Press Releases
December 2, 2009 -- BHEF Supports National Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 6-12
November 23, 2009 -- BHEF Supports White House Effort To Boost U.S. STEM Achievement
November 23, 2009 -- BHEF Supports Launch of National Lab Day
November 18, 2009 -- Time Magazine Names Four BHEF Members as Top Educators
October 30, 2009 -- Pamela Lessard and Alexander Sittig join the Business-Higher Education Forum.
October 20, 2009 -- Business-Higher Education Forum Releases Case Study on Exemplary Efforts to Increase College Readiness
September 30, 2009 -- Carnegie Corporation Honors BHEF’s William Kirwan with Leadership Award
September 28, 2009 -- Business-Higher Education Forum Urges Senate HELP Committee to Include Key Provisions in Education Bill
July 8, 2009 -- Raytheon develops first-ever modeling and simulation tool to help advance U.S. science, technology, engineering and math education
September 16, 2008 -- Business-Higher Education Forum Launches New Resource Center for More Effective Education Philanthropy
July 14, 2008 -- The Business-Higher Education Forum Releases New Report on Corporate Giving in Education
July 22, 2008 -- The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) to Build National Leadership Network to Improve College Readiness, Access, and Success
July 8, 2008 -- The Business-Higher Education Forum Welcomes New Chair David J. Skorton and Vice Chair William H. Swanson to its Leadership
August 6, 2007 -- BHEF Presents at NASA Conference
July 11, 2007 -- BHEF Hosts a Moderated Panel for An American Imperative on Capitol Hill
August 26, 2006 -- Business-Higher Education Forum Welcomes New Leadership (pdf)
June 29, 2006 -- Nancy Kuhn Joins the Business-Higher Education Forum as Director of External Relations (pdf)
February 16, 2005 -- Systematic Failures in U.S. Math and Science Infrastructure Threaten Global Leadership (pdf)
November 30, 2004 -- Brian Fitzgerald Named Executive Director of the Business-Higher Education Forum (pdf)
» August 13, 2010
President Obama Signs Spending Bill to Protect Teachers’ Jobs. BHEF applauds passage of the Education Jobs Bill.
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» August 11, 2010
Business-Higher Education Forum Statement on the Survival of BHEF Member and EADS North America CEO Sean O’Keefe
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» August 10, 2010
President Obama Cites Need to Restore U.S. Leadership in Higher Education; Names Three BHEF Member-Led Universities for Cost-Controlling Efforts. Calls on all college and university presidents to follow their example.
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» June 24-25, 2010
BHEF welcomed its members to Washington, DC for its summer meeting on June 24-25, 2010. Members heard from senior representatives of the Obama Administration on challenges and opportunities for education reform in upcoming reauthorization efforts and the challenges confronting long-term U.S. sustainability that demand strengthened STEM education.