June 3
FRAN PURCELL
SENIOR LECTURER; FACULTY DIRECTOR,
ONLINE MASTER’S IN EDUCATION
Students at community colleges across Massachusetts can, in part, thank Fran Purcell for making cost and procedures better. Purcell serves on the Board of Trustees at North Shore Community College, where she chairs their student success committee. Recently, this included advocating on behalf of the recent statewide initiatives to provide free community college for students of any age and income level in Massachusetts who have not yet earned a bachelor’s degree. The work grew out of previous community college work she did as the associate commissioner for academic and P–16 policy at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. read more