December 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.
Read moreDecember 19, 2018
SHEEO Member eNews: December 2018
by Ben Cannon, Executive Director Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission
As we near legislative sessions in many of our states, higher education finance will be a frequent topic of conversation. SHEEO has informed this dialogue for 15 years with our State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report. This report seeks to broaden our understanding of the state higher education finance landscape in an effort to inform effective policy decisions at the state and federal level.
Read moreDecember 19, 2018
University of Maine System Chancellor Page Retiring End of June
by Eesha Pendharkar, BDN Staff
When James Page took the helm of Maine’s university system, student enrollment was declining and the state’s public universities faced sizable, long-term deficits. Seven years later, Page will step down at a time when enrollment has stabilized — and even grown on some campuses — and the system’s long-term deficits have disappeared.
Read moreNovember 27, 2018
SHEEO Member eNews: November 2018
by Antoinette Mitchell, Assistant Superintendent of Postsecondary and Career Education
One thing the election season guarantees is change. Some of us are heartened by the outcomes of any given election while others are discouraged. I was recently asked by a reporter to prognosticate what this change might mean for higher education policy. The question was asked with a particular political lens in mind, but what it led me to consider is my firm conviction that both parties ultimately want to…
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