Posts Tagged ‘John O. Harney’
No. 9 … No. 9 … No. 9 (Rebels and Rabbis and other Stories from BIF-9)
by John O. Harney
September 24, 2013
I was at Providence’s Trinity Rep last week covering the Business Innovation Factory's (BIF's) summit of innovators—BIF’s ninth, my fourth. The lineup of speakers—“storytellers” in BIF parlance—included puppeteers, rebels at work, an innovative rabbi, educators and assorted other visionaries. The audience: about 400 self-assessed innovators, some with job titles like Chief Sorceress and Disruptor. The BIF theme: ...
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Limping to the Top
by John O. Harney
June 21, 2013
New England is aging ... but gracefully?
Last week, the Census Bureau reported that three New England states are the oldest in the U.S. in median age: Maine (43.5 years), Vermont (42.3 years) and New Hampshire (42 years). The other states in the region are old too: Connecticut (40.5 years); Rhode Island (39.8 years) and Massachusetts ...
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Learning Channels: WGBH Creates a Higher Ed Desk
by John O. Harney
June 4, 2013
WGBH Boston is creating a Higher Ed Desk to help enrich its award-winning radio, television and online stories with angles from Boston and New England's famed postsecondary education.
America’s largest producer of PBS content for TV and the web, WGBH hired Vermont Public Radio's Kirk Carapezza as managing editor and lead correspondent of the Higher Ed Desk.
The ...
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Deadly Serious: The Boston Marathon Tragedy and Education
by John O. Harney
May 21, 2013
As this year began, NEJHE published the thoughtful concerns of Lasell College admissions official Christopher M. Gray about how colleges would need to address applicants who have experienced a traumatic and life-changing event such as 9/11 or the Sandy Hook mass murders. Now such events have visited Boston and so will traumatized applicants.
Two bombs exploded ...
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Commencements: Lennox at Berklee, Marsalis at UVM … and that’s Just the Musical Guests!
by John O. Harney
March 21, 2013
Photo of Annie Lennox.
Rebecca Onie, cofounder and CEO of Health Leads, will deliver the keynote address at MGH Institute of Health Professions’ 2013 commencement on Thursday, May 9.
Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox will deliver the keynote at Berklee College of Music on Saturday, May 11 at Boston University's Agganis Arena.
Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the ...
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To Go Where No One Has Gone Before: Hundreds Brave Storm to Join NEBHE in Recognizing Excellence
by John O. Harney
March 12, 2013
Despite a late-winter snowstorm, hundreds of New Englanders braved the snow to attend NEBHE's 11th New England Higher Education Excellence Awards celebration on Friday, March 8, at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel.
Each year, NEBHE presents Regional Excellence Awards to individuals and organizations that have shown exceptional leadership on behalf of higher education and the ...
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Seeking New Directions: Be Part of a Bold NEJHE Series Exploring Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
by John O. Harney
February 12, 2013
The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) invites you to be part of a new series examining emerging issues, trends, innovations and ideas that will make a profound impact on higher education in New England and globally.
The series called “New Directions for Higher Education” will feature interviews with key visionaries by Philip DiSalvio, dean ...
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Trendsetting: A New Way to Keep Up With Trends & Indicators in New England’s Education and Economy
by John O. Harney
January 29, 2013
Introducing NEBHE's new Trends & Indicators ...
It should go without saying that data is tricky (or is it are tricky?).
Take the issue of student aid as one example. Some states have annual budgets; some have biennial. Some states report all kinds of aid in one place; others leave it to observers to patch together the ...
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No Stinkin’ Badges? Mozilla’s Erin Knight on “Open Badges” (Video)
by John O. Harney
November 8, 2012
NEBHE held its University Unbound conference in Boston last month, bringing together more than 400 educators and opinion leaders to discuss how MOOCs and other innovations are disrupting higher education's hold on knowledge, instruction and credentialing. Here is some of what Mozilla's Erin Knight said about her "Open Badges" work—an alternative credentialing system allowing learners ...
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Exploring Higher Education Business Models (If Such a Thing Exists)
by John O. Harney
October 8, 2013
The global economic recession has caused students, parents and policymakers to reevaluate personal and societal investments in higher education—and has prompted the realization that traditional higher ed “business models” may be unsustainable.
Jay A. Halfond of Boston University and Peter Stokes of Northeastern University recently conducted a non-scientific "pulse" survey of presidents at smaller ...
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