Manchester Patch - Kids Enjoy Their Day at the MCC Farmer's Market  (July 28, 2011) - The Manchester Community College Farmer's Market devoted the entire day to children on Wednesday, July 27, with tons of activities that kids and their families could enjoy...

Manchester Patch - Meet Bettylou Sandy, Owner of Bettylou's Gardening  (July 25, 2011) - "I left a corporate IT department to start my own business." ...you are also an adjunct faculty member at Manchester Community College...

Hartford Courant - Middle Schoolers Harvest MCC Community Garden, Make Dinner For Parents  (July 21, 2011) - Sixteen middle-school students attending Manchester Community College's Summer Junior Culinary Camp visited the campus' Community Garden last Thursday, July 14, to learn first-hand how locally grown produce makes a difference not only in their cooking class, but in their lives...

Hartford Courant - Malloy Appoints Six Members To Board of Regents For Higher Education  (July 21, 2011) - With 26 years at the Travelers, Lewis J. Robinson Jr., who retired as general counsel for Travelers Property Casualty, said he had plenty of experience with mergers and acquisitions. That experience, along with his years as chairman of the board for The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and as a board member for the Capital Community College Foundation, he believes, will serve him well as the chairman of the state's new Board of Regents for Higher Education...

Inside Higher Ed - Anxiety and Uncertainty  (July 27, 2011) - As the Aug. 2 deadline for increasing the federal debt limit approaches with little sign of an agreement between President Obama and Congressional Republicans, the uncertainty is growing at colleges: what happens to financial aid and federal research funds if the government defaults...

Campus Technology - Teaching with the iPad (and Angry Birds)  (July 26, 2011) - For some, the jury is still out on the potential of Apple's popular iPad tablet device as a learning tool...

Inside Higher Ed - A Partial G.I. Bill Fix  (July 26, 2011) - Veterans currently attending private colleges and universities that charge more than $17,500 in tuition and fees wouldn't see their tuition spike next month after all, under a change to the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill awaiting final passage in Congress. But even once that bill is approved, veterans using their benefits to attend public universities in states where they are not residents would still have to come up with thousands of dollars...

Inside Higher Ed - Separate but Equal?  (July 25, 2011) - When a women's college announces plans to admit men, the norm is for officials to talk about the need to broaden the pool of potential applicants, and for some students and alumnae to react with horror...

Inside Higher Ed - Does Performance Funding Work?  (July 25, 2011) - A little performance-based funding doesn't work. But a lot of it might. That's the conclusion of a recently published study examining the impact of formulas that tie state funds for public colleges to various measures of institutional performance...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - These Community Colleges Encourage Creative Teaching and Get 'the Big Picture'  (July 24, 2011) - When a major earthquake rocked Haiti in early 2010, Rebecca M. Evans and three of her Blue Ridge Community College students were left stranded just outside Port-au-Prince for two days...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Great Colleges Reap the Benefits of Great Workplace Culture  (July 24, 2011) - Great academic workplaces are filled with people who believe that their jobs are important to the college, that the institution is important to the community, and that the college gives them the freedom to do that job well...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - A Recruiter Offers the Humanities, and Second Chances  (July 24, 2011) - An unlikely audience has filled a dozen chairs. There's a 40-year-old man who spent most of his adult life in prison, a 29-year-old woman who recently gave up booze, a middle-aged guy who lost his job and everything else years ago...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - A High-Tech Library Keeps Books at Faculty Fingertips-With Robot Help  (July 24, 2011) - At the University of Chicago's new library, 70 students have summer jobs filling a chilly subterranean bunker 50 feet beneath the main reading room. Their mission: Load a million volumes into a machine-dominated warehouse that most library patrons will never see...

Inside Higher Ed - Tenure Across Borders  (July 22, 2011) - For many full-time faculty members who have not earned tenure, the prospect of conducting interdisciplinary research or collaborating across departments can be, professionally speaking, a risky gambit...

Times Higher Education - Just the job: Canada's students shift to the college fast lane  (July 21, 2011) - A national debate is under way in Canada about the value of a university education as students flock to vocationally focused community colleges and concern grows among the nation's universities...

NACE - A Position Statement on U.S. Internships  (July 2011) - This paper examines the characteristics of a legitimate internship and the conditions under which such an experience can be engaged on an unpaid basis...

