New England Board of Higher Education » Mitchell Thomashow http://www.nebhe.org NEBHE Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:54:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Among Comings and Goings, UVM and Carsey Institute Name Interim Chiefs; Former Unity Prez Seeks Sustainability Leaders at Second Nature http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/among-comings-and-goings-uvm-and-carsey-institute-name-interim-chiefs-former-unity-prez-seeks-sustainability-leaders-at-second-nature/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=among-comings-and-goings-uvm-and-carsey-institute-name-interim-chiefs-former-unity-prez-seeks-sustainability-leaders-at-second-nature http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/among-comings-and-goings-uvm-and-carsey-institute-name-interim-chiefs-former-unity-prez-seeks-sustainability-leaders-at-second-nature/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:55:09 +0000 John O. Harney http://www.nebhe.org/?post_type=newslink&p=9429 University of Vermont trustees named former Provost A. John Bramley to serve as interim president, beginning Aug. 1. He will succeed Daniel Fogel, who is resigning the presidency after nine years in charge and will join the UVM faculty. Bramley, himself a longstanding member of the UVM faculty, served as acting president in 2006 when ...]]> University of Vermont trustees named former Provost A. John Bramley to serve as interim president, beginning Aug. 1. He will succeed Daniel Fogel, who is resigning the presidency after nine years in charge and will join the UVM faculty. Bramley, himself a longstanding member of the UVM faculty, served as acting president in 2006 when Fogel suffered from acute pancreatitis. From 2007 to 2011, Bramley was president of the Windham Foundation, the largest private foundation in Vermont.

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The University of New Hampshire named former Provost Bruce L. Mallory to be interim director of the the university's Carsey Institute for the next two years.

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Mitchell Thomashow, who stepped down as president of Unity College earlier this month, took over as part-time director of the Second Nature Presidential Fellows Program, which is designed to help college leaders promote sustainability agendas on their campuses. Thomashow urged colleagues to share a prospectus for the fellows program with potential candidates.

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Saint Joseph College appointed four new trustees: Patricia LeShane, CEO and co-founder of Sullivan & LeShane, which provides legislative and administrative lobbying, issues-oriented government affairs, public relations and strategic communications services; Nancy Matthews, chancellor of the Diocese of Bridgeport, which includes more than 460,000 registered Catholics in Fairfield County; Lewis Robinson Jr., an  authority on antitrust law and legislative issues; and Christine Whitehead, an attorney and author.

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Champlain College named Dave Strubler, formerly of Michigan's Kettering University, to be dean of the college's Division of Business.

 

 

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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 ...]]>

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 University.

Meanwhile, New England will have to learn to live without two of America's greenest college presidents.

College of the Atlantic President David F. Hales, who announced he will step down after graduation in June, will go on extended leave beginning Jan. 1, 2011. The COA  board named current Administrative Dean Andrew Griffiths as interim president.

Unity College President Mitchell Thomashow steps down as the ninth president on July 1, leaving the small environmental college in rural Unity, Maine, with a national niche as a champion of sustainability.

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