Tweets, despite their limited characters, can offer some pretty telling narratives. In May 2017, we ran a piece titled Real Tweets, Fake News … and More from the NEJHE Beat,… Read more »
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A New Way to Rank Colleges: What Percentage of Students Vote?
The recent March for Our Lives at hundreds of locations around the globe rattled my cage, particularly as I stood in the middle of hundreds of thousands of protesters in… Read more »
Academic Disciplines: Synthesis or Demise?
Current anxiety over the values and directions of what we used to call “higher education” has rich and complex roots in the past, as well as problematic branches into the… Read more »
Early to College, Likely to Rise? Benefits and Challenges of Early College Programs
Look around your campus this semester for some students who look unusually young, eager and attentive. It may not be, as faculty sometimes say, that “the students are looking younger…
Maine Legislative Session 2017: Legislature Overturns the Will of the Voters
The first regular session of Maine’s 128th state Legislature was exceptionally challenging, as lawmakers engaged in a bitter fight over the budget while wrestling with four ballot questions approved by… Read more »
Massachusetts Legislative Session 2017: Budget Signed But Hot-Button Issues Face Legislators in September
Two weeks into FY 2018, Gov. Charlie Baker signed a $39.4 billion spending package that increases spending by 1.7% over the prior year. He vetoed $320 million from the budget,… Read more »
Connecticut Legislative Session 2017: Session Ends Without A Budget
On June 7, 2017, Connecticut legislators wrapped up their session without passing a two-year budget. The failure to pass a budget or a provisional budget reflects a deeply divided Legislature… Read more »
Commit to Building on New England’s “Employability” Advantage!
Higher education has provided New England with an economic advantage, as the region without strong natural resource advantages has relied on its higher education institutions (HEIs) and brainpower. A higher… Read more »
Come Together
A NEJHE interview on the future of consolidating colleges and merging universities … NEBHE has been deeply interested in how New England higher education institutions can collaborate with one another… Read more »
Breaking Away
Karen Gross is senior counsel with Finn Partners, former president of Southern Vermont College and author of Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students, from which this piece… Read more »