The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) honored U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders with a 2017 Excellence Award at the Vermont State House in Montpelier on April 11.
Sanders was first elected as a U.S. senator from Vermont in 2006, and was reelected in 2012 with 71% of the vote. He was Vermont's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 2006. He is the longest-serving independ...
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DeVos Tours Florida Schools. U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Florida schools, including Florida International University. She addressed the concerns of many educators by saying she understands the concerns of undocumented students and the Trump administration is "not seeking to go and find them in schools." DeVos also told reporters there's a "possibility" that Florida...
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Brenda Dann-Messier, former assistant U.S. secretary of education for vocational and adult education, was appointed acting commissioner of postsecondary education for Rhode Island, succeeding Jim Purcell, who left to become executive director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
Vermont Technical College named its first female president in its 150-year h...
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Lawmakers Push Back on Ed Dept, NIH Cuts in Budget Proposal. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that handles funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, pushed back against the Trump administration's call to cut nearly $18 billion in domestic programs in fiscal 2017, including $3 billion at the Education Department. B...
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Marc M. Camille, vice president for enrollment management and communications at Loyola University Maryland, was named president of Albertus Magnus College. He succeeds Julia McNamara, who served 34 years until stepping down in June 2016, and Sister Anne Kilbride who has been interim president since then.
Quinsigamond Community College trustees named Luis G. Pedraja...
The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) announces the appointment of Susan Lane as senior director of policy and research.
Lane has more than 35 years of experience working across campuses, P-12 districts, businesses and government to strengthen the reach of education though collaboration around common goals.
Most recently, as senior advisor to the commissioner for P-16 access and alig...
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Administration Rolls Back Regulations on Student Loan Defaults. The Trump administration reversed guidance from the Obama administration that forbade student loan debt collectors from charging high fees to defaulted borrowers. Loan guarantee agencies that collect on defaulted debt will now be permitted to charge borrowers who have defaulted on their federal student loans fees up to...
Through its partnership with RadioHigherEd.com, NEJHE presents a podcast on unionization and collective bargaining in U.S. higher education institutions, with William Herbert, the Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in U.S. Higher Education Institutions.
The podcast offers a primer on collective bargaining in higher education, tracing historical devel...
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Trump's Budget Proposal. President Donald Trump released his FY 2018 federal budget blueprint or "skinny budget." Trump's budget proposal would cut $9.2 billion, or almost 14%, from the Education Department's budget. The proposal would downsize or eliminate a number of grants, including for teacher training, afterschool programs, and aid to low-income and minority college students...
Comings and Goings ...
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...
The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) honored U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders with a 2017 Excellence Award at the Vermont State House in Montpelier on April 11.
Sanders was first elected as a U.S. senator from Vermont in 2006, and was reelected in 2012 with 71% of the vote. He was Vermont's sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 2006. He is the longest-serving independ... 
DC Shuttle ...
DeVos Tours Florida Schools. U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Florida schools, including Florida International University. She addressed the concerns of many educators by saying she understands the concerns of undocumented students and the Trump administration is "not seeking to go and find them in schools." DeVos also told reporters there's a "possibility" that Florida... 
Comings and Goings ...
Brenda Dann-Messier, former assistant U.S. secretary of education for vocational and adult education, was appointed acting commissioner of postsecondary education for Rhode Island, succeeding Jim Purcell, who left to become executive director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
Vermont Technical College named its first female president in its 150-year h... 
DC Shuttle ...
Lawmakers Push Back on Ed Dept, NIH Cuts in Budget Proposal. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), chair of the Appropriations subcommittee that handles funding for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, pushed back against the Trump administration's call to cut nearly $18 billion in domestic programs in fiscal 2017, including $3 billion at the Education Department. B... 
Comings and Goings ...
Marc M. Camille, vice president for enrollment management and communications at Loyola University Maryland, was named president of Albertus Magnus College. He succeeds Julia McNamara, who served 34 years until stepping down in June 2016, and Sister Anne Kilbride who has been interim president since then.
Quinsigamond Community College trustees named Luis G. Pedraja... 
DC Shuttle ...
Administration Rolls Back Regulations on Student Loan Defaults. The Trump administration reversed guidance from the Obama administration that forbade student loan debt collectors from charging high fees to defaulted borrowers. Loan guarantee agencies that collect on defaulted debt will now be permitted to charge borrowers who have defaulted on their federal student loans fees up to... 
Through its partnership with RadioHigherEd.com, NEJHE presents a podcast on unionization and collective bargaining in U.S. higher education institutions, with William Herbert, the Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in U.S. Higher Education Institutions.
The podcast offers a primer on collective bargaining in higher education, tracing historical devel... 
DC Shuttle ...
Trump's Budget Proposal. President Donald Trump released his FY 2018 federal budget blueprint or "skinny budget." Trump's budget proposal would cut $9.2 billion, or almost 14%, from the Education Department's budget. The proposal would downsize or eliminate a number of grants, including for teacher training, afterschool programs, and aid to low-income and minority college students... 
Comings and Goings ...
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...