Manchester Community College - Manchester CC Names Mary Roickle Women's Basketball Coach (August 16, 2011) - Mary Roickle is back in the game. Manchester Community College has selected the former University of Detroit and Niagara University coach to replace Robert Turner Jr. as head of the women's basketball team...

Hartford Courant - Lutz Museum Presents: Cool Animals At The MCC Farmers' Market (August 12, 2011) Manchester's Lutz Museum will be at the MCC Farmers' Market to present a free program about "Cool" Animals...

Reminder News - Manchester adult education reorganizes, will start semester on its own (August 11, 2011) - After a 40-year association with the Vernon Regional Adult Basic Education (VRABE) program, Manchester is finally going solo...By breaking away from the regional system, Kearney said the BOE could customize programs specifically for the needs of Manchester residents, and create effective educational partnerships with Manchester Community College and workforce development and workforce preparation programs...

CT Mirror - Private colleges tell Malloy they face too much state regulation (August 15, 2011) - Quinnipiac University has been waiting almost a year to get approval from state officials to begin offering the first anesthesiology assistant masters degree program in Connecticut--and though two full-time professors were hired months ago, it may take another year to get the program running...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Women Value Higher Education More Highly Than Men Do, Survey Finds (August 17, 2011) - At a time when women are consistently outperforming men in college enrollment and completion, women tend to value higher education more highly than men do and believe it has had a more positive impact on their lives, according to the results of a survey that was released on Wednesday...

Inside Higher Ed - End of a Military Free Ride? (August 17, 2011) - The Defense Department is said to be considering changes to its tuition assistance for active-duty military members that would make students responsible for up to 25 percent of tuition costs...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Enrollments Plunge at Many For-Profit Colleges (August 16, 2011) - Enrollment at many for-profit colleges has fallen sharply in recent months, a reflection of a weak economy and increased scrutiny of the sector. New-student enrollment declined an average of 14.1 percent this quarter at 10 of the biggest for-profit educators, according to company financial disclosures and analysts' reports...

Inside Higher Ed - Romance vs. STEM (August 16, 2011) - When Lora Park was a graduate student in psychology at the University of Michigan, she used to hang out with a group of women in the physical sciences. And Park noticed that some of these exceptionally bright, academically successful women would hide their accomplishments from men they would meet, afraid of scaring them off...

Inside Higher Ed - For-Profits and the False Claims Act (August 15, 2011) - Days after the Obama administration and several state attorneys general joined a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing Education Management Corp. of violating federal law governing incentive compensation for recruiters, a federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a similar lawsuit against another major for-profit institution, Corinthian Colleges Inc...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Shifts in Politics and Policies Complicate College-Completion Agenda for States (August 14, 2011) - Meeting President Obama's goal of making the United States the nation with the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020 will be difficult for colleges but possible. The greater challenge for higher education might be keeping up with the nation's shifting political and economic landscape...

Inside Higher Ed - Making Clouds Less Ominous (August 12, 2011) - A group of 12 high-profile research universities is currently negotiating with commercial e-mail providers to create a standard contract that would reduce the costs and anxieties associated with outsourcing the handling of sensitive institutional data to cloud-based vendors...

Inside Higher Ed - Change for Chief Diversity Officers (August 12, 2011) - A new survey suggests that the position of chief diversity officer may soon see significant changes. The survey, by the search firm Witt/Kieffer, found that half of chief diversity officers at colleges plan to leave their positions within three years...

Diverse Issues in Higher Ed - Georgetown University Study Shows Higher Education Does Little to Close Inequalities of Race and Gender (August 12, 2011) - Dr. Anthony Carnevale is the director of the Center for Education and Workforce. Recent studies have uncovered the benefits of higher education, showing that college graduates continually outpace their less-educated counterparts in lifetime earnings...

CASE - Research and News of Note (August 2011) - Study: Social Media Use-and Strategy-on the Rise in Higher Education ... new study reveals that during the past academic year, 100 percent of surveyed colleges and universities reported using social media-and thinking about the strategy behind it....

Inside Higher Ed - A Graduate Student Burden (August 17, 2011) - For most advocates for student aid, the biggest casualty in the debt ceiling compromise reached by President Obama and Congress last month represented the least bad option: a change that would make graduate students responsible for the interest that accrues on their loans while they're in school but leaves Pell Grants and other financial aid programs untouched (for now)...

