New England Board of Higher Education » Williams College http://www.nebhe.org NEBHE Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:54:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rhodes Scholars Abound in New England http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:52:19 +0000 Shoshana Akins http://www.nebhe.org/?p=7007

Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.

They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer ...]]>

Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.

They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer Lai of MIT.

Chosen from regions across the United States, these students will be funded for two to four years of study at the University of Oxford in England, thanks to the British colonialist Cecil Rhodes, who created the scholarship in his will in 1902.
Though it is a national scholarship, New England has heavily populated the Rhodes Scholarship since is inception more than 100 years ago. The colleges with the highest number of scholarship-winners are, not surprisingly, Harvard and Yale. Other New England colleges have been rising in the ranks of recipients: Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Wheaton and Williams each have received three or more scholarships in the past decade.
]]> http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england/feed/ 0 NE Campuses Wearing Green on 2011 College Sustainability Report Card http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/ne-colleges-showing-green-on-2011-college-sustainability-report-card/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ne-colleges-showing-green-on-2011-college-sustainability-report-card http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/ne-colleges-showing-green-on-2011-college-sustainability-report-card/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:59:58 +0000 NEBHE Admin http://www.nebhe.org/?p=6457

The College Sustainability Report Card 2011 is out today, revealing the profiles of 322 schools and their sustainability policies. The fifth edition of the report by the Sustainable Endowments Institute assesses 52 indicators, ranging from green initiatives to recycling programs, and uses an A to F letter-grading system to evaluate different colleges and universities nationwide.

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The College Sustainability Report Card 2011 is out today, revealing the profiles of 322 schools and their sustainability policies. The fifth edition of the report by the Sustainable Endowments Institute assesses 52 indicators, ranging from green initiatives to recycling programs, and uses an A to F letter-grading system to evaluate different colleges and universities nationwide.

Some New England campuses made honor roll with A- grades, including Amherst College, Brown University, College of the Atlantic, Middlebury College, Smith College, University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, Wesleyan University, Williams College, Yale University and Harvard University.

Others followed close behind with B+ grades, including Clark University, Colby College, Dartmouth College, MIT, Northeastern University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

For more information, visit GreenReportCard.org.

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