Rev. John Denning Named President of Stonehill College

Stonehill College Website

May 17, 2013

Stonehill College has named Rev. John Denning, C.S.C. as its tenth President today, Friday, May 17. Currently the Vice President for Student Affairs at the College, Fr. Denning will assume the presidency on July 1, as Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C. steps down after 13 successful years of leading the 65-year-old Catholic liberal arts college. Fr. Denning began his service at the College in 2000 as its Director of Campus Ministry.

How to Weigh the Future

Inside Higher Ed

May 17, 2013

Would you be willing to pay about $13,000 more a year in tuition to go to a college that doesn’t invest in fossil fuels? That’s the amount of revenue that Swarthmore College administrators recently estimated the college would forgo in endowment returns if the college’s governing board decided to divest from fossil fuels. The bulk of Swarthmore’s estimated losses would not come from screening out fossil fuel companies directly, but rather through requiring the college to fundamentally change how it manages its endowment.

Three Out of 2U

Inside Higher Ed

May 17, 2013

Despite a year of considerable hype as leading colleges and universities created online partnerships to try to redefine higher education, a recent spate of strong faculty reactions make clear that tradition will not change easily or silently, especially at institutions with a strong history of faculty influence. The decisions by the three universities (Duke University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester) offer a spectrum of reactions to a new wave of online learning and the companies that are trying to drive that change.

Hiram College president Tom Chema to exit post

Crain's Cleveland Business

May 16, 2013

Hiram College president Thomas V. Chema announced that he will step down at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year. He has led the small private college since 2003. Hiram said it has launched a national search for Mr. Chema's replacement. The next president is slated to begin July 1, 2014. Prior to his arrival at Hiram, Mr. Chema served as a partner at Arter & Hadden LLP in Cleveland.

Yale faces $165,000 fine after university 'fails to report' four sex offenses

New Haven, conn., Register

May 15, 2013

Yale University faces a $165,000 fine for “very serious and numerous” violations of the law requiring Yale to report incidents of crime on campus. The U.S. Department of Education, in an April 19 letter to President Richard Levin, charged that Yale did not report four “forcible sex offenses in its campus crime statistics,” two each in 2001 and 2002. Yale admitted the omission in 2004 and said it had implemented corrective action.

Wofford College announces its new president

Associated Press

May 15, 2013

Trustees voted Tuesday to name Nayef Samhat the private college's new leader. Samhat has served as provost and a political science and international studies professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, for the past four years. He will replace Benjamin Dunlap this summer. Dunlap, who has been Wofford's president since 2000, will take a yearlong sabbatical, then return as a humanities professor.