Manchester Patch - Kids Day at MCC Farmer's Market  (July 21, 2011) - On Wednesday, July 27, the Manchester Community College Farmer's Market will be having activities for children, including free pony rides...

Beyond the Box - Community Classroom Profiles the Best. Teacher. Ever!  (July 15, 2011) - Last month, Community Classroom unveiled the winner of the Best. Teacher. Ever! Contest: Negussie Tirfessa, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Manchester Community College. As a followup, we asked Independent Lens viewer Cordelia Vahadji to interview her nominee, so that we could discover what makes this educator so inspirational to his students, and that physics is fun...

New Britain Herald - Manchester CC Baseball Cut Affects Local Students  (July 14, 2011) - In a move that affects students across the state, including several from the immediate area, Manchester Community College is planning to eliminate its highly successful baseball program...

Inside Higher Ed - Paths to the Bachelor's Degree  (July 21, 2011) - Bachelor's degree recipients in 2007-8 who began their postsecondary educations at a community college took almost 20 percent longer to complete their degrees than did those who started out at a four-year institution, those who began at four-year private colleges finished faster than did those at four-year public and for-profit institutions...

Inside Higher Ed - In College, Without a Home  (July 21, 2011) - For homeless college students, even the smallest details can become big hurdles: a $5 student ID, a housing or enrollment deposit, a place to keep a birth certificate or Social Security card...

Diverse Issues in Higher Ed - Forum: Boeing Executive Advocates Real World Experiences To Inspire Innovation Among American Students  (July 19, 2011) - Despite the increased time and attention being spent on raising standards in education, the nation's workforce still faces a critical skills shortage-particularly in the STEM fields-largely because youths are spending too much time with technology that deprives them of real-world experience...

Inside Higher Ed - Online and Incomplete  (July 19, 2011) - Online education is all the rage with politicians looking for ways to expand the capacity of public colleges to educate more students -- on a budget. But a new study urges caution to those who believe that online education is a panacea for educating more community college students...

Inside Higher Ed - Killing Peer Review  (July 19, 2011) - When a cadre of international scientific research powerhouses announced last month that they were teaming up to create a top-shelf, peer-reviewed free journal in the medical and life sciences fields, some called it a "triumph of open access" - proof that the tide was turning in favor of a once-radical movement aimed at cutting through the traditional oligarchies and turning scholarly publishing on its head...

Hartford Courant - Meotti Reassures Community College Board: No College Closures (July 18, 2011) - Michael Meotti, the interim president of the new Board of Regents for Higher Education, told community college trustees Monday that none of the 12 community colleges will close despite budget cutbacks and the reorganization of higher education...

Community College Times - Humanities should be key part of technical training  (July 18, 2011) - "These are the hands of a bricklayer. They are calloused and hard but they have given both me and my family an excellent living. Would you deny these hands . . . the opportunity to read a good book? To caress a book of poetry, or to learn something about higher math?"...

New England Board of Higher Ed - DC Shuttle: Court Strikes Down New Ed Dept Rule on Online Programs ... and Other Higher Ed News from Washington  (July 18, 2011) - The House Education and Workforce Committee advanced the third in a series of bills to reform the No Child Left Behind law..

Campus Technology - McGraw-Hill Campus To Make Resources Free Through Any LMS  (July 18, 2011) - McGraw-Hill Higher Education will launch McGraw-Hill Campus, a service that allows schools to integrate the company's course solutions with any learning management system at no additional cost...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Libraries Abandon Expensive 'Big Deal' Subscription Packages to Multiple Journals  (July 17, 2011) - In late 2008, the University of Oregon's library faced a financial double punch. The recession meant belt tightening across the university at a time when the rising cost of journal subscriptions had already put a strain on the library's budget...

Inside Higher Ed - Remedial Plus  (July 15, 2011) - While most two-year institutions struggle with the high costs and low passing rates of remedial courses, administrators in one Chicago community college believe they've found a way to double pass rates...

NPR - Rethinking How We Teach The 'Net Generation'  (July 14, 2011) - Few will argue about America's colleges and universities being critical to our economic and intellectual future. And by many measures, that future looks promising: Competition for places in the country's top schools is fiercer than ever, more families are willing to pay higher tuition, and employers are putting a greater premium on a college degree...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Community-College Officials Swap Notes on Common Worries and Challenges  (July 13, 2011) - Community-college administrators had gathered here at the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers for what amounted to a group-therapy session: to confess anxieties and offer encouraging stories to their peers as they discussed some of the major challenges facing two-year institutions...

Inside Higher Ed - Frustration with the Feds  (July 19, 2011) - In a tough budgetary environment for federal financial aid, with even the bedrock Pell Grant Program on the chopping block, anxiety is omnipresent at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators' annual convention...

