New England Board of Higher Education » University of Maine Farmington http://www.nebhe.org NEBHE Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:48:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Among Comings & Goings: Bates Taps Harvard Exec for Prez http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/among-comings-goings-bates-taps-harvard-exec-for-prez/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=among-comings-goings-bates-taps-harvard-exec-for-prez http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/among-comings-goings-bates-taps-harvard-exec-for-prez/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:07:09 +0000 John O. Harney http://www.nebhe.org/?post_type=newslink&p=11489 Bates College trustees elected A. Clayton Spencer to be the eighth president in the school's 156-year history. Currently vice president for policy at Harvard, Spencer assumes the Bates post on July 1, 2012. She succeeds Nancy Cable, who has been interim president since July 1, 2011, when Elaine Hansen stepped down after nine years to ...]]>

Bates College trustees elected A. Clayton Spencer to be the eighth president in the school's 156-year history. Currently vice president for policy at Harvard, Spencer assumes the Bates post on July 1, 2012. She succeeds Nancy Cable, who has been interim president since July 1, 2011, when Elaine Hansen stepped down after nine years to lead the Center for Talented Youth at The Johns Hopkins University. Spencer served under four Harvard presidents and played key roles in the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the creation of a summer program for local high school students and the expansion of need-based tuition support under the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative.

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Up the road a piece, University of Maine System Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude appointed Ryan Low as executive director of governmental & external affairs for the system, succeeding John Lisnik, who is retiring after 21 years. Besides government relations, Low will oversee the system’s public and media relations efforts. He has been vice president of administration and CFO at UMaine Farmington since July 2010 and served as a member of Gov. Paul LePage’s Streamlining Commission. Prior to that, he was commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services in the Baldacci administration.

]]> http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/among-comings-goings-bates-taps-harvard-exec-for-prez/feed/ 0 LGBTQ College Presidents Organize to be Heard http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/lgbtq-college-presidents-organize-to-be-heard/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lgbtq-college-presidents-organize-to-be-heard http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/lgbtq-college-presidents-organize-to-be-heard/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:23:53 +0000 Shoshana Akins http://www.nebhe.org/?p=7322

In August 2010, nine openly gay college leaders met to form a first-of-its-kind collegiate organization, the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. Among their ranks were three officials from New England: Ralph Hexter, past Hampshire College president and among the first openly gay presidents; Katherine Ragsdale, president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge; and Theo Kalikow, ...]]>


In August 2010, nine openly gay college leaders met to form a first-of-its-kind collegiate organization, the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education. Among their ranks were three officials from New England: Ralph Hexter, past Hampshire College president and among the first openly gay presidents; Katherine Ragsdale, president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge; and Theo Kalikow, president of the University of Maine Farmington. The group's intention was to create a proper caucus for non-heternormative officials in the realm of higher education and bring issues concerning this population to a larger audience.

Four months later, the group put out an introductory video on YouTube in which the presidents expound on their purpose and hopes for the future of the LGBTQ community in higher education. Now including 25 openly gay college presidents in the U.S., the LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education will make its official debut with a panel presentation at the March 2011 meeting of the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C.

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