Nationally, state and local funding for higher education may be making a comeback. In fact, FY 2013 was the first year since 2009 when state and local funding per full-time equivalent student increased from the previous year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association’s annual report on state higher education finance. While 30 states increased funding per student,...
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House and Senate committees hold hearings on Ed Budget. The House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing on the FY 2015 budget request for the Department of Education. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan testified. Education Week reported that lawmakers raised concerns with the admiration's waivers from the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The Senate H...
NEBHE published the third edition of Advanced Manufacturing Problem Based Learning (AM PBL) News.
NEBHE in September 2012 was awarded a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a New England-wide project titled Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Advanced Manufacturing: Transforming 21st Century Technician Education. Funding is provided through the NSF’s Advanced...
Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns
Jane Altes, former vice president for academic affairs and interim president of Empire State College, and Daniel B. Ginsberg, former assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, will address Southern Vermont College's 87th Commencement on Saturday, May 10.
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Bowdoin College President Barry Mills announced he will resign in June 2015.
The Rev. Paul J. Fitzgerald, S.J., senior vice president for academic affairs at Fairfield University, was selected to be president of the University of San Francisco, succeeding the Rev. Stephen A. Privett, S.J.
Rutgers University-Camden official Andrew Seligsohn was named the next president of ...
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander.
General Electric aviation executive Mike Sims will address graduates at Wentworth Institute of Technology on Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. on the main quadrangle.
Western Connecticut Health Network President and CEO John Murphy M.D. will address thegraduate commencement at Western Connecticut State University on Friday, May 9 in the Stephen Feldman Arena.Educ...
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Amid enrollment declines, state systems turn to new policies to fill seats and improve college completion
Many state colleges and universities throughout the region are facing enrollment declines after a nationwide period of growth between 2006 and 2011 that saw overall enrollment increase by 3.2 million students. Among the reasons for this drop off is the improving econo...
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Administration announces grants for aligning education with jobs. The Obama administration announced a new initiative to encourage academic credit for apprenticeships, Inside Higher Ed reported. President Obama announced that 24 awards, totaling $107 million, will be given across the country to partnerships of education agencies, workforce investment boards, universities and corpor...
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.
Judith S. Kaye, former chief judge of New York and of the Court of Appeals and now a lawyer with the Skadden firm, will deliver the commencement address at the Roger Williams University School of Law ceremony on Friday, May 16 at 1 p.m. on the university’s main athletic field. Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee will address the Roger Williams Uni...
Trinity College named Tufts University Dean Joanne Berger-Sweeney to be its 22nd president ... and the first African-American and first woman to hold the post.
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The University System of New Hampshire selected Roxanne Gonzales, an academic dean and professor at Regis University in Denver, to be the next president of Granite State College. Gonzales served as a director of Prior Learning As...
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House and Senate committees hold hearings on Ed Budget. The House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing on the FY 2015 budget request for the Department of Education. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan testified. Education Week reported that lawmakers raised concerns with the admiration's waivers from the requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The Senate H... 
NEBHE published the third edition of Advanced Manufacturing Problem Based Learning (AM PBL) News.
NEBHE in September 2012 was awarded a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a New England-wide project titled Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Advanced Manufacturing: Transforming 21st Century Technician Education. Funding is provided through the NSF’s Advanced... 
Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns
Jane Altes, former vice president for academic affairs and interim president of Empire State College, and Daniel B. Ginsberg, former assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs, will address Southern Vermont College's 87th Commencement on Saturday, May 10.
Homebuilder and founder of C&S (College Student) Builders ... 
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander.
General Electric aviation executive Mike Sims will address graduates at Wentworth Institute of Technology on Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. on the main quadrangle.
Western Connecticut Health Network President and CEO John Murphy M.D. will address thegraduate commencement at Western Connecticut State University on Friday, May 9 in the Stephen Feldman Arena.Educ... 
State Capital Notes ...
Amid enrollment declines, state systems turn to new policies to fill seats and improve college completion
Many state colleges and universities throughout the region are facing enrollment declines after a nationwide period of growth between 2006 and 2011 that saw overall enrollment increase by 3.2 million students. Among the reasons for this drop off is the improving econo... 
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.
Judith S. Kaye, former chief judge of New York and of the Court of Appeals and now a lawyer with the Skadden firm, will deliver the commencement address at the Roger Williams University School of Law ceremony on Friday, May 16 at 1 p.m. on the university’s main athletic field. Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee will address the Roger Williams Uni...