Inside Higher Ed - Performance Pay for College Faculty (April 5, 2012) - A group of part-time instructors at City Colleges of Chicago will join senior administrators in having their job performance - and pay raises - tied to student outcomes, thanks to a new union contract with a structure that is unusual, if not unprecedented in higher education...

Board of Regents - Board Chairman Confirmed by General Assembly (April 4, 2012) - Board of Regents Chairman, Lewis J. Robinson, has been confirmed by the Connecticut General Assembly. He was approved by the Senate today and the House of Representative last week. The Board of Regents governs the state's 12 community colleges, 4 state universities and Charter Oak State College - the state's only public, online degree-granting institution...

Inside Higher Ed - How to End Remediation (April 4, 2012) - Depending on whom you ask, a remedial education fix on the table in Connecticut is either appropriately bold or a ham-handed flop in the making...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Build the Higher Ed Agenda with Us... (April 4, 2012) - This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first Morrill Land Grant Act...Not only is the region's higher education community reminded of its great tradition and leadership, it is compelled by the need to continue to play a role in the nation's economic recovery and to reconsider the vision of institutions in present and future prosperity...

Inside Higher Ed - Organizing for Adjuncts (April 4, 2012) - The plight of contingent faculty is familiar to many - they don't make enough money, there is little job security and many have to move from campus to campus to make a living wage...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Veterans Journey From 'Combat to College' on a Maryland Campus (April 1, 2012) - Rose Sachs and Joseph Bleiberg began working in 2008 on a program that would let campuses better help student veterans make successful transi­tions from the military to college...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - In California, Private Colleges Benefit From Public System's Shrinking Capacity (March 28, 2012) - When California State University announced last week that it would limit transfer enrollment next spring and wait-list all applicants for the fall of 2013, pending a vote on a tax proposal, it was just the latest piece of bad news from the state's ailing public higher-education system...

Community College Times - The changing and growing needs of the marine industry (March 30, 2012) - Increasing opportunities for skilled workers at the Port of Houston has propelled San Jacinto College (SJC) in Texas to purchase 13 waterfront acres for a new U.S. Coast Guard-approved maritime vessel operation training program...

Inside Higher Ed - Community Colleges as Fiction Fodder (March 30, 2012) - Forget campus appearances by President Obama and other politicians. A better sign that community colleges have arrived on the national scene may be their starring role in popular culture...

Inside Higher Ed - Duncan Defends Spending Hikes (March 29, 2012) - Speaking before the House of Representatives Education and the Workforce Committee, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan defended President Obama's budget Wednesday and brushed off attacks from Republicans who criticized it for being too extravagant and federally focused...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - An Ex-Soldier Finds a New Mission (April 1, 2011) - Matthew Reilly's roundabout journey to college took a painful, decisive turn after a nighttime crash in Iraq. In 2008, six months into his first combat tour with the Army, Mr. Reilly and nine soldiers from his platoon were pursuing an insurgent when their armored fighting vehicle slammed into a roadblock...

CT Mirror - Malloy's education plans take hit in revised budget (March 29, 2012) - The legislature's budget-writing committee poked another hole in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's education reform agenda Thursday, recommending a significantly smaller budget for his initiatives. The Education Committee earlier this week approved a bill that turned many of his recommendations into studies...

Inside Higher Ed - Tear Gas? Really? (April 4, 2012) - There must be something in the water in California. A few months ago, the world saw the viral video of campus police tear gassing protesters at a UC campus. This week, students at Santa Monica College -- a community college -- were tear gassed when trying to enter a public meeting to protest the proposed two-tier tuition plan outlined here...

Community College Times - Measuring marketing ROI: A new imperative for colleges (April 3, 2012) - As funding dwindles, budgets shrink and the demand for accountability intensifies, community colleges are paying greater attention to a practice embraced in the business world-measuring return on investment (ROI)...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Harvard by Lottery (April 1, 2012) - If spring is the season of budding expectations, it is also a time of educational hopes and aspirations as high-school seniors around the country await letters from college admissions offices. But like so many other institutions, four-year colleges seem to be running in place...