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Connection the Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education CONNECTION THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION VOLUME XX NUMBER 2 FALL 2005 Inside: • CONNECTION Interview with David Halberstam • 50 Years of New England Higher Education and Economic Development: A Timeline • Robert Woodbury on Stratification in Higher Education • Reflections on Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going • Profs Without Borders: A Plan to Reconnect America to the World Families have many questions about financing college. Give them one solution... MEFA Created by colleges for colleges, MEFA is dedicated to making higher education a reality. We are a not-for- profit organization whose sole focus is helping families and students afford a higher education through low cost financing strategies. 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Helping student and families pay for their education • Promoting college access in our community • Fostering partnerships and reforms so that a college • education is an achievable dream for all young people www.teri.org 31 St. James Street, 4th floor Boston, MA 02116 (617) 426-0681 Volume XX, No. 2 CONNECTION Fall 2005 THE JOURNAL OF THE NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION The Human Development Gap James P. Comer, M.D. A Future in Concrete? Seymour Papert Teaching Expert Thinking Chris Dede Affordability and Opportunity Sandy Baum A Plan for Higher Education Access John F. Tierney Diversifying Academic Knowledge Cover image by Agata Stadnik. Esther Kingston-Mann Close the Latino Education Gap COVER STORIES Marilda L. Gandara Attracting Students to Science George M. Langford 13 The Fifties … Fifty Years Later Regional Resource for R&D CONNECTION Interviews David Halberstam on a Andrew G. De Rocco Half Century of Change A Tall Order for New England Robert E. Miller 19 Fifty Years of New England Higher Education and Economic Development: COMMENTARY & ANALYSIS A Timeline 19 Six States, One Destiny 45 Profs Without Borders Critical Issues in New England’s Economic A Plan to Reconnect American Higher Education Development with the World William Mass and David C. Soule Michael Lestz 25 Hardening Class Lines DEPARTMENTS The Erosion of the Social Contract in Higher Education Robert L. Woodbury 5 Editor’s Memo Fifty Years 29 Coming Together John O. Harney How a Half Century of Segregation and Desegregation Continues to Shape New England’s Future Short Courses Blenda J. Wilson 7 9 Message from the President 32 Visions: Reflections on the Past, Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally Predictions for the Future Evan S. Dobelle In Search of New NEBHEs Neal Peirce and Curtis Johnson 11 Message from the Chair Demography Is Still Destiny Fifty Years of Expanding Educational Opportunity Peter Francese Lou D’Allesandro New England’s Going to Do It Again James T. 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Maybe it’s the black and white photos of suit-and-tied men, 45 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111-1325 M Phone: 617.357.9620 Fax: 617.338.1577 nearly all men, around meeting tables. Email: [email protected] Or perhaps it’s the global threat du jour. An item on inadequate college facul- Vol. XX, No. 2 Fall 2005 ty salaries from the November 1957 issue describes a NEBHE conference where ISSN 0895-6405 “participants realized anew that Russia is putting its schools ahead of almost Copyright © 2005 by the New England Board everything else in its mad rush for world domination.” A 1959 issue notes that of Higher Education. New England colleges have refused a half-million dollars in National Defense Publisher: Evan S. Dobelle Education Act funds because of a requirement that students receiving the new Executive Editor: John O. Harney federal aid sign a statement disclaiming membership in subversive organizations. Senior Director of Communications: The collection of dog-eared HENE newsletters is the closest thing NEBHE Charlotte Stratton NEBHE/CONNECTION Intern: Michael Givens has to a storytelling grandfather, so to prepare this issue of CONNECTION marking Design and Production: tpgcreative, Boston, MA NEBHE’s 50th anniversary, I began reading. The specter of the Cold War aside, the story line is hauntingly familiar: a new Back Issues: Back issues of CONNECTION are accessible on the World Wide Web at technology looms, manpower shortages develop in this or that field, worries www.nebhe.org/connection.html. Hard copies of about teacher effectiveness and regional competitiveness follow. But there is regular issues may be purchased from NEBHE for $3.95 another feeling in those newsletters that seems quite foreign today: namely, the each; annual directory issue, $20. sense of a regional higher education enterprise in full-bore growth mode. For advertising information, contact Jodie LaBombard True, New England was bleeding manufacturing jobs at the time of NEBHE’s at [email protected]. founding, and the regional economy was stagnant. But college enrollment in the CONNECTION is printed in New England. region had nearly doubled from 1939 to 1954, and more were on the way: nation- ally, nearly twice as many babies were born in 1956 as in 1936. HENE’s editor CONNECTION is indexed and abstracted in EBSCOhost’s (who one suspects might have moonlighted for CONELRAD) asked in boldface Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier and Professional Development Collection, and indexed in type: “When our children are ready for college, will our colleges be PAIS International, the MLA International Bibliography ready for them?” and ERIC’s Current Index to Journals in Education. At first, of course, the answer was no, the colleges were not ready, and there weren’t enough of them. But those bygone newsletters also reveal a palpable The New England Board of Higher Education is a nonprofit, congressionally commitment to regional action, which found its medium in the young New authorized, interstate England Board of Higher Education. NEBHE raised alarms about lack of space agency whose mission for the bulging student cohort, commissioned expert reports, convened confer- is to promote greater educational opportunities ences, forged collaborative agreements, prodded, pondered, then prodded some and services for the more. “Our Plans Aren’t Big Enough!,” shouted the NEBHE president in a 1957 residents of New England. HENE editorial. NEBHE was established by the New England The plans grew. The number of New England colleges increased from under Higher Education Compact, a 1955 agreement among 190 at the time of NEBHE’s founding to roughly 270 today. Graduate and contin- the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, uing education programs proliferated.
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