In this installment of NEJHE‘s New Directions for Higher Education series, Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviews Deborah… Read more »
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How Obama’s Tuition-Free Community College Plan Would Affect One State
President Obama started off the year with a proposal to make a community college education as “universal” as high school by making the associate degree or first two years of… Read more »
NCLB Not Left Behind?
DC Shuttle … NCLB reauthorization debate heats up. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave remarks regarding the reauthorization of the now-expired No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. He said that… Read more »
Reactions Swirl Ahead of SOTU Pitch for Tuition-Free Community College
President Obama will outline a plan during next week’s State of the Union address to make the first two years of community college tuition-free. The president’s proposal—if adopted by the… 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 »
NCAA’s Latest Pay-to-Play Scheme Would Sack Concept of Amateur Student Athlete, Raise Antitrust Questions
Now that members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) have voted to approve a sweeping, if not radical, proposal giving the five largest athletic conferences “autonomy” to establish new… Read more »
To Close Middle-Skills Gap, Improve Community College Outcomes
Over the past four years, there has been intense talk about the middle-skills gap in New England. In Massachusetts—from the governor, often flanked by business leaders, to the commissioner of… Read more »
Math Task Force’s Bad Calculation
The number of incoming college students who require development mathematics coursework is a national problem. As reported by the National Center for Educational Statistics, 42% of students entering college for… Read more »
New England’s High “Average Net Prices” and Why We Should Care (or Not)
The University of Southern Maine and Maine Maritime Academy were recently identified as Maine’s most expensive public colleges as measured by average net price in 2011-12 based on a recent… Read more »
Educating the Next Generation of Makers
NEBHE’s Problem Based Learning Projects Focus on Hot Fields such as Advanced Manufacturing … The field of manufacturing typically conjures images of dimly lit dirty and dangerous factories crowded with… Read more »