Inside Higher Ed - New Jersey Comptroller Calls for Standardized Pay for CC Chiefs (May 31, 2012) - New Jersey should establish guidelines for the compensation of community college presidents, which varies enormously from institution to institution, the state's comptroller said in a report Wednesday...

Inside Higher Ed - Texas Shake-Up (May 30, 2012) - John E. Roueche, the founder of the most established graduate program for aspiring community college leaders, located here at the University of Texas at Austin, is moving in July to National American University, a for-profit institution, where he will attempt to create a similar operation...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - To Train Community-College Leaders, a For-Profit University Hires a Leader in the Field (May 30, 2012) - Forty-two years after founding what is widely considered to be the nation's pre-eminent program for developing community-college leaders, John E. Roueche is leaving the University of Texas here to try to start a new program at a private, for-profit university...

Community College Times - Ariz. college courts Southern Calif. Students (May 30, 2012) - For a few years now, California community college leaders have warned that continued cuts to their state funding and long waiting lists for enrollment could prompt students to attend college in another state, resulting in a lower tax and workforce base...

Inside Higher Ed - Facing Facts (May 29, 2012) - The college "completion agenda" has helped community colleges face facts about where they fall short. But if the focus on completion gets too singular, two-year colleges run the risk of neglecting student access and even the quality of learning on their campuses...

Inside Higher Ed - Back of the Line (May 29, 2012) - Lines at San Diego Miramar College's academic counseling center are often 25 students long, with wait times stretching to two hours or more. On busy days, the center begins turning students away at 3 p.m., three hours before closing time...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - National Network Will Help Apprentices Earn a College Degree (May 27, 2012) - For the hundreds of thousands of people who enroll each year in federally registered apprenticeship programs, learning begins not in a college classroom, but, for instance, in the belly of a nuclear power plant...

New York Times - On Campus, New Deals With Banks (May 30, 2012) - College campuses have long been attractive hunting grounds for financial institutions looking for new customers. In recent years, however, their efforts to woo students have gotten banks and other financial institutions in trouble with regulators. They are now effectively prohibited from providing gifts to students who sign up for credit cards. And the colleges themselves can no longer be paid by the lenders to steer students to student loans...

Hartford Courant - Thousands In Hartford Hear Bill O'Reilly, Other Motivational Speakers (May 30, 2012) - With his trademark political baiting, Bill O'Reilly charged up the crowd of thousands of people who half-filled the XL Center Wednesday for a day of high-profile, motivational speakers...Mariah Allen, a Manchester Community College student, said New York real estate entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran inspired her most. "She was just determined," she said. Allen said she tends to get discouraged. "I tend to feel like I'm down, and I'm stuck down," she said, and Corcoran's speech helped her to see how to think differently...

CT Mirror - State wins waiver to No Child Left Behind law (May 29, 2012) - Connecticut has won its bid for a waiver to the federal No Child Left Behind requirements, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced in a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon on his way to the state Capitol to meet with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy...

CT Mirror - Report: Aging workforce threatens state's economic recovery (May 24, 2012) - By the time the state's plodding economic recovery finally takes off in 2014, it could be too late to compensate for an aging workforce closing in on its retirement, says a report released today by the University of Connecticut...

Community College Times - Why do women resist STEM fields? (May 31, 2012) - As a society, we learn about the world and advance our well-being through science and engineering. The U.S. may be known around the world for its higher education, but compared to many other leading and steadily emerging countries, we lack a strong focus on educating scientists and engineers...

Inside Higher Ed - When Mandates Attack (May 30, 2012) - "But we didn't mean that!" Broad-brush rules have a way of generating unintended, and even unsupportable, consequences. Most of us know that intuitively when we talk about things like mandatory minimum sentencing, "zero tolerance" policies, or tax loopholes. The same applies to colleges...

Inside Higher Ed - Thoughts on Romney and Higher Ed (May 29, 2012) - At least he's not mandating creationism. Mitt Romney's plans for higher education thus far are silly, but not catastrophic. Already that puts him ahead of much of his party...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Is Facebook Worth The Trouble? (May 28, 2012) - Yesterday around midday I discovered that I could no longer post status updates to my Facebook page. This was no big deal, and would have represented the elimination of a major weekend time-suck, except for one thing. I couldn't figure out why this was happening, which sets off a little alarm in my brain that Something Might Be Wrong, Something That Might Represent A Bigger Problem...