CT Board of Regents - Board of Regents Considers Modest Tuition/Fee Increase Recommendation For State Colleges And Universities (January 17, 2012) - the Board of Regents for Higher Education will consider a recommended modest increase in tuition and fees for 16 out of its 17 institutions, including all 12 of the community colleges and the four Connecticut State Universities. Charter Oak State College reviews its tuition and fees in June...

Inside Higher Ed - Too Many Hats? (January 19, 2012) - Four-year college and university counselors for years now have watched their budgets shrink even as their workloads increase in quantity and difficulty. The same is true for community college counselors - but, as shown by the second edition of an annual survey of those in the profession, they've also got a whole barrage of other circumstances that make their work even more complicated...

Diverse Issues in Higher Ed - Community College of Philadelphia Programs Provide a Support System for Black Male Students (January 19, 2012) - At the Community College of Philadelphia, two programs aim at low graduation rates among African-American males through the use of support coaches or mentors who help first-time college students inside and outside the classroom...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Note to Faculty: Don't Be Such a Know-It-All (January 17, 2012) - When Archie L. Holmes Jr. teaches introductory engineering classes at the University of Virginia, he asks his students to come up with problems for him to solve in front of them. He calls the exercise "Stump the Chump...

Inside Higher Ed - Student Work Hours: Up and Down (January 17, 2012) - The last 40 years have seen dramatic changes in the hours worked at jobs by full-time undergraduates -- with notable increases until 2000, and then a period of relative stability until a sharp drop in 2009...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Community Colleges Are Urged to Take Innovative Steps to Serve Immigrant Students (January 16, 2012) - Community colleges must develop innovative and customized approaches to serve a growing number of immigrant students, says a report released on Monday by the Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education...

Inside Higher Ed - Price of Success (January 16, 2012) - If low graduation and student transfer rates at City Colleges of Chicago don't start improving, the system's leaders could lose their jobs. That's because the formal job responsibilities of the chancellor, presidents and even trustees include graduation rate goals...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Just Like Starting Over: Advice for Faculty to Make the New Semester's Teaching Endure (January 16, 2012 ) - Sometimes when passing through a classroom building, I glance in at a class in session and try to gauge by students' faces whether the instructor has them engaged or not. Through their facial expressions, you can see whether they are caught up in the class or struggling not to drift away in their thoughts or electronic devices...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Ex-King of Campus Gossip Turns to Saving Web Reputations (January 15, 2012) - Matt Ivester became notorious on campuses across the country in 2007 for publishing gossip­-not about celebrities but about students-on Juicy-Campus, the Web site he created. The site was blocked by some colleges, banned by several student governments, and threatened with legal action by several students who claimed that defaming comments on the site had inflicted emotional damage...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - With NSF Support, Research Moves Into Science Labs of 2-Year Colleges (January 15, 2012) - Phil Longyear and his laboratory partner were just a few minutes into their experiment, but they had already gotten ahead of their fellow biology students here at Finger Lakes Community College...

CT Mirror - Regents recommend 3.8 percent hike in tuition, fees for CSU system (January 18, 2012) - The Board of Regents for Higher Education is recommending a 3.8 percent increase in tuition and fees at the four Connecticut State Universities and 3.1 percent at the 12 community colleges for the upcoming school year...

Community College Times - New regs affect students' ability to receive federal aid (January 17, 2012) - Community college officials are concerned that new standards of "satisfactory academic progress" (SAP) for federal student aid could deny some students access to a college education...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Students Offer Microloans to Help Campus Neighbors Start Small Businesses (January 15, 2012) - Small entrepreneurs typically turn to banks to finance their business ideas, but in a handful of college towns, they have a new option: Just ask the students...

CT Mirror - Solving the way schools are funded without pouring in new dollars (January 18, 2012) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants a solution to the "broken" way the state funds education without an influx of new money. As the task force he has asked to solve this puzzle nears completion of its initial recommendations, his budget chief has frequently reminded the members that more money cannot be their solution...

CT Mirror - CCM wants education reform now, even if dollars follow later (January 17, 2012) - Connecticut's cities and towns are hoping lawmakers will spend the next few months deciding to increase local education grants -- even if communities don't start to see the money for a few more years...

CT Mirror - Budget hovers on brink of deficit as Malloy's fiscal cushion erodes quickly (January 17, 2012) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's vaunted fiscal cushion has begun to erode quickly, and an underperforming state income tax is the chief culprit. Fiscal analysts for the executive and legislative branches agreed on a consensus revenue report late Tuesday that pushes the current budget to the brink of a deficit -- or possibly over it...

Inside Higher Ed - Handling Good News (January 18, 2012) - "How to Handle Good News" should be a handout given to every new administrator. It's remarkably easy to handle it wrong. Happily, I've had occasion to reflect on this recently. A couple of key projects are starting to bear fruit...

Inside Higher Ed - Basing It All on Graduation Rates (January 16, 2012) - The Presidents of the Chicago area community colleges will keep or lose their jobs based on the graduation rates at their respective colleges. This is an awful and great idea. I'd hate to be in their shoes, though...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Why I'm Not Preparing My Students to Compete in the Global Marketplace (January 15, 2012) - At a recent holiday dinner, a friend who happens to work for the State Department asked me if I thought my college students were "ready to compete in the global marketplace," and whether I had come up with strategies to prepare them for that work...

CT Mirror - Education Week grades the Nutmeg state (January 13, 2012) - First the good news. The chances of a Connecticut student succeeding when they leave high school are among the best in the nation, and the state spends more for each student than almost every other state after factoring in the region's higher cost of living, according to a national report card released Thursday by Education Week....