NEBHE was awarded a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a New England-wide project titled Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Advanced Manufacturing: Transforming 21st Century Technician Education. Funding is provided through the NSF’s Advanced Technological Education ...]]> NEBHE has published the first edition of its new Advanced Manufacturing Problem Based Learning (PBL) newsletter.

NEBHE was awarded a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a New England-wide project titled Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Advanced Manufacturing: Transforming 21st Century Technician Education. Funding is provided through the NSF’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.

Please follow NEBHE's Advanced Manufacturing PBL project at www.ampbl.org.

The grant, titled “Discovering the Art of Mathematics (DAoM): Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics for Liberal Arts,” supports development of a library of 10 full-length, standalone textbooks, student and ...]]> Westfield State University math professors were awarded a $550,600 grant from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative approach to teaching mathematics to non-mathematics and science students.

The grant, titled “Discovering the Art of Mathematics (DAoM): Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics for Liberal Arts,” supports development of a library of 10 full-length, standalone textbooks, student and teacher resource guides and assessment tools for Mathematics for Liberal Arts courses.

Mathematics for Liberal Arts includes college-level, general education math courses for students whose majors do not require a particular mathematics course like calculus, algebra or statistics.

The professors who received the grant—Julian Fleron, Philip Hotchkiss, Volker Ecke and Christine von Renesse—say they hope DAoM will help more people realize that while mathematics is practical, it can also be approached creatively and artisticly serving as a bridge between the STEM fields and the arts and humanities.

New England universities performed more than $4 billion worth of research and development in 2009, but the region’s share of total R&D performed by all U.S. universities remained at 7.3%, down from more than 10% in the 1980s.

The region's university research labs have been world-famous for ideas that breed companies and whole ...]]>

New England universities performed more than $4 billion worth of research and development in 2009, but the region’s share of total R&D performed by all U.S. universities remained at 7.3%, down from more than 10% in the 1980s.

The region's university research labs have been world-famous for ideas that breed companies and whole industries in fields ranging from biotechnology to photonics.

New England universities capture a disproportionate share of research dollars in fields such as environmental sciences. But the region has been overly reliant on federal research funds and underfunded by the New England states.

For other trend data, visit our continually updated Trends & Indicators or check back to last year's Trends & Indicators 2010 or Newslink.

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Our printed compendium richly juxtaposed 60-plus figures on state, regional, national and global higher education trends, ...]]> For more than half a century, NEBHE has been publishing tables and charts exploring "Trends & Indicators" in New England’s demography, high school performance and graduation, college enrollment, college graduation rates and degree production, higher education financing and university research.

Our printed compendium richly juxtaposed 60-plus figures on state, regional, national and global higher education trends, and became a looked-to source of data and analysis. Along the way, Trends & Indicators also created a visual shorthand view of New England’s cultural and economic vitality.

Now, our new online format allows us to bring you these stats on a more timely basis. ...

Click below to view the full charts and figures for each of our research categories:

1. Demography — Updated May 2012
2. High School Success — Updated April 2012
   
3. College Readiness — Updated August 2012
4. Higher Education Enrollment — Updated December 2011
   
5. Higher Education Enrollment: International Enrollment — Updated July 2012
   
6. College Success — Updated November 2012
   
7. Financing Higher Education — Updated February 2012
8. University Research — Updated March 2011
   

The data are drawn from a variety of sources, including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the College Board, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and NEBHE’s own Annual Survey of New England Colleges and Universities.

Check back periodically as we continue to update new trend data.

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT) was awarded a grant of more than $360,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to introduce new two-year programs in Alternative Fuel Vehicle Operations and Maintenance and a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Automotive Business Practices.

The programs aim to train and retrain technicians for hybrid vehicles, making BFIT the only ...]]>

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT) was awarded a grant of more than $360,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to introduce new two-year programs in Alternative Fuel Vehicle Operations and Maintenance and a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Automotive Business Practices.

The programs aim to train and retrain technicians for hybrid vehicles, making BFIT the only provider of "green" technicians in the Boston area.

The college has garnered three NSF grants in the past two years, worth a total of $1.1 million.

To learn more about BFIT's turnaround, read Interim President Stephen Lozen's article in The Journal.