alexander Fieldhouse. For more, click here....
Michelle Kwan, the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history will keynote Southern Vermont College’s 83rd commencement exercises on Saturday, May 8. The winner of two Olympic medals and U.S. Public Diplomacy Envoy recently went back to college, enrolling as a graduate student at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of International Affairs. For more, click here....
Bert Jacobs, co-founder of the company “Life is Good,” will be the commencement speaker for the University of New Hampshire graduating class of 2010, on May 22. For more, click here....
At the March 17 meeting of the Connecticut Department of Higher Education, Commissioner Michael Meotti and Associate Director Mark French demonstrated a new online financial literacy game, called Who Wants to Be Financially Responsible? The interactive course, found at flip.ctdhe.org, designed to help young adults become more confident in managing financial matters, is a collaborative effort by th...
One of the two towers that comprise the hotel and conference center at the University of New Hampshire, known as the New England Center, will become housing for more than 170 students. UNH announced last summer that the hotel, conference center and restaurant would close in June 2010 for financial reasons. Turning the center into a dorm called “Adams Tower West” offers a financial solu...
