Posts Tagged ‘Richard M. Freeland’
Coming Into Focus: A New Vision for Public Higher Education in Massachusetts
by Richard M. Freeland
November 3, 2010
This past September as thousands of college students moved into their dorms, the Boston Globe ran a front-page story about UMass Amherst. The theme of that story was familiar to anyone who has worked in public higher education in Massachusetts: The university community has high aspirations, but those hopes and plans have been consistently thwarted ...
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Been There, Done That … Now to Get Credit Toward a Degree
by Pamela Tate
August 20, 2013
Assessing what someone has learned from work and life experience to determine if it's worth college credit
When Massachusetts Higher Education Commissioner Richard M. Freeland met in June with representatives from Boston businesses and the local community, four-year colleges, community colleges and the workforce system, he described the Vision Project, an initiative through the Massachusetts Department ...
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