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May 16, 2018
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Higher Education & Employability: The Series
The Commission on Higher Education & Employability, convened by NEBHE and chaired by Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, brought together leaders of education, business and policy for nearly a year to think outside the box about the future of the region's
skilled workplace. In March, the Commission released its report Learning for Life and Work, outlining strategies to boost New England's workforce competitiveness.
Over the coming weeks, we will offer a
closer look at the Commission's recommendations,
as well as some relevant perspectives from outside sources.
Because we're intent on real action coming out of these proposals, we will also highlight some of the Commission's "Stakeholder" recommendations, calling for specific actions by higher education institutions, employers and policymakers.
We start here with the Commission's "Strategic Recommendations" that serve as an umbrella to more specific recommendations ...
1. New England higher education institutions, along with their respective system,
coordinating and governing boards, should make increased graduate employability
a strategic priority--linked to institutions' strategic plans, key outcomes, performance
indicators and accountability measures.
2. New England higher education institutions should work to define and embed
employability across the institution and in multiple dimensions of learning and the
student experience--both curricular and extracurricular.
3. New England should make strategic investments at the state, system and institution
level to expand research, assessment and data systems to support understanding and
documentation of employability-related outcomes.
4. New England higher education institutions should undertake formal e
mployability audits to assess strategic, educational and assessment-oriented activities--and effectiveness in embedding employability across the institution.
5. New England states should consider specific employability-related equity strategies to support student success--particularly for underrepresented populations that are at risk of not completing postsecondary credentials.
6. New England states should consider specific employability strategies to support students, including underrepresented populations, who are at risk of not completing
postsecondary credentials.
Watch this space and www.nebhe.org for more ways to help lead in learning for life and work.
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Check out our newest commentary and analysis from New England's higher education leaders
Down in the Boiler Room
As a carbon-friendly Trump administration dismantles environmental protections, many higher education institutions in New England are
eyeing the 2020 deadline to hit objectives for the Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments.
The vice president of a New England manufacturing engineering company explains here how something as mundane as a campus boiler system can help colleges meet climate goals and offer hands-on research at the intersection of environmental studies and engineering.
Limited Characters Spell Austerity
Tweets, despite their limited characters, can offer some pretty telling narratives, notes
NEJHE Executive Editor John O. Harney. The narrative this time, for better or worse, centers on austerity: the tension over efforts to make higher ed more relevant and also cheaper. Austerity can come too late for institutions such as Mount Ida College, which announced this spring with hardly any warning that it will close for good at the end of the semester. Immediate concerns ran to: why didn't Mount Ida let its students, faculty and staff know earlier about the college's vulnerabilities ... especially since it was laying on the positive marketing right till the end? Also, why would UMass Amherst emerge as the savior of the jilted students, rather than the closer-by, but perennially neglected, UMass Boston? And do the recent travails of Wheelock College,
Atlantic Union College and perhaps the College of St. Joseph in Vermont make the case for a re-envisioned NEBHE look at ways to help institutions adapt models to rein in costs, pass savings onto students and--given projections of lagging enrollment--avoid closure?
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NEBHE's 2018
Guide to New England Colleges & Universities is here!
NEBHE has published an annual directory of New England colleges and universities for a half-century as a special issue of its
New England Journal of Higher Education. In 2011, NEBHE formed a partnership with
Boston magazine to jointly publish the Guide based on a NEBHE survey of campuses.
The 2018
Guide lists key data for public and independent, degree-granting colleges and universities based in New England, such as: admissions application deadlines and acceptance rates; faculty-student ratio; enrollment totals and breakdowns for part-time, commuting, female, international and minority students; cost of attendance; and degrees offered.
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