Posts Tagged ‘University’
The Edvolution Continues: Western NE is Latest College to Graduate to University
by John O. Harney
April 18, 2011
Western New England College of Springfield, Mass., was awarded "university" status by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and will change its name to Western New England University on July 1, 2011.
Why the name change? Western New England will develop a Ph.D. program in Engineering Management to join its existing Ph.D. in Behavior ...
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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation
by Persis C. Rickes
June 22, 2010
The following is excerpted from “Make Way for Millennials! How Today's Students are Shaping Higher Education Space” by Persis C. Rickes, founder of the Massachusetts-based higher education consulting firm Rickes Associates. The full piece first appeared in Planning for Higher Education, the journal of the Society for College and ...
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University Communities and the Next American Upgrade
by Blair Levin
April 30, 2012
Knowledge is humanity’s first and final frontier. From the Edenic exodus to flights beyond earth, our mythic narratives reveal that going where no one has gone before to learn what no one has known before drives us like no other quest.
That quest, for many millennium largely driven by spiritual needs, has become core to economic ...
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