Anant Agarwal won the annual Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education, for pioneering the MOOCs movement. A professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Agarwal is one of the founders and current CEO of edX. The partnership between MIT and Harvard University now includes 70 universities and institutions around […]
David W. Andrews begins his term as president of National University in California April 1. Formerly the dean and a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Education, he led that institution to No. 1 U.S. News rankings two years in a row. He promoted "smart growth" strategies in enrollment and program development and raised […]
Kim E. Schatzel will begin her term as president of Towson University, one of the University System of Maryland's 12 institutions, in late January. Currently she serves as interim president, provost and executive vice president of academic and student affairs at Eastern Michigan University. There, she reorganized academic and student affairs to improve the student […]
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has been elected president of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system. Spellings is currently president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. She served as secretary of education from 2005 to 2009, during which she led the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act and spearheaded […]
Mary Sue Coleman, a former president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa, has been named the next president of the Association of American Universities, an organization for research institutions. She will succeed the retiring Hunter R. Rawlings III, who has held the post since June 2011. Coleman, who retired in 2014 […]
Your school has been rescued—now what? How do you restore students' and parents' faith in your revived institution? Two colleges that have recently bounced back from the brink are Antioch in Ohio and Sweet Briar in Virginia. While Sweet Briar has only just embarked on the road to revival, Antioch College this past spring graduated […]
The wave of first-generation and low-income students now seeking higher ed access is placing unprecedented financial strain on the full spectrum of liberal arts institutions, says James F. Jones, the interim president of Sweet Briar College. But while other higher ed leaders acknowledge this and other challenges, many say the shutting down this year of […]
Joe Adams, Interim President and CEO and Vice President of Research and Cyber Security, Merit Network The Michigan Cyber Range is a virtual facility where people can practice responses to cyberattacks. What was the impetus behind creating it? In October 2011, Michigan's governor, Rick Snyder, called for the development of a virtual facility for cybersecurity workforce training. Merit Network […]
Valerie Smith, current dean of the college at Princeton University, has been named the 15th president of Swarthmore College (Pa.). Smith has been the senior officer responsible for Princeton's undergraduate academic program, including all aspects of the curriculum, undergraduate research and the residential college system. She recently chaired a committee that studied the academic and […]
For many colleges and universities, there used to be gold in garbage. Or, at least, there was some revenue to go along with the recycling stream. But two years ago, the whole landfill landscape changed. "When China shifted its policy, it affected almost every school," says Travis Freidman, sustainability and energy manager at the University […]
