Journal Inquirer - MCC graduates urged to continue learning (June 13, 2012) - More 800 students received associate's degrees and certificates from Manchester Community College during its 48th commencement ceremony Thursday. The 949 degrees and certificates were awarded to 809 students in more than 70 fields...

Journal Inquirer - High Spirits For MCC Grads (June 13, 2012) - Benjamin White of East Hartford shares a "high five" with spectators Thursday as he marches during the processional...

Journal Inquirer - Hartford schools sign agreement to run Great Path (June 7, 2012) - The Hartford Public School system on Wednesday signed off on a five-year agreement with Manchester Community College to run Great Path Academy on the college's campus. Beginning July 1, the school system will take over the day-to-day operations of the middle college high school from the Capitol Region Education Council...

Hartford Courant - MCC Maintains National NAEYC Accreditation (June 4, 2012) - The Child Development Center at Manchester Community College has maintained accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), which is the nation's leading organization of early childhood professionals...

Inside Higher Ed - A 'Stop the Clock' Penalty (June 14, 2012) - As colleges and universities have moved to make themselves more "family friendly" to parents, "stop the clock" policies have proliferated. As a benefit, a new parent -- female or male, although generally more women use the benefit -- can have an extra year before the tenure review...

CT Mirror - Connecticut colleges among the priciest (June 13, 2012) - If you are price shopping for a college education, you may want to avoid certain schools in Connecticut...Connecticut College in New London was most expensive college in the country and Quinnipiac University in Hamden one of the highest-cost schools after grants and scholarships were taken into account...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Shifting Landscapes, Changing Assumptions Reshape Higher Ed (June 11, 2012) - In 1852, Massachusetts became the first state to provide all its citizens access to a free public education. Over the next 66 years, every other state made the same guarantee... 

Community College Times - Businesses team with colleges to achieve workforce goals(June 11, 2012) - The Gap is teaching community college students job searching skills, college faculty are helping teach McDonald's employees English language skills, and NextEra Energy Resources created an apprenticeship program to help students transition into high-paying jobs...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - 'Dysfunctional' Higher-Education Policy Is Called Threat to California Economy (June 7, 2012) - The "dysfunctional governance" structure of California's giant community-college system and the absence of an independent and accountable statewide body to steer higher-education policy toward the state's work-force needs are undermining the economy...

eCampusNews - 'Performance funding' making its way into higher ed (June 2012) - First their budgets came under the knife. And now, the nation's colleges and universities are facing new scrutiny from legislators and governors who want assurances that scarce tax dollars aren't being wasted...

Scribd - The Big Picture College: A Model High School Program Graduates (Summer 2007) - Picture this: 100 African-American students sitting in ninth-grade classrooms. Four years later, only 40 have graduated. The next fall,20 enter college. Five years later, just four have earned degrees. What happened to the other 96...

Inside Higher Ed - An Earful on Private Loans (June 14, 2012) - Late last year, a newly formed agency designed to protect consumers in the financial marketplace asked student loan borrowers to write in about their experiences with private student loans...

Rivereast News Bulletin - Honor Society Inductee (June 13, 2012) - Manchester Community College student Claudia Malaga of East Hampton was recently installed into the Lambda Epsilon chapter of Alpha Mu Gamma...

Hartford Courant - Artist's Corner: Joyce Hodgson (June 10, 2012) - Joyce Hodgson of Manchester has enjoyed dabbling in the art of photography since her first class at Manchester Community College 40 years ago...

Inside Higher Ed - 2013 Budget Takes Step in Senate (June 13, 2012) - A Senate subcommittee approved a $68.5 billion budget for the Education Department for fiscal year 2013 on Tuesday, funding that would increase the maximum Pell Grant but falls short of the Obama administration's budget request from earlier this year...

CT Mirror - The cost of lobbying education reform: millions (June 8, 2012) - More than $3 million was spent lobbying both sides of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's education reform package during the 2012 legislative session. And at least one good government organization is concerned that not every lobbying group is required by law to report the sources of the money...

Inside Higher Ed - Civic Engagement and Online Learning (June 13, 2012) - Yesterday's post was about the contradictory pressures facing many colleges. Today I was confronted with another dilemma. Colleges are being pushed to increase "service learning" and "civic engagement" initiatives at the exact same time that they're being pressured to move online...

Washington Post - Scrapping college for all (Part 2) (June 12, 2012) - Let's resume the debate over who should go to college. Some weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing that the "college for all" philosophy is a major blunder of educational policy. Its defects, as I outlined them, include...

Washington Post - College-for-all crusade does more harm than good (June 6, 2012) - The college-for-all crusade has outlived its usefulness. Time to ditch it. Like the crusade to make all Americans homeowners, it's now doing more harm than good. It looms as the largest mistake in educational policy since World War II, even though higher education's expansion also ranks as one of America's great postwar triumphs...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Just Because We're Not Publishing Doesn't Mean We're Not Working (June 11, 2012) - The public is on to us. They now know our six to 12 hours in the classroom is for a week, not a day. And we teach for only 30 weeks a year if we can afford to avoid summer work. What was once just a running joke is now a serious question raised in op-eds, spread in viral e-mails, and brought before legislatures. Everywhere, it seems, unproductive faculty members are blamed for the rising cost of higher education...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - The Real Education Crisis Is Just Over That Cliff (June 10, 2012) - The various legislative proposals designed to keep student-loan interest rates from doubling in July are now so loaded to the gunwales with ifs, ands, or buts that the whole boat is in danger of sinking...