Inside Higher Ed - Out-of-Office Office Hours (May 17, 2012) - Dawn Elmore-McCrary has taught exclusively online since 2004. But the faculty senate chair and English professor at San Antonio College still has to schedule 10 office hours on campus each week...

Inside Higher Ed - Outsourcing Online Coaches (May 16, 2012) - Public colleges without deep pockets can face challenges as they seek to ramp up online course offerings. For one thing, it's not easy to quickly recruit the teaching assistants or "coaches" needed to help faculty members manage larger classes and keep students on track...

Inside Higher Ed - Booms, Busts and College Ambitions (May 15, 2012) - Home prices soared in San Francisco in the late 1990s, boomed in Miami in the early 2000s, and rose throughout that period for many New York City residents. And many of the low- and middle-income home owners who saw the value of their houses climb in the several years before their children turned 18 used their newfound assets to enroll them in more selective (and more expensive) colleges...

Inside Higher Ed - The 100-Day Completion Agenda (May 15, 2012) - By the time today's infants are teenagers, the Lumina Foundation wants 60 percent of Americans to have higher education degrees or certificates. A noble goal, most agree, but one that won't be met next week...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - To Develop Student Entrepreneurs, Colleges Incubate Their Ideas (May 13, 2012) - John Herb came up with a business idea while he was still in high school. So when it was time to choose a college, he looked for one that would help him develop that idea: scanning people's old photos and creating a private social network around them...

Community College Times - Therapy clinic benefits residents and students in training(May 11, 2012) - First-year physical therapist assistant student Jazmin Orozco takes a firm grip on the gait belt and stands close behind her petite patient...

Inside Higher Ed - U C a Better Idea? (May 11, 2012) - If something is broken, people tend to want to fix it. But when the something in question is surrounded by other complex and potentially deficient systems, as seems to be the case for the University of California, how does one even begin to figure out to fix it...

Community College Times - Recruiting women for STEM careers isn't rocket science (May 11, 2012) - Using data from her National Science Foundation (NSF) project at eight California community colleges, Donna Milgram has identified the key factors for recruiting and retaining women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs (STEM)...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Student Loans Have Become 'Pawn in the Latest Political Fight' (May 13, 2012) - With the interest rate on federally subsidized student loans set to double just four months before the presidential election, efforts to avert the hike have reached an impasse, as both parties seek to score political points with voters...

NY Times - A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College (May 12, 2012) - Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signed on the loans, is taking out a life insurance policy on her daughter...

Hartford Courant - Phi Theta Kappa Chapter At MCC Wins Awards (May 9, 2012) - The Alpha Upsilon Alpha chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Manchester Community College (MCC) was recently recognized for outstanding achievement and earned three awards, including Distinguished Chapter Officer Team, at the annual Phi Theta Kappa New England Regional Convention...

Hartford Courant - Julie Larkin, MCC Student, Honored at Phi Theta Kappa International Convention (May 9, 2012) - Julie Larkin, outgoing New England Region President and Vice-President of Alpha Upsilon Alpha chapter at MCC, received the Distinguished Regional Officer Award at the Phi Theta Kappa International Convention...

CT Mirror - No applause for implementation of education reforms (May 15, 2012) - Only two hours after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law a compromise education reform bill to near universal applause, a disagreement erupted at the State Department of Education over how to implement a provision on evaluating teachers...

CT Mirror - Legislative session doesn't clear up uncertain fiscal outlook (May 11, 2012) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy downplayed long-range deficit forecasts when the legislative session opened in February, noting there was time for the state's finances to improve...

Inside Higher Ed - Fool for Higher Education (May 17, 2012) - Of late, American higher education has been suffering more than its share of the shocks that flesh is heir to. As a result, we will likely see soon a retrenchment in government-subsidized student loans...

Inside Higher Ed - Internships, from the Other Side (May 15, 2012) - Internships are a mixed blessing. At their best, they offer valuable exposure to the work world, and can give students both experience and a sense of whether the field they think they want is really for them...

Community College Times - Student success: the national agenda with a local focus (May 14, 2012) - All of us have been hearing about the importance of education in America. You may have heard that the U.S. is falling on the global education front. You may have also heard that many students are starting a college education but are not completing...