New England Commencements ...
Commencement season ... It's one of those rich aspects of traditional New England higher education that gets short shrift when all attention turns to no-nonsense quantified learning measures and returns on investment. Still, the annual spring descent on New England campuses of distinguished speakers, ranging from Nobel laureates to Pulitzer winners to grassroots mir...
Chard
Comings and Goings ...
David J. Chard, dean of the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University, was named the 14th president of Wheelock College, effective July 1.
The Maine Community College System Board of Trustees appointed Lisa Larson, who currently serves as vice president for academic and student affairs at Minnesota&...
DC Shuttle ...
Senate Confirms King as Education Secretary. The Senate voted 49 to 40 to confirm John King as the secretary of education. King had been serving as acting secretary since the beginning of the year, but President Obama officially nominated him in February after calls to do so from Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Although King's ...
Williams
Comings and Goings ...
Epidemiologist Michelle A. Williams, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, will become the first black person to head a faculty at Harvard and the first female dean of the school, beginning in July.
Susan D. Stuebner, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Pennsylvania's Allegheny College, was named the ninth ...
DC Shuttle ...
Senate Committee Recommends King Confirmation. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted 16-6 to recommend that the Senate confirm Acting Secretary John King as secretary of education. Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said he believed King would be confirmed before the Senate leaves town for its Easter Recess.
Senate Appropriators Question Depa...
DC Shuttle ...
Senate Committee Holds King Confirmation Hearing. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for Acting Secretary of Education John King. The acting secretary testified in front of the committee for about two hours and answered questions on topics including the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), campus sexual...
Insights and recommendations from NEBHE’s Redesigning Student Aid in New England project ...
College affordability has taken center stage for students, their families, legislators and higher education institutions. Nowhere is this truer than in New England. A new report from NEBHE’s Redesigning Student Aid in New England project suggests several strategies for how higher education lea...
Through its partnership with RadioHigherEd.com, NEJHE is pleased to provide a conversation with Anthony Carnevale, director of the Center for Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University.
In this podcast, Carnevale discusses the center's most recent report, Six Million Missing Jobs: The Lingering Pain of the Great Recession.
Radio Higher Ed’s entire podcast collection can be ...
O'Rourke
Comings and Goings ...
Syracuse University fundraising expert Elizabeth “Lil” Breul O’Rourke was named president of the University of Rhode Island Foundation.
Michael Gargano, former provost of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, was named president of St. Vincent's College in Bridgeport, Conn.
Colleen Fitzpatrick, an assistant vice presid...
Enrollment through the Regional Student Program (RSP) remained steady this year in undergraduate programs at New England's state colleges and universities, according to NEBHE's Annual RSP Report, but decreased overall at the community colleges and at the graduate schools.
Notably, RSP undergraduate enrollment reached record highs at the University of Connecticut, University of Main...
New England Commencements ...
Commencement season ... It's one of those rich aspects of traditional New England higher education that gets short shrift when all attention turns to no-nonsense quantified learning measures and returns on investment. Still, the annual spring descent on New England campuses of distinguished speakers, ranging from Nobel laureates to Pulitzer winners to grassroots mir... 
Chard
Comings and Goings ...
David J. Chard, dean of the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University, was named the 14th president of Wheelock College, effective July 1.
The Maine Community College System Board of Trustees appointed Lisa Larson, who currently serves as vice president for academic and student affairs at Minnesota&... 
DC Shuttle ...
Senate Confirms King as Education Secretary. The Senate voted 49 to 40 to confirm John King as the secretary of education. King had been serving as acting secretary since the beginning of the year, but President Obama officially nominated him in February after calls to do so from Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN). Although King's ... 
Williams
Comings and Goings ...
Epidemiologist Michelle A. Williams, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, will become the first black person to head a faculty at Harvard and the first female dean of the school, beginning in July.
Susan D. Stuebner, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Pennsylvania's Allegheny College, was named the ninth ... 
DC Shuttle ...
Senate Committee Recommends King Confirmation. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted 16-6 to recommend that the Senate confirm Acting Secretary John King as secretary of education. Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said he believed King would be confirmed before the Senate leaves town for its Easter Recess.
Senate Appropriators Question Depa... 
DC Shuttle ...
Senate Committee Holds King Confirmation Hearing. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for Acting Secretary of Education John King. The acting secretary testified in front of the committee for about two hours and answered questions on topics including the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), campus sexual... 
Insights and recommendations from NEBHE’s Redesigning Student Aid in New England project ...
College affordability has taken center stage for students, their families, legislators and higher education institutions. Nowhere is this truer than in New England. A new report from NEBHE’s Redesigning Student Aid in New England project suggests several strategies for how higher education lea... 
O'Rourke
Comings and Goings ...
Syracuse University fundraising expert Elizabeth “Lil” Breul O’Rourke was named president of the University of Rhode Island Foundation.
Michael Gargano, former provost of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, was named president of St. Vincent's College in Bridgeport, Conn.
Colleen Fitzpatrick, an assistant vice presid... 
Enrollment through the Regional Student Program (RSP) remained steady this year in undergraduate programs at New England's state colleges and universities, according to NEBHE's Annual RSP Report, but decreased overall at the community colleges and at the graduate schools.
Notably, RSP undergraduate enrollment reached record highs at the University of Connecticut, University of Main...