Comings and Goings … The University of New Haven Board of Governors promoted an “innovative presidential transition plan” in which Steven H. Kaplan, who has been president of the university… Read more »
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Recommencing!
Long before Covid changed everything, NEJHE and NEBHE’s Twitter channel kept a close eye on New England college commencements. “The annual spring descent on New England campuses of distinguished speakers,… Read more »
Can Academics Help Build a Partnership Between Humans and AI? (Books)
Book Review The Age of AI and our Human Future, by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher, with Schuyler Schouten, New York, Little, Brown and Co., 2021. Reviewed… Read more »
Food for Thought: A New Way to Measure “Farm-to-Campus” Operations
In January 2022, Farm to Institution New England (FINE) will launch the New England Farm and Sea to Campus Data Center, a new system for collecting, measuring and reporting farm-to-campus… Read more »
Universities with Federal Contracts Eye Status of Vaccine Mandate
DC Shuttle … Vaccine Mandate Injunction. A federal judge issued an injunction stopping President Joe Biden’s executive order mandating Covid-19 vaccines for employees of federal contractors, including higher education institutions… Read more »
Roberson To Leave Roxbury CC; Interim to Succeed Interim at Vermont’s Castleton
Comings and Goings … Roxbury Community College (RCC) President Valerie Roberson announced she will still step down from the post she has held since 2013. Though some Boston media outlets… Read more »
Grappling with Public College Pricing in a Covid World: NEBHE’s 2020-21 Tuition and Fees Report
In the 2020-21 academic year, the U.S. and New England saw a decline in higher education enrollment as students and families reckoned with job losses and the economic turmoil created… Read more »
U.S. Ed Dept to Address Lost Instruction Time … as Maine’s Congressional Delegation Slams Thumbs-Down on GEAR UP
DC Shuttle … Ed Dept Launches Two Communities of Practice To Help Students Impacted by the Pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education announced it would launch two communities of practice,… Read more »
Building Back Better, with Infrastructure … but Fewer International Students
DC Shuttle … House Passes Build Back Better Act. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act by a vote of 220 to 213. The Congressional Budget… Read more »
Distance Education Boomed Last Year, Signaling New Era for Learning
The number of students who sought postsecondary education through exclusively distance modalities grew from a little over 3 million in 2019 to more than 5.8 million in 2020, according to… Read more »