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May 12, 2011
MCC in the News

Manchester Patch - Job listing service (May 6, 2011) - The Town of Manchester and Manchester Community College (MCC) are partnering to help Manchester employers find workers, and job seekers find employment opportunities...

Reminder News - Manchester Community College students talk about the killing of Osama bin Laden (May 5, 2011) - Manchester Community College students spoke freely about their opinions on the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan...

Higher Education

Inside Higher Ed - Who Controls a Grant? (May 11, 2011) - Long established norms in higher education restrict the things a donor may demand as a condition of a gift. A donor can endow a chair, but not specify who is hired to fill it. A donor can create a scholarship, but not name the recipient, and so forth...

Centre Daily Times - UMass Lowell Waives Tuition for Top Community College Transfer Students (May 10, 2011) - UMass Lowell has a history of helping high-achieving community college graduates go on to earn bachelor's degrees. Starting this fall, those students can do it tuition-free...

Inside Higher Ed - Community College Venture Sold (May 10, 2011) - As part of an effort to "get back to its core" business, the Princeton Review announced Monday that it will sell the business line it created last year to provide community colleges with fast-track academic programs to expand their enrollment capacity...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - State Higher-Education Leaders Join Push to Set College-Readiness Standards (May 9, 2011) - Public-school officials nationwide have been working for years to develop standards to ensure that high-school graduates are prepared for college-level work or to enter the work force. One problem has been, however, that until recently, people in higher education have taken a limited role in deciding what it means to be college ready...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - The Slow-Motion Mobile Campus (May 8, 2011) -...when Stanford's School of Medicine lent iPads to all new students last August, a curious thing happened: Many didn't like using them in class...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Across More Classes, Videos Make the Grade (May 8, 2011) - In some science and writing courses, final papers are giving way to multimedia...

New York Times - A Community College in Florida Works to Attract the Poor and the Presidential (April 29, 2011) - In any graduation season, Yale, Harvard, West Point and the like inevitably make the list of powerhouse commencement ceremonies that attract a revolving door of American presidents in cap and gown. Yet a community college in Miami with no trace of ivy and a policy of accepting just about everyone, even the hard luck cases, has managed to lure a trifecta of commanders in chief to its urban campus...

Finance Finance

New England Journal of Higher Education - Saving Pell Grants in an Era of Cost-Cutting (May 9, 2011) - ...Solutions to this situation are not in short supply either. Apart from those advocating complete elimination of Pell Grant support, officials have suggested everything from grant reductions to changed eligibility requirements...

Student Success

Associated Press - Conn. senator, governor helped student stay in US (May 3, 2011) - Two years into a fight to stay in the U.S., Mexican college student Mariano Cardoso learned of a victory last week - not from immigration authorities, but from a U.S. senator who had taken up his cause...He is due to graduate next month from Capital Community College in Hartford with a liberal arts degree, and he has begun exploring other degree programs since winning the yearlong, renewable stay from the government...

K-12 News

CT Mirror - High school reforms likely to be delayed by budget concerns (May 10, 2011) - A sweeping package of high school reforms approved in 2010 seems likely to be delayed for at least two years after the legislative committee responsible for deciding how they will be funded voted overwhelmingly to postpone the issue..

Government & Politics

CT Mirror - Negotiators quit for the night without concession agreement (May 12, 2011) - Negotiators for state employees and the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quit for the night late Wednesday without a concession deal that would halt the issuance of more than 4,700 layoff notices...

Hartford Courant - 'Plan B' Architect: Budget Must Be Balanced (May 11, 2011) - Even the author of the "Plan B" budget, which would lay off more than 4,700 state employees, thinks it's dreadful.Ben Barnes, secretary of the state's Office of Policy and Management, hopes the state employee unions agree to concessions so layoffs and cuts to town funding don't happen...

CT Mirror - Concession talks may be last chance for pension changes until 2017 (May 11, 2011 ) - Dannel P. Malloy's been governor for only four months, but he might never again see the opportunity he has now to achieve a top priority of permanently shrinking two long-term labor costs: pensions and retiree health care...

Hartford Courant - Malloy Issues Layoff Notices On Somber Day In State Government (May 10, 2011) - On a somber day in state government, the first employees started receiving layoff notices Tuesday in a process that could eventually reach more than 5,000 state workers under a worst-case scenario...

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