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Lou D’Allesandro 137 New England’s Schools of 10 About the New England Board Law and Medicine of Higher Education 144 Index of Institutions TUITION SAVINGS AND FINANCIAL 147 Index of Advertisers AID INFORMATION 18 The New England Board of Higher Education’s Tuition-Saving Regional Student Program 24 Financial Aid Opportunities for New England Students Wendy A. Lindsay CONNECTION DIRECTORY 2005 3 © Sodexho The right management team for your campus community Management Team Management Team Player A BRAND new way of thinking! ® azzman’s Cafe azzman’s J TO CREATE AND OFFER Exceptional catering! SERVICESOur THAT CONTRIBUTE MISSIONTO A MORE PLEASANT WAY Catering Services OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE Providing the ultimate WHENEVER AND WHEREVER in dining experience. Ultimate Experience THEY COME TOGETHER. 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This edition represents the 36th higher education directory OF HIGHER EDUCATION is published five times a year by the New England Board of Higher Education, published by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE). 45 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111-1305 W Over nearly four decades, the directory has provided a detailed overview of colleges Phone: 617.357.9620 Fax: 617.338.1577 Email: [email protected] and universities in New England—the region that can rightly claim to be America’s higher education heartland. Vol. XIX, No. 3 Directory 2005 ISSN 0895-6405 This directory serves two key audiences. For college-bound students and their Copyright © 2004 by the New England Board families, it provides useful information on each of the nearly 270 institutions listed, of Higher Education. including tuition and room and board charges, enrollment data and a summary of Publisher: David M. Bartley admissions information, deadlines and fees. For CONNECTION’s traditional readership of Executive Editor: John O. Harney policymakers, journalists, legislators, higher education leaders and CEOs, the directory Senior Director of Communications and Directory Editor: Charlotte Stratton serves as a reference tool, providing names and titles of key campus administrators, Staff Contributor: Wendy A. Lindsay institutional endowment and employment data and more. Design and Production: tpgcreative, Boston, MA Information reported in the state-by-state institutional listings in CONNECTION’s 2005 Advertising Sales DIRECTORY OF NEW ENGLAND COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES is derived from a NEBHE survey of and Marketing: Charlotte Stratton New England colleges and universities, conducted in the late summer and fall of 2004. Back Issues: Back issues of CONNECTION Readers will also find inside this issue valuable information on how to make college are accessible on the World Wide Web at more affordable. Look to pages 18-22 to learn about NEBHE’s tuition-saving Regional www.nebhe.org/connection.html. Hard copies of regular issues may be purchased from NEBHE for Student Program (RSP). Last academic year, the RSP provided 8,200 New England $3.95 each; annual directory issue, $20. students with a total of $39 million in tuition savings. For information on traditional Advertising rates are available upon request. grant and loan programs see pages 24-30 where NEBHE’s Wendy Lindsay presents a guide to financial aid and an overview of scholarship and loan programs available in CONNECTION is printed in New England. each New England state. CONNECTION is indexed and abstracted