New England ranks lowest of any US region for retaining college students after graduation, according to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. And one reason why may be the availability of jobs, suggested a policy brief prepared by the bank’s New England Public Policy Center.
Alumni Relations
6/3/2013
6/3/2013
Once again, graduation time is upon us, and a new study by the Los Angeles Times says plenty about the state of higher education in America. The paper looked at the invited commencement speakers for 150 colleges and universities. There are just four conservative speakers, as opposed to at least 69 liberal speakers.
5/3/2013
With close to 5,000 potential Michigan State University gift allocations, many donors were already completing a transaction and then going right back in and shopping again. So imagine what MSU could gain by offering donors a single shopping cart through which they could make multiple donations.
4/11/2013
According to a new survey of 318 executives at private sector companies and nonprofit organizations, employers look for more than someone who's specially trained in a field when considering recent college graduates for jobs.
2/20/2013
It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk
1/31/2013
Most universities are spending less, not more, on their career centers.
11/12/2012
February 6-8, 2013
The Waldorf Astoria
New York, NY
10/21/2012
University falls well below average of Pac-12 schools
10/18/2012
A group of Calvin College alumni are pushing administrators to make campus a more welcoming environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
10/18/2012
The two-year schools are trying to follow a path long traveled by four-year universities, but face their own set of challenges, including the lack of big league sports or scientific research.
8/30/2012
A lapse in student record-keeping on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's computer system led to the online release of a former football star's grades, Chancellor Holden Thorp said Thursday, in explaining a disclosure that's prompted new questions about special treatment for athletes at the elite public college.
8/14/2012
North Carolina is investigating how what appears to be a transcript for former football star Julius Peppers surfaced on the university's website.
8/8/2012
A group of University of Virginia alumni are calling on the school's board to explain candidly its attempted ouster of President Teresa Sullivan, saying a failure to do so will hurt the university's reputation and its fundraising efforts.
7/29/2012
One major Penn State donor says he might write the university out of his will, while others say neither the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal nor recent unpopular actions by the university's leadership are making them rethink their financial support for the school.
6/13/2012
Michigan State University alumni who use their university email soon will lose their accounts if they haven't been a student in two years.
