Comings and Goings … Southern Vermont College (SVC) selected Buena Vista University Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty David Rees Evans to be the ninth president… Read more »
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Warren Recommendation on Student Debt: What Will Work to Help America’s Students?
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has had concerns about student debt for decades. Her recent solution seeks to redistribute tax revenue from the richest Americans to enable students to refinance their… Read more »
Leveraging Up Summers on Campus; Avoiding Lost Opportunities
Perhaps it is New England’s long winter and seemingly interminable wait for spring that has me thinking about what colleges could do with their campuses during the summer. The options… Read more »
Summer 2008 NEJHE: Digital Technologies Bringing Profound Change to Higher Education
BOSTON—Digital technology is transforming colleges, students and learning according to the Summer 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE). The Summer 2008 issue, published in July,… Read more »
Spring 2009 NEJHE Features Annual Special Report on Trends and Indicators
BOSTON—New England’s population continues to grow more slowly than the rest of the United States and though the region outperforms the nation on most indicators of “college readiness,” New England’s… Read more »
Gateway to Healthcare Careers for Vulnerable Students: A New Approach to the Teaching of Anatomy and Physiology
At Southern Vermont College (SVC) and at our nation’s other colleges and universities, Anatomy and Physiology I (A&PI) is the gateway course into healthcare careers. Given the country’s growing workforce… Read more »
NEBHE Bites Into the Core
The federal No Child Left Behind law of 2002 left it to states to establish their own academic standards and assessment systems. Those standards vary across the country in rigor… Read more »
Helicopters, Lawn Mowers or Down-to-Earth Parents? What Works Best for Higher Education
Many faculty and staff working in higher education lament the increasing—some would say unending—involvement of the parents of our college-aged students. We denigrate such individuals as “helicopter” parents, and when… Read more »
Saving Pell Grants in an Era of Cost-Cutting
In the context of the recent efforts to arrive at a federal budget, articles abound in the popular media and trade publications debating both the value of Pell Grants and… Read more »
College Tries “Mini-mesters” and More to Improve Readiness
The Vermont Community Foundation’s 2009 report on postsecondary education asserts that college graduates live longer, healthier, more lucrative lives than their peers who did not graduate college. But the report… Read more »