Manchester Patch - Former Spruce Street Firehouse Becomes East Side Youth Center (June 10, 2011) - The public safety youth center was unveiled on June 9 with a ribbon cutting ceremony...

Hartford Courant - Manchester Community College Inducts Local Students Into Honorary Society (June 9, 2011) Manchester Community College recently inducted local students into Epsilon Pi Tau, the international society for professions in technology. Epsilon Pi Tau recognizes academic excellence of students in fields devoted to the study of technology...

Campus Technology - Is the iPad Ready To Replace the Printed Textbook? (June 15, 2011) - After trying out the Apple iPad for a short period--about three weeks--three out of four college freshmen said they'd be willing to purchase an Apple iPad personally if at least half of the textbooks they used during their college career were available digitally...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Syracuse Sends Personalized Video Messages to Admitted Students to Stop 'Summer Melt' (June 15, 2011) - Incoming freshmen at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications received a different kind of message welcoming them to the fall semester...

Inside Higher Ed - Blocked Transfer (June 14, 2011) - The University of California and California State University systems have suffered severe budget cuts in recent years. Due to enrollment constraints, some community college students have had to wait years to get into a UC or CSU campus. Sensing opportunity, many private and out-of-state public institutions have stepped up their recruitment of California community college students...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Go to Community College, Earn a Bachelor's Degree: Florida Likes That Combination (June 12, 2011) - In early 2000, Florida's work force wasn't keeping pace with demand. The state decided that a then-novel credential, a bachelor's degree from a community college, was the solution. By all accounts, the plan is working...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - How educated are state legislators? (June 12, 2011) - The Chronicle has looked at where each of the 7,000-plus state legislators in America went to college-or whether they went at all. In doing so, we got a glimpse of how the citizens who hold these seats reflect the average American experience...

Diverse Issues in Higher Ed - IHEP Launches College Completion Coalition (June 10, 2011) - Under the guidance of a leading Washington-based higher education policy organization, the National Coalition for College Completion (NCCC), which is made up of civil rights organizations, businesses and student advocacy groups, was launched...

Inside Higher Ed - The New Perkins Loan (June 15, 2011) - The Perkins Loan program, which is scheduled to expire in 2014 and hasn't seen a funding increase in seven years, might have a new life ahead...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - New Gainful-Employment Rule Could Change the Game for All Colleges (June 13, 2011) - For-profit colleges, with their high rates of student borrowing and default, are the most likely to strike out under the U.S. Education Department's gainful-employment rule...But the rule, which will cut off federal aid to programs that fail to meet benchmarks for loan repayment and debt-to-income ratios three times in a four-year period, is a game-changer for all of higher education, placing new limits on student borrowing and creating new definitions of student success...

NJCAA - Easton Releases NJCAA Defensive Player of the Year Awards (June 14, 2011) - Easton™ Baseball, in conjunction with the NJCAA, has named its annual NJCAA Defensive Player of the Year honorees for each respective division of NJCAA baseball... Catcher Kyle Holland from Manchester Community College (Conn.) is the Division III Defensive Player of the Year.

Journal Inquirer - Focusing on Fenway Vernon native produces loving portrait of baseball landmark (June 10, 2011) John Ferguson knows what he's looking for when he goes to Fenway Park, even if he doesn't have anything specific in mind. And when he sees it, he captures it...

Hartford Courant - Scholarships Awarded By Christ Church Cathedral (June 9, 2011) - Ten Greater Hartford area high school and college students have received scholarship awards from Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford. The awards are made annually to graduating high school seniors who have been involved in the life of the cathedral and will be continuing their education. College students affiliated with the cathedral who maintain a satisfactory record are eligible for continuing scholarships...

Hartford Courant - Connecticut adopts wide range of education laws (June 10, 2011) - Connecticut students will get more protections against online bullies, the chance to earn credits by mastering American Sign Language and the right to pay in-state college tuition even if they are undocumented immigrants under newly adopted state laws...

CT Mirror - Five bargaining units ratify state employees concessions deal (June 15, 2011) - With 29 bargaining units still to vote, state union leaders are five-for-five in winning ratification of the tentative concessions-and-labor savings agreement they negotiated with the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy...

CT Mirror - Session over, now Democrats wait on two big bets (June 14, 2011)  - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democratic legislature made two bold wagers in adopting the governor's first biennial budget: that 45,000 unionized state employees will ratify a concession-and-labor savings deal, and that the $1.6 billion in purported savings are real...

CT Mirror - Malloy, unions clarify concession deal as ratification votes start (June 10, 2011) - The Malloy Administration and the state employees unions have signed a joint statement in hopes of dispelling rumors about how health coverage would change under a tentative concession deal being considered by 45,000 unionized workers..

CT Mirror - If union deal fails, lawmakers could face hard decisions on town aid (June 10, 2011)  - One of the few things Gov. Dannel P. Malloy didn't get from his fellow Democrats in the legislature's majority is the power to cut municipal aid mid-year in the face of a fiscal emergency...

Harvard Business Review - A Logo Is Not a Brand (June 15, 2011) - Lots of organizations come to our company, Advertising for Humanity, asking for "a new brand." They typically mean a new name, or icon, or a new look and feel for their existing name. Lots of people think that brand begins and ends there...

Inside Higher Ed - Who the Students Are, Part 1 ( June 14, 2011) - Over 90 percent of our online students aren't online students. They're onsite students who also take online classes. They use online classes to round out their schedules and reduce conflicts with work. In most cases, the majority of their coursework is onsite. The pure "online student" is very much the exception...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Some Union Members Are More Equal Than Others (June 12, 2011) - Do tenure-track and adjunct faculty belong in the same union? A 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruled that tenure-track faculty are "managerial employees" and not entitled to unions in the private sector..

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Creating a Meaningful College Experience in an Era of Streamlining (June 12, 2011) - A change is afoot at many of our traditional four-year colleges and universities, and it's a change for the worse: More and more courses are taking on the feel of online learning, even if they take place on campus and are taught in person by a professor...