Maenette K.P. Ah Nee-Benham is the new chancellor of the University of Hawai’i West O’ahu.
A native Hawaiian, Benham was previously the inaugural dean of...
Nirmal P. Narvekar is the new president and CEO of Harvard’s $35.7 billion endowment, the largest fund in higher ed.
Narvekar, a former JPMorgan Chase...
University of Wyoming President Laurie Nichols has been traveling to local Native American reservations in an effort to improve recruitment of these students.
The initiative...
Mike Krause has been appointed executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission by Gov. Bill Haslam.
Krause now spearheads the state’s Focus On College and...
Claire Sterk is the new president of Emory University in Atlanta, effective September 1.
Currently provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, Sterk’s long-range...
Eugene L. Anderson has been named vice president for the Office of Access and Success for the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).
He...
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...
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...
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...
