New England Board of Higher Education » Rice University http://www.nebhe.org NEBHE Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:48:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Roger Williams, Cambridge and Gordon Appoint New Presidents http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/roger-williams-cambridge-gordon-name-new-presidents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roger-williams-cambridge-gordon-name-new-presidents http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/roger-williams-cambridge-gordon-name-new-presidents/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:10:22 +0000 John O. Harney http://www.nebhe.org/?post_type=newslink&p=8712 Roger Williams University trustees named scientist and attorney Donald J. Farish, to be the Bristol, R.I. university's 10th president. Farish served  13 years as president of Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. He will take office at RWU on July 1, succeeding Ronald O. Champagne, who has been interim president since August 2010.

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Roger Williams University trustees named scientist and attorney Donald J. Farish, to be the Bristol, R.I. university's 10th president. Farish served  13 years as president of Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. He will take office at RWU on July 1, succeeding Ronald O. Champagne, who has been interim president since August 2010.

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Cambridge College appointed Deborah Jackson as its new president, effective May 2011. Jackson served for nearly a decade as CEO of the American Red Cross of Eastern Massachusetts. Founded in 1971, Cambridge College is a private, nonprofit institution dedicated to providing time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited.

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Gordon College appointed D. Michael Lindsay, an evangelical scholar at Rice University in Houston and a leading sociologist on the role of religion and public life, to be the eighth president of the Christian liberal arts school in Wenham, Mass. Lindsay, age 39, will start on July 1. He'll succeed R. Judson Carlberg, who was president for 19 years.

]]> http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/roger-williams-cambridge-gordon-name-new-presidents/feed/ 0 Fogel to Step Down as UVM Prez, Patrick Kennedy to Lead Brown Institute, MIT Chair to Join Rice http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/fogel-to-step-down-as-uvm-prez-patrick-kennedy-to-lead-brown-institute-mit-chair-to-join-rice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fogel-to-step-down-as-uvm-prez-patrick-kennedy-to-lead-brown-institute-mit-chair-to-join-rice http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/fogel-to-step-down-as-uvm-prez-patrick-kennedy-to-lead-brown-institute-mit-chair-to-join-rice/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:48:13 +0000 John O. Harney http://www.nebhe.org/?p=8442

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 UVM initiatives such as the creation of the Honors College, a six-credit diversity requirement and ...]]>


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 UVM initiatives such as the creation of the Honors College, a six-credit diversity requirement and the UVM Transportation Research Center.

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Brown University announced that former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, an advocate for mental health care and neuroscience research, accepted a two-year appointment as a visiting fellow at the Brown Institute for Brain Science through the 2012-13 academic year.

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Edwin “Ned” Thomas, chair of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was named dean of Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, effective July 1.

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