Inside Higher Ed - Completion Conundrum (December 8, 2011) - The state funding outlook for community colleges is too bleak for the completion agenda to succeed, according to a national survey of statewide leaders of two-year institutions...

Inside Higher Ed - Overload Economics (December 8, 2011) - What can a college do when enrollments exceed faculty capacity to teach sections and state budgets are limited? One answer can be overload pay, in which faculty members are paid more to teach extra sections, rather than, for example, hiring more instructors...

Inside Higher Ed - Questions of Quality (December 7, 2011) - Students at for-profit colleges typically have less money and academic preparation than do their peers at other institutions. Those and other risk factors muddy the debate over the sector's performance, and make it hard to compare with public and private nonprofit colleges...

Hartford Business Journal - Malloy rounds out CT regents appointees (December 5, 2011) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy named his three remaining appointments to the Board of Regents for Higher Education, the newly panel to oversee the four regional state universities, the community college system and Charter Oak State College...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - CUNY Proposes a Leaner Core Curriculum, to Faculty's Dismay (December 2, 2011) - The committee charged with designing a new core curriculum for the City University of New York released on Thursday its final recommendations, and faculty leaders quickly faulted both the substance of the proposal and the process used to produce it...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Colleges Are Part of a $4-Billion Energy-Efficiency Program (December 2, 2011) - The White House has announced that some college and university buildings will be part of a $4-billion program to improve energy efficiency over the next two years...

Inside Higher Ed - Tracking Quality at 2-Year Colleges (December 1, 2011) - Community colleges have long argued they are fundamentally different from four-year institutions and should be judged by different yardsticks. Now the sector has created what it says are fair measures of its members' performance, with the release Wednesday of the Voluntary Framework of Accountability from the American Association of Community Colleges...

Community College Times - Community colleges are key to nation's prosperity (December 1, 2011) - Investments in job training programs are essential to the nation's prosperity, and community colleges must play a significant role in preparing workers for emerging jobs...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Research Group Proposes New Strategies for Worker Training (November 30, 2011) - New grants to pay for job training and a program to retrain displaced workers were among several new policies to increase employment and wages that researchers proposed at a meeting here on Wednesday. Academics from several universities and think tanks collaborated on the recommendations, which were published in reports by the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project, which specializes in research on employment and economic policy...

Community College Times - Fighting Pell Grant fraud (December 7, 2011) - Recent media reports of people posing as students to swindle Pell Grant funds have focused attention on student aid fraud, but in most cases community colleges have thwarted such attempts through myriad methods...

Hartford Courant - ARTIST'S CORNER: RYAN KING (December 4, 2011) - Ryan King, of Somers, is 17 years old, attending his first year of college at Manchester Community College. He is majoring in the visual fine arts and plans to get his associate's degree at MCC and then go to an art school for his bachelor's degree...

Wethersfield Life - New president Beaulieu takes the reins at Wethersfield Community Television (November 1, 2011) - In the summer of 2010 Rick Garrey and Ed Zambrello were looking for someone to take over running Wethersfield Community Television... Eileen Beaulieu... she had some time to pursue an interest in television production that she had developed through communications courses she had taken at Manchester Community College...

CT Mirror - Defining education -- Does it include early education? (December 8, 2011) - There's agreement that too few children in Connecticut have access to quality early education programs, but the Malloy administration and advocates are butting heads on how to get to a near-universal system...

CT Mirror - State pledge to meet all teacher pension costs means big budget increases (December 2, 2011) - Just four years after the state borrowed $2 billion to shore up the troubled retired teachers' pension fund, another infusion of state money will be necessary to cope with the hit the fund took during the recession...

Inside Higher Ed - The Federal Role in Pricing (December 5, 2011) - Persistently rising college tuitions, high spending per student, and mounting student debt burdens have re-emerged as key issues in Washington...

CT Mirror - As school financing members submit laundry list of recommendations, Malloy asks for 'bold' recommendations (December 2, 2011) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wrote Thursday that he is looking for "bold" changes to the way the state's schools are funded, and members of the panel he has tasked with that responsibility have begun to compile a laundry list of changes some of them would like to see...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Fund-Raising Tip: Funny Brings In Money (November 27, 2011) - Colleges can sure take themselves seriously. They are important places, filled with important people, exploring important ideas, and not a lot is funny about that. Working to attract and retain students, colleges devote extraordinary effort to making sure that people know just how serious they are about education...