The federal GEAR UP program in Rhode Island led to large advantages for students who participated in the program in terms of persistence through the middle and high school years,… Read more »
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BIF and the Brains
Last week, I was at Providence’s Trinity Rep covering BIF2015, the Business Innovation Factory’s summit of innovators. It was BIF’s 11th summit, my fifth as a guest. I was attending… Read more »
Brand-Building for Innovators
Not too many years ago, a school’s brand just was. Few people used the “b” word. A college or university went about its business, became known for particular strengths and… Read more »
To Knock Down Barriers for Returning Adult Learners, RI Tries Something New
In a historic unanimous vote on May 20, 2015, the Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education welcomed College Unbound as a degree-granting postsecondary option in the state, designed to serve… Read more »
Living with Abundant Information: What’s a College to Do?
With its October 2014 daylong conference on competency-based education and Higher Education Innovation Challenge (HEIC), the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) has firmly grasped the horns of disruptive… Read more »
Mind the Gap … Between Grad Skills and Employer Expectations
Much has been written in both the business and higher education press about the gap between today’s jobs and the skills presented by those seeking work. The fact that U.S…. Read more »
Higher Ed Act Reauthorization Percolating?
DC Shuttle … Harkin proposes reauthorization of Higher Education Act. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced a draft bill to reauthorize the Higher Education… Read more »
Mass Higher Ed Commish to Step Down; Reid to Leave Saint Joseph Presidency
Comings and Goings … Massachusetts Higher Education Commissioner Richard M. Freeland told the state Board of Higher Education that he will leave his post at the end of the 2014–15… Read more »
Is Our Aging Population a Threat to Education?
A Demographer Looks at New England’s Population and the Future of Education A great many New England institutions of higher education are about to find out if demography will determine… Read more »
Closing Time?
Much of NEBHE’s Higher Education Innovation Challenge is based on fears that economic and demographic pressures will make the current number of degree-granting institutions (about 250 in New England and… Read more »