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DeVos on ICE
DC Shuttle … DeVos Comments on Undocumented Students Highlights House Hearing. The House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing on the U.S. Department of Education and heard testimony… Read more »
Senate Would Edge Up Labor-HHS-Education Funding
DC Shuttle … Senate Appropriations Chair Announces 2019 Education Spending. Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) announced that the allocation for Labor-HHS-Education for the 2019 fiscal year beginning… Read more »
Trump Admin Wrestles With Its HBCU Positions
DC Shuttle … DeVos Visits HBCU, Trump Questions HBCU Funding. U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Bethune-Cookman University to deliver its commencement address. She was met with controversy as hundreds… Read more »
The Show Goes On
More Commencements … Christine Keville, the first female national president and foundation chair of the Construction Management Association of America, will keynote Wentworth Institute of Technology’s commencement on Saturday, April 23,… Read more »
The Greatest Lecture Series on Earth?
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… Read more »
Spring Training: Some Catches from the NEJHE Beat …
Spring Has Sprung? You’d never know by the snow on the ground in many parts of New England, but the announcements of spring commencement speakers at the region’s higher education…
From NH, a Wish of Salaam to Jordan
Following is the recent commencement address at American University of Madaba in the Kingdom of Jordan by former NEBHE Chair and New Hampshire state Sen. Lou D’Allesandro … I am… Read more »
HEA Rewrite Moving Forward
DC Shuttle … HEA Reauthorization. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA). The hearing was titled “HEA Reauthorization:… Read more »
Lawyer Wool Chairs NEBHE, Entrepreneur Gabrieli Chairs Mass BHE, Former Maine Guv Candidate Cutler to Lead Merger at UMS
Comings and Goings … Vermont lawyer Michael Wool became chair of the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), succeeding former Maine state Sen. Emily Cain, who stepped down as… Read more »