Higher Education

Elizabeth Chilton was inaugurated as the school’s 21st president Friday.

They also say New Hampshire’s community college system should turn its seven distinct colleges into one college with seven campuses.

In New Hampshire, an additional 12,000 students will be newly eligible for Pell Grants, according to federal data.

Last week, Gov. Chris Sununu announced a new task force to study how the state can react to the steady enrollment drop, and how its public colleges and universities should acclimate to a new reality.

During her time at Franklin Pierce, President Kim Mooney has also served as a provost and vice president for academic affairs.

The Henniker-based school acquired the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2018, keeping a long-running commitment to arts education in Manchester alive. Then the pandemic changed the math.

The pattern doesn’t hold for public schools like UNH, according to the study.

In 2016, the University of Southern Maine purchased a Naviance campaign that targeted White, Black, and Hispanic students in Massachusetts. But its ad campaigns in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont targeted only White students, according to contracts obtained through public records requests.

A year after passing into law a set of regulations barring K-12 teachers from certain instruction around race and gender, some Republican lawmakers are pressing to extend the regulations to the state’s public colleges and universities.

After protests arose about the handling of sexual assault at the University of New Hampshire, students and administrators were at odds. They're moving toward working together. NHPR talked to both parties.