Posts Tagged ‘Mount Ida College’
Gov. Malloy, Sen. Kerry, Victoria Reggie Kennedy Among Newly Announced NE Commencement Speakers
by John O. Harney
March 13, 2012
American writer, commentator and bioethicist Ruth Levy Guyer will keynote Southern Vermont College's 85th commencement on Saturday, May 12. Working as a consultant for the President's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Guyer is developing a guide for the commission's recent report on unethical experiments conducted by U.S. Public Health Service researchers in Guatemala ...
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Vt. Gov. Shumlin to Address Green Mountain College Grads … and More Commencement News
by John O. Harney
April 25, 2011
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin will deliver the commencement address at Green Mountain College's 174th graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m. on the college's Griswold Library lawn.
Boston TV journalist Liz Walker will deliver the commencement address at Regis College on Saturday, May 14, at 10 a.m. in the Tower Gardens.
Walmart Foundation President ...
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Brandeis, UConn Among NE Campuses Making Prez Moves
by Shoshana Akins
July 9, 2010
Brandeis University trustees named George Washington University Law School dean Frederick M. Lawrence to succeed Jehuda Reinharz as Brandeis president, beginning after Jan. 1, 2011. Lawrence became dean of the GWU Law School in 2005, after nearly two decades teaching at the Boston University School of Law.
University of Connecticut trustees appointed Philip E. ...
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The High School to College Transition: Minding the Gap
by Deborah Hirsch
June 4, 2010
The value of a college degree is well documented. College graduates earn at least 60% more than high school graduates. Beyond the economic value, college graduates show higher rates of civic participation, engage in volunteer work and even have a much higher likelihood of being “happy,” according to a 2005 survey by the Pew Research ...
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New Chiefs at Mount Ida, UMaine Farmington, Presque Isle; Former SCSU Prez Finds Footing at Slippery Rock
by John O. Harney
April 26, 2012
Mount Ida College announced that Barry Brown, provost, professor and former acting president of Suffolk University, would become president of the Newton, Mass. college, effective July 1.
University of Maine System trustees approved two new campus presidents. Kathryn A. Foster, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., was appointed president of the University ...
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