January 15, 2019
Response to United States Senators Doug Jones, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Catherine Cortez Masto’s Student Borrowers of Color Solicitation Letter
by David Tandberg
The racial patterns in college completion and educational attainment rates, debt burden, and loan repayment and default rates identified in the Senators’ letter are symptoms of a centuries-old problem that includes and encompasses but also goes far beyond higher education. The root of the problem is our country’s historic and pervasive institutionalized racism. Centuries of intentional and unintentional actions, policies, practices, customs, and patterns are manifested in the extreme racial…
Read moreJanuary 10, 2019
Randy Gardner Appointed Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education
by Ohio Department of Higher Education
Randy Gardner was appointed the 10th Chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education in January 2019. As Chancellor, he oversees the state’s public two-year and four-year institutions and Ohio Technical Centers; provides policy guidance to the Governor and the Ohio General Assembly; and carries out state higher education policy.
Read moreJanuary 7, 2019
Timothy Larson Named Executive Director of Connecticut Office of Higher Education
by Matt Dillane
Governor-elect Ned Lamont has tapped Tim Larson to lead the Office of Higher Education. The office oversees such tasks as administering state financial aid programs and regulating more than 150 postsecondary career schools.
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.
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