Springfield College President Richard B. Flynn announced he will retire on Aug. 31, after 14 years as president.

Amherst College tapped Kevin Weinman, Dartmouth College’s assistant vice president of finance, to ...]]>

Marian Court College trustees approved the appointment of Denise A. Hammon as the college's fourth president. She had been serving as interim president since August 2012.

Springfield College President Richard B. Flynn announced he will retire on Aug. 31, after 14 years as president.

Amherst College tapped Kevin Weinman, Dartmouth College’s assistant vice president of finance, to be Amherst’s first-ever chief financial officer. In December, we reported that Amherst named its first-ever provost: Belgium-native Peter Uvin, former academic dean and professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Sacred Heart University appointed former Boston Red Sox manager and Stamford, Conn. native Bobby Valentine as executive director of intercollegiate athletics, replacing outgoing director C. Donald Cook.

Dartmouth College named mathematician and University of Michigan Provost Philip J. Hanlon to be its next president starting in July. Hanlon will succeed Jim Yong Kim, who resigned in April to become the president of the World Bank.

The Atlantic Union College Board of Trustees appointed general surgeon Duane M. Cady, M.D. ...]]>

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Dartmouth College named mathematician and University of Michigan Provost Philip J. Hanlon to be its next president starting in July. Hanlon will succeed Jim Yong Kim, who resigned in April to become the president of the World Bank.

The Atlantic Union College Board of Trustees appointed general surgeon Duane M. Cady, M.D. as interim president of the Lancaster, Mass. college. The college has applied to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education to reestablish its degree-granting authority after the New England Association of Schools and Colleges discontinued the college's accreditation in 2010 for financial reasons.

Amherst College named its first-ever provost: Belgium-native Peter Uvin, former academic dean and professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an expert in development, conflict and human rights in Africa, will begin at Amherst this summer.

Patricia A. Ciccone, the superintendent of the state's Vocational-Technical High School System, announced she will leave the system in January to become superintendent of Westbrook Public Schools.

Quinebaug Valley Community College President Ross Tomlin submitted his resignation to the Board of Regents for Higher Education after three years leading the 2,500-student college. A spokeswoman for the Board of Regents said Tomlin's departure has nothing to do with the central office's controversial offer, since rescinded, of expedited separation for community college presidents.

Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.

They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer ...]]>

Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.

They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer Lai of MIT.