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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 ...]]> 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 of Stark State College in Ohio, will succeed Carol Berotte Joseph who is leaving MassBay after six years to become president at Bronx Community College in New York. He was president of the Regional Campuses of the New Hampshire Community Technical College System and commissioner and CEO of the New Hampshire Community Technical College System.

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Saint Joseph College appointed Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost Michelle M. Kalis to be the Connecticut college's provost and professor of biology and pharmaceutical sciences.

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Judy A. Beal, a longtime nurse educator who specializes in the changes in 21st century nursing, was named dean of the Simmons College School of Nursing and Health Sciences, effective July 1.

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The University of New Haven appointed Michigan State University chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ronald S. Harichandran to be dean of its Tagliatela College of Engineering, effective Aug. 1. The university also appointed Marsha K. Ham, executive director of the lifelong and distance learning division at Ohio University, to be associate vice president and dean of University College, starting Aug 1.

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Annemarie Seifert, associate vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Georgia Southern University, was appointed associate vice chancellor for student development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Hartford Seminary corporators elected four new trustees and affirmed the appointment of Timur Yuskaev, director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary, as a faculty trustee. The new trustees are: attorney and financial consultant Christel Ford Berry; Imam  Salahuddin M. Muhammad, a Muslim chaplain for the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Sydney A. Perry, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and the Jewish Community Center of New Haven; and James K. Robertson Jr., senior partner with the Carmody & Torrance law firm in Waterbury, Conn.

Endicott College was awarded a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Michigan to enhance a program that offers young, single parents the opportunity to pursue a college degree while living in designated on-campus housing with their children.

In 1992, Endicott President Richard E. Wylie started a program for young, single parents, offering academic and ...]]>

Endicott College was awarded a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Michigan to enhance a program that offers young, single parents the opportunity to pursue a college degree while living in designated on-campus housing with their children.

In 1992, Endicott President Richard E. Wylie started a program for young, single parents, offering academic and personal services to help earn degrees even while raising a child and to aid the growing number of children born to unmarried mothers, who are more likely to live in poverty than children of married parents.

The Kellogg Foundation grant creates a partnership between Endicott and Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti, Mich to start national replication of the Keys to Degrees program.