Keene State College Archives

MACDONALD: Keene State College Pres. Packs Her Bags

September 23, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Keene State College President Melinda Treadwell is treading off to another school after eight years of trying to fix Keene State College (KSC). She is packing her gotta go bags and heading to a new gig in Geneseo, New York, which is part of the SUNY system. I briefly attended SUNY Buffalo, and I’m familiar … Read more

MACDONALD: Keene State’s Latest Challenge

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Keene State College (KSC) President Melinda Treadwell was recently on WKBK’s Good Morning with Dan Mitchell to talk about where Keene State is and what she views as its successes and challenges moving forward. To understand it, we must first look backward. Keene State’s problems have been many, beginning with the campus culture that ignited … Read more

Keene State College Enrollment Decline Repackaged as ‘Right-Sizing’

November 26, 2018November 26, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Keene State College continues to have enrollment issues. But on a positive note, they’ve made that problem (sort of, kind of) go away by renaming it. The perennial decrease has been relabeled. The ten percent of staff the college had to buy out to avoid firing them outright can rest easy knowing they were ‘Right-sized’ out of their jobs.

Keene, NH Poised to Ban Sale or Possession of Nicotine By Anyone Under the Age of 21

November 28, 2018November 26, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The dreary drama of nicotine shaming has been on tap all summer in Keene, New Hampshire. But the show appears to have reached its third and final act. In late October the city published the draft ordinance banning the “Purchase, Use, and Possession of Tobacco Products.”

Do You Know What Would Be Unprecedented, President Huot?

July 15, 2024April 10, 2015 Steve MacDonald

The president of Keene State college has written a letter titled ‘Unprecedented.’ Allow me to summarize. Dear taxpayers. We need more of your money or we’ll have to charge other people’s parents more for the cost of what we are passing off as a college education. And in closing… We have a vision. To keep … Read more