Diverse Issues in Higher Ed - Diverse in India: Chess Skills Elevate Student to Elite College  (August 15, 2011) - With the blessings of his parents, VAV Rajesh made a decision at the tender age of 11 to move to this bustling city that is considered the "Mecca of Indian chess" in order to become a professional chess player. Five years later-like a sacrifice meant to gain a better position on the chessboard-Rajesh's decision has already paid off...

CT Mirror - Malloy tells school superintendents 'We've got to do a better job' (August 17, 2011) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told school superintendents from across the state Wednesday that he will tackle a host of education issues in 2012, including a flawed school finance system, a seniority system that protects bad teachers and the failure of many students to learn...

CT News Junkie - Malloy Appoints Task Force To Review Education Funding (August 16, 2011) - With a large-scale deficit solved for the better part of the next two years, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he will focus his time and energy toward reforming the state's Education Cost Sharing formula...

CT Mirror - Despite high stakes, state relies on towns to police Mastery Test (August 15, 2011) - Despite the high stakes attached to its multimillion-dollar statewide school testing program, new allegations of cheating show that Connecticut--like many other states--relies almost entirely on local districts to spot and report fraud...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - With a College's Help, a Natural-Foods Store Brings a Community to the Table (August 14, 2011) - Paul Fonteyn hoped to accomplish many goals in his time as president of Green Mountain College, but becoming a landlord was not one of them. And yet, late last year, Mr. Fonteyn put down about $50,000 (plus another $15,000 for repairs) to buy a 90-year-old building on Main Street in this tiny Vermont town. That building has become the site of a new food co-op...

Inside Higher Ed - The Very Rough Art of Listening (August 12, 2011) - How many people in your professional life listen to you? No, I mean really listen. Not advise. Not compete. Not interrupt. Not use your sentences as a segue into their own maybe-formidable ideas. Not misinterpret what you're saying and then launch into a diatribe. If you're fortunate, you do indeed have a cadre of people you can mobilize as a sounding board around you - at work and even at play - when you wish to be heard...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Trends & Indicators 2011: High School Success (August 15, 2011) - The U.S. high school graduation rate rose significantly to 72%, after two consecutive years of declines and stagnation, according to a national report from Education Week and the Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center. The report shows the nation's public schools will generate about 145,000 fewer dropouts than the previous year...

Hartford Courant - Vote Reversal By Prison Unions Suggests Deal Could Go Through 2nd Time (August 17, 2011) - As the drawn-out vote on a labor savings and concessions agreement came to a close late Wednesday, sources familiar with process said privately they believe the pact will pass this time around...

CT Mirror - Unions pushing for approval as second vote nears conclusion (August 16, 2011) - With the second vote on a state employee concession agreement scheduled to end Wednesday, union leaders were making a last-minute push Tuesday to get members to approve the deal in hopes of averting thousands of layoffs...

CT News Junkie - They Said 'Yes' (August 16, 2011) - Union members said Tuesday they feel the tide has changed and are confident that when the votes are tallied Wednesday night, their fellow state workers will have approved a clarified agreement...

CT Mirror - Malloy ups pressure on unions as concession vote nears conclusion (August 12, 2011) - With state employee unions about to enter the final week of voting on concessions, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration Friday stepped up the pressure with its first explicit statement that layoffs will continue in bargaining units that don't agree to wage freezes--even if the overall package of health and benefit givebacks is approved...

Inside Higher Ed - The Stories We Tell Ourselves (August 17, 2011) - Yesterday I had a chance to catch up with an old friend ... and I realized that, in our very different settings, we're telling ourselves the same stories. She teaches at a law school out there, when she isn't doing other amazing things. We got to talking about teaching, and she made a comment that stuck with me. "Do you ever feel guilty about preparing students for jobs that don't exist? I do...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Why Checklists Work (August 16, 2011) - In The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, surgeon Atul Gawande argues that one of the most basic organizational tools - the simple checklist - can improve the effectiveness of teams and individuals performing complex tasks...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Everyone's Developmentally Delayed, Starting With Us (August 14, 2011) -Throughout my almost 20 years as a college psychotherapist and mental-health administrator, I generally adopted an analytical approach to therapy...

Inside Higher Ed - Using WordPress For Your Mobile-Friendly, Social-Ready Newsletter (August 11, 2011) - In 2011, newsletters have to be social, mobile-optimized, searchable and accessible. Email-only newsletter generally have high open rates, but their content is not available via the web. PDF-based newsletters can be visually captivating, but they are often not optimized for accessibility...