Posts Tagged ‘Pioneer Institute’
Among Comings and Goings, UVM and Carsey Institute Name Interim Chiefs; Former Unity Prez Seeks Sustainability Leaders at Second Nature
by John O. Harney
July 29, 2011
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. …
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Fogel to Step Down as UVM Prez, Patrick Kennedy to Lead Brown Institute, MIT Chair to Join Rice
by John O. Harney
March 23, 2011
Daniel Mark Fogel announced he would step down as president of the University of Vermont, effective June 30, 2012, after 10 years at the helm of Vermont's land-grant university. In a letter to the UVM community, Fogel cited successful U
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Working Wives’ Contributions to Total Family Income Rising, Says Carsey Institute
by Darrell P. Aaron
October 15, 2010
Employed wives brought home 47% of their family's total earnings in 2009, up from 45% in 2008, according to a new report by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
That “marks the largest single-year increas
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Kahlenberg to Speak in Boston About Late Chief of Teachers Union Albert Shanker
by Christine Cassis
August 26, 2010
Richard D. Kahlenberg, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, will discuss his book Tough Liberals: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy, at a forum sponsored by the Pioneer Institute, the Boston-ba
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Unholy Trinity? Secularism Institute Renews Liberal Arts Curriculum
by Ariela Keysar
August 2, 2010
Secularism is controversial in today’s political debates, championed by some and vilified by others. So when Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., opened a center for the study of secularism in September 2005, some people worried that it could become
Read MoreTags: American Religious Identification Survey, Ariela Keysar, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture (ISSSC), Secularism, Trinity College | 4 Comments
19th Better Government Competition Awards Dinner
by Christine Cassis
June 9, 2010
The Boston-based Pioneer Institute will hold its 19th Better Government Competition Awards Dinner on Friday June 18, featuring keynote speaker, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R–Mass.)
The event will take place at the Boston Marriott Copley P
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WPI Tuition to Increase by 3.4%
by NEBHE Admin
April 8, 2010
Worcester Polytechnic Institute announced it will increase undergraduate tuition and fees by 3.4%, to $38,700, for the 2010-11 academic year.
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Think Tank Says Minimum Wage Hikes Keep Less-Educated Out Of Workforce
by NEBHE Admin
April 7, 2010
Federal and state increases in the minimum wage, such as the 40% increase between July 2007 and July 2009, have priced many less-educated Americans out of the workforce, according to the Employment Policies Institute.
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Maine Chancellor Pattenaude Won’t Seek Contract Extension, Duncan to Leave Carsey Institute
by John O. Harney
May 20, 2011
University of Maine System Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude planned to tell system trustees that he will not seek an extension of his current contract, which expires next year at the end of June. Pattenaude has served as chancellor since 2007 and, be
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