America’s largest producer of PBS content for TV and the web, WGBH hired Vermont Public Radio's Kirk Carapezza as managing editor and lead correspondent of the Higher Ed Desk.

The ...]]> WGBH Boston is creating a Higher Ed Desk to help enrich its award-winning radio, television and online stories with angles from Boston and New England's famed postsecondary education.

America’s largest producer of PBS content for TV and the web, WGBH hired Vermont Public Radio's Kirk Carapezza as managing editor and lead correspondent of the Higher Ed Desk.

The desk is supported through more than $1 million in grants over the next thee years from the Lumina Foundation and the Davis Educational Foundation.

On Tuesday, Kara Miller of WGBH's "Innovation Hub" hosted a conversation at Suffolk University's Modern Theater about the future of higher education.

The New England Journal of Higher Education, meanwhile, has tried to keep a close eye on how media and higher education relate in an age when both are undergoing revolutionary change.

Last fall, the Boston Globe and its affiliated website Boston.com launched 10 Your Campus sites featuring links to bloggers, campus newspapers, websites, Twitter feeds and Globe staff articles

The report reveals that the majority of transfers occurred in students' second year, regardless of the direction ...]]> One-third of all students who began their postsecondary education in 2006 transferred (before earning a degree or certificate) to a different institution within a five-year period, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

The report reveals that the majority of transfers occurred in students' second year, regardless of the direction of transfer (vertical, lateral or reverse). The most prevalent transfer destination was public two-year institutions, even among students who started at a four-year institution.

NEBHE and the New England states have been keenly interested in students' transfer activity.

Among transfer-related efforts in New England:

Advantage U is a partnership between Maine Community Colleges and the University of Maine system guaranteeing community college graduates admission to a university in the U of Maine system.

MassTransfer is designed to ease the college transfer process in Massachusetts through defined coursework, an online portal, and resources for faculty and students.

The Transfer Guide published annually by the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education outlines the articulation policies across all three public institutions in the Ocean State.

NEJHE recently highlighted new trends in student transfer in an article titled The Good Business of Transfer by national consultant Chari A. Leader. She noted that academic and career entry and exit points now span a lifetime for "swirling, dropping in, dropping out, and moving on" learners.