Inside Higher Ed - Loans and the Deficit  (July 18, 2011) - For much of the last decade, the federal student loan programs served as a piggy bank as Congress looked for money to cut or redistribute for other purposes. The "profits" from lending existed mainly because the revenues produced (as borrowers with high interest rates repaid their loans) significantly exceeded what it cost the banks and the government to make the loans...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Illinois Tests a Financial Incentive for Transfer Students  (July 17, 2011) - Like their peers across the country, students in Illinois can save money by starting at a community college. But, because community colleges charge lower tuition, students who take this approach and who qualify for the state's need-based grant program stand to receive less money than they would have if they started at a four-year college...

Business Insider - This Email Got One Stanford Student A Huge Job At Foursquare  (July 18, 2011) - Two years ago, a Stanford business school student named Tristan Walker sent Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai an email out of the blue, asking for a job. Today, Tristan is Foursquare's director of business development...

Reminder News - Modern Art Show Features Young Adults  (July 15, 2011) - What started as just an idea among friends turned into a brilliant summer showcase for local artists in their 20s...

The Day - New Associates Join Weichert Suburban  (July 1, 2011) -Suburban Properties continues its sales team expansion with the addition of Nate Kenyon, Paula Odom and Melissa Parker to its Mystic office...

CT Mirror - Towns keep school aid, but budget plan cuts other education funding  (July 15, 2011) - Though Gov. Dannel P. Malloy kept a pledge not to reduce the $1.9 billion Education Cost Sharing program that provides school aid to towns, his budget-cutting plan slashes funding for other education programs, including the state's technical high school system...

CT Mirror - Malloy presses on with layoffs while hoping for a concession deal  (July 20, 2011) - Though Gov. Dannel P. Malloy remains optimistic that a concession agreement again will be presented to state employee unions, the administration is proceeding with layoff plans, having notified over 1,850 employees to date, a top administration official said Wednesday...

CT Mirror - Some unions might skip new vote on a new concessions deal  (July 19, 2011) - Some state employee unions whose members endorsed a previous concession deal might not hold a second ratification vote if a new tentative agreement now being discussed with the Malloy Administration is built around the same terms as the original, a union spokesman said Tuesday...

CT Mirror - SEBAC Lowers Concession Vote Threshold To Majority  (July 18, 2011) - State employee union leadership voted today to ease the rules for ratifying contract concessions, clearing the way for the unions and the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to reach a new deal to avoid mass layoffs and deep budget cuts...

CT Mirror - With Layoffs Come Cuts To Job, Economic Development Programs  (July 15, 20110 ) - In addition to cutting funding for more than 6,500 state jobs, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's new plan to balance the state budget also slices more than $25 million from over two dozen job training, economic development and tourism programs over this fiscal year and next...

Inside Higher Ed - 5 Myths of Remedial Ed  (July 21, 2011) - The laments about America's higher education system are long and loud: tuitions are too high, colleges are increasingly hard to get into, classes aren't available, and students aren't learning anything. Most believe that more can be done to reduce spending by getting rid of things that aren't a necessity. And remedial education -- the 'catch-up' work now required for the nearly 40 percent of students who come to college lacking basic skills needed to succeed -- is a prime candidate for elimination on almost everybody's list...

Community College Times - It's time to end the nightmare and pass the DREAM Act  (July 20, 2011) - Irasema was the best student in her mass communication class, but 20 minutes into her Monday morning final exam the normally cheerful journalism major had not written a single word...

Harvard Business Review - Nobody Has Time for Interns  (July 20, 2011) - Interns take note: energy and enthusiasm are no longer enough. You've got to bring something more meaningful to the table...

Inside Higher Ed - Asking by Listening  (July 19, 2011) - A former boss of mine used to say that the key to management consisted of asking "the second question." The second question was a variation on "why?" In his estimation, when confronted with "pushback" -- the approved euphemism for "no" -- your job was to ask the person the basis for his opposition. In theory, you could then get around the pushback by getting at the underlying causes...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Our Moral Conversation With Students  (July 17, 2011) - Most Americans have not noticed, but Canadians are still reeling from the June 15 riots in Vancouver following the Canucks' loss to the Boston Bruins for the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup. Thousands of drunken fans trashed the city's downtown, torching cars, breaking windows, looting stores...

BNET - 8 Words That Should Never Appear in Your Twitter Bio  (May 19, 2011) - I checked out a lot of Twitter bios when I was looking for a LinkedIn expert to help with a potential blog post. I didn't find an expert. I did find a lot of awful Twitter bios, though...