Posts Tagged ‘Comings and Goings’
Ross Gittell Named NH Community College Chancellor
by John O. Harney
December 12, 2011
Trustees of the Community College System of New Hampshire (CCSNH) appointed University of New Hampshire economist Ross Gittell to be the system's new chancellor.
Gittell will assume the post in February, succeeding J. Bonnie Newman, who has served as interim chancellor since August, while the national search for a permanent chancellor was underway.
A distinguished professor at ...
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Among Comings & Goings: Delta Cost Project Will Dissolve, but its Work on Higher Ed Spending Will Go On
by John O. Harney
November 29, 2011
After five years bringing attention to how colleges spend money, the Delta Cost Project will dissolve in 2012. On Jan. 1, the database portion of its work will become part of the U.S. Department of Education's IPEDS data-collection and communication work. The project's analysis and communication about revenue and spending trends will shift to the ...
Read MoreTags: American Institutes for Research, Comings and Goings, Delta Cost Project, IPEDS, Jane Wellman, Kenneth Lemansk, Maine, St. Joseph's College, University of Massachusetts, Westfield State University | No Comments
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 ...
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Former NH Postsecondary Ed Commissioner Dodge Returns to Keene State; Succeeded on NEBHE Board by Barry
by John O. Harney
September 15, 2011
Keene State College appointed former executive director of the New Hampshire Postsecondary Education Commission Kathryn Dodge as special assistant to the president.
Dodge was admissions director at Keene State from 1990 to 2001.
At the commission, Dodge oversaw regulation of all public and private, for-profit and nonprofit higher education institutions and career schools in ...
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Among Comings and Goings, Pennington Leaving Gates Foundation; New Ed Commish in Conn.
by John O. Harney
September 7, 2011
Hilary Pennington, who has led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success efforts for the past five years, emailed her colleagues that she was leaving the foundation. Before joining Gates, she was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and CEO of Jobs for the Future, which she co-founded. Inside ...
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New Chiefs of NH Community Colleges, Connecticut Regents, COA, Maine Think Tank
by John O. Harney
August 23, 2011
J. Bonnie Newman, the former interim president of the University of New Hampshire, was named interim chancellor of the New Hampshire Community College System, succeeding Richard Gustafson, who is retiring as chancellor of the seven-campus system. Newman was executive dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, an assistant to President George H.W. Bush, president ...
Read MoreTags: College of the Atlantic, Comings and Goings, community colleges, interim, J. Bonnie Newman, Judd Gregg, Kennedy, Maine Center for Economic Policy, New Hampshire, UMaine, World Wildlife Fund | No Comments
Among Latest Comings & Goings, Meotti Named Interim Chief of New Conn. Regents
by John O. Harney
July 1, 2011
Connecticut Higher Education Commissioner Michael P. Meotti, a NEBHE delegate, was named interim president of the the state's new Board of Regents of Higher Education. Under the state's recent education reorganization, the Regents will serve as the board for the community colleges, state universities and Charter Oak State College, as of Jan. 1. ...
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Two New Presidents Among Latest Comings and Goings in NE Higher Ed
by John O. Harney
June 13, 2011
Landmark College hired Endicott College dean of arts and sciences Peter Eden to be the new president of the Putney, Vt. two-year college for students with learning disabilities, effective July 1.
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The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved John O’Donnell as the next president of Massachusetts Bay Community College. O'Donnell, current president ...
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Maine Chancellor Pattenaude Won’t Seek Contract Extension, Duncan to Leave Carsey Institute
by John O. Harney
May 20, 2011
University of Maine System Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude planned to tell system trustees that he will not seek an extension of his current contract, which expires next year at the end of June. Pattenaude has served as chancellor since 2007 and, before that, was president of the University of Southern Maine for 16 years. In ...
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Among Comings & Goings: Bates Taps Harvard Exec for Prez
by John O. Harney
December 8, 2011
Bates College trustees elected A. Clayton Spencer to be the eighth president in the school's 156-year history. Currently vice president for policy at Harvard, Spencer assumes the Bates post on July 1, 2012. She succeeds Nancy Cable, who has been interim president since July 1, 2011, when Elaine Hansen stepped down after nine years to ...
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