Inside Higher Ed - Pell as a Paycheck  (July 28, 2011) - For a Pell Grant recipient at a college with low tuition and fees, the beginning of a new semester can bring a windfall: a check in the hundreds of dollars representing the difference between total financial aid and the cost of attendance...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Time to Turn Attention to a Different Debt Limit: Downsize Federal Student Loan Programs  (July 25, 2011) - I have spent much of my working life studying and promoting student loans. As a good liberal Democrat, I spent years arguing for the expansion of the old Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) which had its roots in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty...

Inside Higher Ed - Numbers to Say No  (July 22, 2011) - Finding the guts to reject a financial aid appeal can't be easy. Financial aid administrators face pressures from all directions, including students (and their parents) who say they won't be able to attend an institution without more money, admissions officers who want to ensure class sizes, and presidents who don't want to lose students to competitors...

Community College Times - Promoting education, jobs to teens through community work  (July 27, 2011) - Dennis Bona, president of Kellogg Community College, speaks to local teenagers participating in the My Learning Community program about the importance of education and networking. This summer, about 20 teenagers in Battle Creek, Mich., are getting a chance to earn five college credits and an hourly wage helping in their community through a program at Kellogg Community College (KCC)...

Hartford Courant - American Legion Awards Scholarship  (July 26, 2011) - The American Legion Auxiliary Department of Connecticut presented the Past Presidents Parley Education Grant Scholarship...

CT Mirror - Mentoring program challenges black, Latino high school youths  (July 26, 2011) - On a sunny Saturday morning, dozens of black and Latino teenage boys, dressed sharply in business suits, crowd into a college classroom, confident they are on a path to success that eludes many of their high school classmates...

Manchester Patch - Making Math a Priority: The State's Strides  (July 26, 2011) - The Connecticut Department of Higher Education has awarded a grant to UConn to help create math leadership skills among school teachers...

CT Mirror - Backers of concession deal struggle to sell its long-term benefits  (July 28, 2011) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says the challenge of winning ratification of a new concession deal is plain to anyone with his habit of religiously reading online comments. No one, he says, seems to see the disaster just over the horizon if ratification fails...

CT Mirror - Risk to 'no' voters greater in this round of concessions balloting  (July 26, 2011) - As state employee unions reconsider the failed concession package, the stakes are much higher this time around for nearly 40 percent of the state's unionized workers who belong to bargaining units that voted against the wage freeze sought by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy...

CT Mirror - SEBAC: Most, not all, rank-and-file to vote on new deal  (July 26, 2011) - Not all rank-and-file members of the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition will get a chance to vote on the new tentative concession deal with the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the coalition said late Monday night...

CT Mirror - Concession talks end with new tentative deal  (July 22, 2011) - The administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a new tentative concession agreement at 10:04 p.m. Friday, setting the stage for another attempt by a coalition of state employee unions to ratify a deal that could stave off mass layoffs and deep budget cuts...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Universities Start Effort to Extend Broadband to Local Communities  (July 27, 2011) - Twenty-nine universities across the country have started a project to extend their high-speed networks to surrounding communities. The effort, called Gig.U , seeks to spread Internet connections that are several hundred times faster than the typical residential connection...

Inside Higher Ed - 8 a.m. Classes  (July 26, 2011) - This piece in IHE last week set off quite the firestorm. It's about the felt futility of teaching the dreaded 8 a.m. class. I would have written it differently, but it raised a valid issue. Been there, done that. Hated it. And it raises one of those questions for which nobody has a great answer...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - A Welcome Mat for Community-College Transfer Students  (July 22, 2011) - Research shows that only about 10 percent of students who enter community colleges end up getting a bachelor's degree, even though surveys find that between 50 and 80 percent of incoming community college students have that goal. The very low transfer and completion rates are enormously problematic on a number of different levels....

Forbes - Five Communication Mistakes That Are Holding You Back  (July 15, 2011) - There's just something about communications that's harder than it should be...

Harvard Business Review - Make Your Company a Habit  (June 29, 2011) - What makes you effective at work? Perhaps you'd say it is your excellent communication skills, your deep background in your field, or perhaps your ability to think on your feet. Chances are, you wouldn't focus much on your habits. Yet your routines are a powerful force that affects your daily behavior...