Posts Tagged: legislators

Autumn Almanac

NEBHE’s annual fall meetings explored the federal Higher Education Act and aligning state policy with higher ed … The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) held its annual fall board meeting last month in Mystic, Conn. In a session on reauthorization of the federal Higher Education Act (HEA), Sarah H. Flanagan, vice president for government relations and policy development...

Chronicle of Higher Ed Asks Where State Legislators Went to College

For years, we asserted that New England's struggles with low state fiscal support for higher education stemmed in part from the under-representation of public higher education alums in the region's state legislatures. This week, the national Chronicle of Higher Education published a major review of where state lawmakers went to college. Among the findings: New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts a...