The New England Journal of Higher Education back issues from April 1999:
Editor's memo
Apr 01, 1999; ... How do New Englanders and their "opinion leaders` in government, education, business, the media and the civil sector view their region at the millennium? In an attempt to find out, the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) and the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at ...
State of grace?
Apr 01, 1999; ... The relentless quest for grant support can make strange bedfellows of socially progressive universities and companies looking to rehabilitate tarnished images. Witness the WR. Grace Foundation's recent $150,000 grant to Brandeis University in support of 25 environmental interns to be ...
Thomas's promises
Apr 01, 1999; ... Thomas College now sends forth graduates with a guarantee: land a job in your field within six months of graduation or Thomas will pay your federal student loan bills for up to a year. The job placement guarantee, which Thomas claims is the most comprehensive in the nation, applies to ...
Heavy impact
Apr 01, 1999; ... New England's 260 or so college campuses spent nearly $15 billion in 1996, up 23 percent over a five-year period, and employed about 175,OOQ people. If your local campus or system hasn't yet quantified its piece of the total-with multiplier effects, of coursejust wait. The region's colleges and ...
Sloganeering
Apr 01, 1999; ... Connecticut's economy has been riding high. Job growth is up; personal income is tops in the nation. And the gross state product per worker dwarfs the U.S. average-$78,342 in 1996, compared with a national figure of $63,833, according to The Connecticut Economy, the newsletter-style journal ...
Tuition watch
Apr 01, 1999; ... Between academic years 199S91 and 199S99, New England's private four-year institutions raised tuition and fees by an average of $7,800 or 69 percent, while the region's public four-year institutions hiked tuition and fees for state residents by $1,800 or 67 percent, according to a recent NEBHE ...
The science of art
Apr 01, 1999; ... As the future summer home of the Boston Ballet, the Meadow Summer Stage is a key feature of the Boch Center for the Performing Arts, soon to be Cape Cod's first year-round arts facility. But the 2,000-person open-air theater under development in Mashpee, Mass., has had to overcome more than the ...
Letters
Apr 01, 1999; ... To the editor: Jon Marcus is a thoroughly decent individual who cares deeply about higher education and its role in American society. Unfortunately, his recent article in CONNECTION, "On the Beat: A Former Higher Education Reporter Reflects on Coverage," also reveals a strong bias and ...
Data connection
Apr 01, 1999; ... * Approximate number of jobs per 100 residents in Farmington, Conn: 124 * Approximate number of jobs per 100 residents in Bridgeport, Conn: 35 * Percentage of parents who think it is important to teach new immigrant students English as quickly as possible even if it means they ...
The future of New England
Apr 01, 1999; ... New Englanders and their "Opinion Leaders" Consider a Regional Agenda The role of nation-states is changing all around the globe as political boundaries give way to powerful regional initiatives. Meanwhile, profound technological and demographic changes are transforming New England's ...
A shared regional agenda?
Apr 01, 1999; ... What the Future of New England Survey Tells Us about Regional Priorities and Perceptions The New England Board of Higher Education's Future of New England survey of residents and "opinion leaders" highlights both the value and limitations of using opinion surveys to inform and guide ...
Will R&D go the way of manufacturing?
Apr 01, 1999; ... Only in Maine and Rhode Island did "opinion leaders: surveyed by NeBHE rank "maintaining research & development funding" among the fiive policy issues in need of the most urgent attention. But regional organizations have long regarded R&D as a vital New England interest. New ...
Suburban sprawl or urban withdrawal?
Apr 01, 1999; ... Rethinking New England's Urban Assets There was a time when we all openly identified with our urban heritage. Except for Native Americans, we all have ancestors who landed on America's shores with the dream of freedom, prosperity and opportunity. For many of us, the long road to ...
Who's not at the policy table?
Apr 01, 1999; ... Change May Begin with a Solo, but Thrives with Many Voices When I became mayor of Maine's second largest city a year ago, I had an aversion to politics and a poor opinion of government and the political process. In the past year, however, I have become a born-again patriot with a new ...
Teachers needed
Apr 01, 1999; ... The Search Is on for Quality Educators. Could Ph.D.s Answer the Call? Improving the quality of public schools is New England's most pressing priority, according to the Future of New England survey. The region's opinion leaders even suggest that improving the quality of local schools is ...
Governor of New England?
Apr 01, 1999; ... Issues Revealed, Tongues in Cheek, the "Campaign" Begins In February, the New England Board of Higher Education kicked off a mock Race for Governor of the State of New England meant to focus attention on the promises and perils of regionalism in the six states. NEBHE invited ...
The state of New England: A fact sheet
Apr 01, 1999; ... THE LAND The six New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont cover 66,672 square miles or 2 percent of the total area of the United States. New England is about the size of one Midwestern state-and, it has been noted, ...
The state of New England: Editorializing
Apr 01, 1999; ... NEBHE's Future of New England survey and second annual New England Agenda conference captured widespread media coverage all over New England including the following editor Is, reprinted with permission from the respective papers. AN AGENDA FOR NEW ENGLAND Is New England a ...
Public assistance and workforce development: The growing divide
Apr 01, 1999; ... When the New England Board of Higher Education convened educators, business leaders and others in Boston last fall to discuss workforce development, a worsening skilled labor shortage hung over the proceedings. Speaker after speaker described how economic prosperity and low unemployment were ...
The life of an MIT president
Apr 01, 1999; ... Holding the Center: Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education, Howard Wesley Johnson, The MIT Press, 1999, $3495 It's hard to say who will enjoy Howard Wesley Johnson's memoirs more, old hands in higher education who are interested in the good and not-so-good times that the 12th president ...
Cyber-libraries
Apr 01, 1999; ... Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age, Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain, MIT Press, 1999, $30 With the explosive proliferation of the Internet in this decade, the public library has faced an unexpected though perhaps not unwelcome challenge to ...