May 25, 2023
For the first time, state funding to public colleges exceeds per-student funding levels seen prior to the Great Recession
The latest State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report finds that in 2022, public higher education appropriations increased 4.9% beyond inflation, surpassing pre-recession per-student funding levels for the first time since 2008. The SHEF report also finds that fiscal year 2022 saw the second largest public FTE enrollment decline since the start of the SHEF dataset in 1980, and tuition revenue continued to decline. After a short recession in 2020 due…
Read moreJanuary 2, 2019
Michael LeFever Appointed South Carolina Interim SHEEO
by South Carolina Commission on Higher Education
The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education (CHE) announced today that Mr. Michael LeFever will serve as Interim President and Executive Director beginning the first week of January.
Read moreDecember 26, 2018
Kate O’Neill named Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Higher Education Department
by Andrew Oxford
Gov.-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham tapped Kate O’Neill, the former head of the University of New Mexico’s Taos campus, to head her administration’s Higher Education Department.
Read moreDecember 23, 2018
Al Bowman Retiring as Executive Director of Illinois Board of Higher Education
by Lenore Sobota, Education Reporter for The Pantagraph
Al Bowman, Illinois State University president emeritus, is retiring as executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education at the end of the month.
Read moreDecember 22, 2018
Angie Paccione Named Executive Director of Colorado Department of Higher Education
by Boldly Forward Colorado
Angie Paccione, Department of Higher Education: Former State Representative from Ft. Collins, Angie is an accomplished author and leadership coach who served as Vice Chair on the Committee on Education and Chair of the Subcommittee on Higher Education. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Human Resource Studies from CSU.
Read moreDecember 20, 2018
Dennis Olson Jr. Named New SHEEO of Minnesota Higher Education Office
by Brian Bakst
To head the state office of higher education, Walz named Dennis Olson, the executive director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and a former director of Indian Education at the education department. The other finalists were former state Sens. Terri Bonoff and Steve Kelley, both DFLers who represented suburban districts.
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