Posts Tagged ‘John O. Harney’
UConn Names Female Leader; Two Green Champions Depart NE Presidencies
by John O. Harney
December 21, 2010
The University of Connecticut appointed Susan Herbst as its first female president. Herbst was executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at the University System of Georgia and, before that, acting president of the State University of New York at Albany. Her brother, Jeffrey Herbst, is president of Colgate ...
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Drop the PILOT? Not Yet, Say Cash-Strapped Municipalities
by John O. Harney
December 2, 2010
Private colleges, nonprofit hospitals, museums, soup kitchens and churches are exempt from property taxes. As cash-strapped host municipalities look for more revenue, their interest in collecting payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) from charitable nonprofit organizations will grow, according to a report by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
In recent ...
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Post-Election Post-Mortems Begin …
by John O. Harney
November 3, 2010
The Boston think tank MassINC will present "What just happened?" First impressions of the 2010 election results" with panelists Alison King of New England Cable News, Scot Lehigh of the Boston Globe and Steven Koczela of MassINC Polling Group, on Friday, Nov. 5, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., at Suffolk University Law School in ...
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Foundations Should Bring Equity to Education, National Report Says
by John O. Harney
October 29, 2010
Only a small fraction of the billions of dollars that foundations grant annually for education goes toward the specific needs of lower-income and vulnerable students, according to a study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog.
The committee's new report Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education calls on foundations to address the ...
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Free Tuition: An Idea That’s Still Green
by John O. Harney
October 21, 2010
More than 100 Green Party candidates nationwide called for a “Green New Deal” that includes making tuition free at public universities.
It's not the first time. California public campuses charged no tuition (but increasing fees) for state residents for decades. in 2003, Preston H. Smith II of Mount Holyoke College and Sharon Szymanski of The Labor ...
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Rutgers Over Harvard by a Hair
by John O. Harney
October 18, 2010
If you sometimes suspect college rankings are pushing the agenda of some untold sponsor, here's a poll whose sponsor is nakedly advertised: the "State of Scruff" Schick Hydro Hairiest Colleges Study from the makers of Schick Hydro® razors and Sperling's Best Places.
The findings suggest Rutgers, Harvard, the University of South Florida, Georgetown and American University ...
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Tell Me a Story: Reporting from the BIF-6 Conference in Providence
by John O. Harney
September 27, 2010
A few hundred people packed the Trinity Rep theater in downtown Providence Wednesday, Sept. 15, and Thursday, Sept. 16, with ears and minds open. More than a dozen entrepreneurs and artists told stories of how they used innovation and social technologies to help solve problems from protecting mothers in childbirth to ...
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Taking Our Medicine: From One New England Journal to Another
by John O. Harney
September 14, 2010
As the New England Board of Higher Education celebrates its 55th anniversary this year with our new content hub website, Facebook, Twitter and other social media, it is comforting to know our early history has a place in one of the oldest journals in New England.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently added online archives ...
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Remember Before Beloit Reminded You How Old You Are?
by John O. Harney
August 19, 2010
Ten years ago, Beloit College of Wisconsin found a gimmick that won it a yearly splash in the media spotlight.
It was 1998 when the college first released its Beloit College Mindset List of "cultural touchstones" thought to shape the lives of students entering college.
As if to underscore the tool's blend of intellectual curiosity and the ...
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New Faces in NE Prez Offices
by John O. Harney
November 30, 2010
World-class and working class New England colleges made changes at the top today.
Tufts University, the world-famous research university centered in Medford, Mass., announced its next president will be Anthony P. Monaco, pro-vice-chancellor for planning and resources at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. A neuroscientist, Monaco identified the first gene specifically involved ...
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