By Kibbe, Cindy Like many of New Hampshire's college students, Colin VanDenBerghe, a senior, was planning to move out of New Hampshire - he had his heart set on California - after graduating from Plymouth State University in the spring. A school project, however, changed his mind.

By Cook, Brad In a small state like ours, college and university presidents can and do have influence - although perhaps not as much as they should. The importance of the institutions they lead, in many areas including economic as well as educational, makes their success important to all of us.

By Anonymous Helen F. Giles-Gee, Ph.D., makes history as the first Black president of Keene State College in Keene, NH. She was recently installed as the liberal arts school's ninth president after serving in the post since her appointment in July 2005. Helen F.