Posts Tagged ‘Brown University’
NE Losing Three Eminent College Chiefs
by John O. Harney
September 27, 2011
Three distinguished leaders announced their decisions to leave New England college presidencies ...
Most recently, Jane Sanders announced she will step down as president of Burlington College, effective in mid-October, after seven years at the helm.
In mid-September, Ruth J. Simmons announced she will step down as president of Brown University at the end of ...
Read MoreTags: black president, Brown University, Burlington College, Comings and Goings, Ivy League, Jane Sanders, Theodora J. Kalikow, University of Maine at Farmington | No Comments
Fogel to Step Down as UVM Prez, Patrick Kennedy to Lead Brown Institute, MIT Chair to Join Rice
by John O. Harney
March 23, 2011
Daniel Mark Fogel announced he would step down as president of the University of Vermont, effective June 30, 2012, after 10 years at the helm of Vermont's land-grant university. In a letter to the UVM community, Fogel cited successful UVM initiatives such as the creation of the Honors College, a six-credit diversity requirement and ...
Read MoreTags: Brown University, Daniel M. Fogel, Engineering, Institute for Brain Science, Materials Science, MIT, Patrick Kennedy, Rice University, University of Vermont | No Comments
How to Develop Learners Who Are Consistently Curious and Questioning
by Jamie E. Scurry, Ariel Wilburn, Alex Villagomez and Mike McCarthy
December 21, 2010
In the U.S., postsecondary education has long driven individual social mobility and collective economic prosperity. Nonetheless, the nation’s labor force includes 54 million adults who lack a college degree; of those, nearly 34 million have no college experience at all. In the 21st century, these numbers cannot sustain us.
Returning to learning: Adults’ success ...
Read MoreTags: Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living, Big Picture Learning, Brown University, College Unbound, Essential Learning Outcomes, labor force, Lumina Foundation, National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America’s Promise, Nellie Mae, Postsecondary Education, Roger Williams University, Southern New Hampshire University, Staples Foundation for Learning | No Comments
Rhodes Scholars Abound in New England
by Shoshana Akins
December 1, 2010
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 ...
Read MoreTags: Amherst College, Brown University, Dartmouth University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Rhodes Scholarship 2010, Rhodes Trust, Shoshana Akins, University of Oxford, University of Virginia, Wheaton College, Williams College | No Comments
NE Campuses Wearing Green on 2011 College Sustainability Report Card
by Christine Cassis
October 26, 2010
The College Sustainability Report Card 2011 is out today, revealing the profiles of 322 schools and their sustainability policies. The fifth edition of the report by the Sustainable Endowments Institute assesses 52 indicators, ranging from green initiatives to recycling programs, and uses an A to F letter-grading system to evaluate different colleges and universities nationwide.
Some ...
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URI Gets $212k Shot in Arm for Vaccine Studies
by Christine Cassis
July 15, 2010
A University of Rhode Island biotechnology professor was awarded a $212,000 grant to hire summer research fellows for vaccine studies. The grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allows 14 students and recent graduates from URI, Brown University, Bates College and the University of Connecticut to conduct research on vaccines against diseases ranging ...
Read MoreTags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Bates College, Brown University, christine cassis, grants, Recovery, research, UConn, University of Connecticut, University of Rhode Island, vaccine | No Comments
Student-Created Fund Helps Raise Money to Cover Unmet Need
by Cody Simmons
June 4, 2010
Today’s fast-paced and Internet-driven society provides a lot of opportunities for innovation in the college financial aid world. As tuition costs continue to rise faster than average incomes, more students are turning to private lenders and other third-party organizations to finance their educations; the Harvard Educational Review estimates that there was a 76% increase in ...
Read MoreTags: American Educational Research Journal, Brown University, Co-fund.org, Donors Choose, Gates Foundation, Harvard Educational Review, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Kiva, Partridge Snow & Hahn, U.S Education Department Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance | No Comments
In Rhode Island, Building a bRIdge to the Knowledge Economy
by Adam Leonard
August 14, 2012
"Your students come here for four years and leave."
For some time, this had been a common perception among many Rhode Islanders regarding to the state's independent colleges and universities. But that's changing.
The state’s housing bubble had burst in 2006, leading to interest in developing less volatile economic sectors that would provide the stable high-end ...
Read MoreTags: Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island, Brown University, internships, knowledge economy, Providence, RecoVend, Salve Regina University | No Comments