Republican-American - Gearing Up With Grants (June 19, 2012) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy visited Naugatuck Valley Community College on Friday to announce $31.5 million in federal funding that will partner state colleges and local school districts to better prepare poor and urban students for college... Manchester Community College and Southern Connecticut State University will help students in East Hartford and New Haven, respectively...

Journal Inquirer - Art to liven up vacant storefronts and businesses in downtown Manchester (June 15, 2012) - More than 30 artists will have their work on display at several businesses and vacant storefronts along Main Street...At the center of the arts revival is the Manchester Community College classroom and art space in the former Regal Men's Shop...

WUVN News - Manchester Community College and Hartford Public Schools Sign Agreement (June 6, 2012) - Univision TV ran a report on the signing ceremony...this report was broadcast in Spanish...

Inside Higher Ed - Follow the Money (June 20, 2012) - Public colleges must do a better job of measuring their efficiency and quality, said an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which on Tuesday released a report that ranks states on the "bang for the buck" of their public higher education systems...

Inside Higher Ed - Overkill on Remediation? (June 19, 2012) - Complete College America is on a crusade to improve remedial education, which it says is hopelessly broken and failing students. The group has had big successes in a campaign that is gathering steam, but some community college leaders say its rhetoric and proposed fixes go too far...

Diverse Issues in Higher Ed - Gateway Program Provides Pathway to College for 'At Risk' Students (June 19, 2012) - Josh Gibson tried to attend middle school the day after his father died unexpectedly from a heart attack, but, understandably, he could not focus on his schoolwork. The then 12-year-old Decatur, Ga., boy barely made it through his first class before bursting into tears. The teacher sent him home...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - As Land-Grant Law Turns 150, Students Crowd Into Agriculture Colleges (June 18, 2012) - In the front hall of the American Gothic cottage that Justin Morrill built in Strafford, Vt., hangs his meticulous, hand-drawn plan for its gardens and orchards. It dates to the late 1840s. Morrill, a blacksmith's son who never attended college...

Community College Times - Summer bridge programs have modest benefits (June 18, 2012) - A new study of developmental education "summer bridge" programs in Texas-designed to prepare high school students to move more rapidly into college-level classes-shows that students who attend the programs are more likely to pass college-level math and writing in their first year and a half of college than those who do not attend...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - 15 Colleges Receive Grants for Innovation in Helping Faculty Retire (June 18, 2012) - The American Council on Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on Monday awarded $100,000 grants to each of 15 colleges for adopting innovative approaches to helping faculty weather the winter of their careers. The grants will enable each institution to further develop its programs that support professors before, during, and after their transitions to retirement...

Inside Higher Ed - Making It Count (June 15, 2012) - Massively open online courses, or MOOCs, are not credit-bearing. But a pathway to college credit for the courses already exists -- one that experts say many students may soon take...

Lumina Foundation - CERIFICATES: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees (June 6, 2012) - A new study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that certificates are the fastest growing form of postsecondary credentials in the U.S., increasing from six percent of postsecondary awards in 1980 to 22 percent of awards today...

AACC - College Affordability and Transparency Lists Released (June 15 2012) - The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has just made available college affordability and transparency lists that were mandated by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. These lists are derived from more comprehensive data about college tuitions and other information that ED provides through its College Navigator website...

Reminder News - Manchester Adult Education graduates 60 students this year (June 14, 2012) - This is the first year in which Manchester High School has had an adult education program that helps adults earn a high school diploma... Mulligan said earning his degree "was a great experience. I would recommend it to anyone." He is registered for fall classes at Manchester Community College and is already taking an MCC online course for the summer...

Inside Higher Ed - Part of the Dream (June 18, 2012) - President Obama on Friday announced a new policy under which most students who lack the documentation to reside legally in the United States can avoid deportation and may be able to receive the authorization to work in the United States...

Inside Higher Ed - Pattern Recognition, or, The World at 16 (June 20, 2012) - A quick description of the world that appears before local sixteen year olds now: Paths to jobs that pay enough to actually want are less legible than they've been in generations, but to the extent that they are legible and you aren't a standout athlete, they tend to go through college...

Inside Higher Ed - The "What If?" Committee (June 19, 2012) - My college needs a "what if?" committee, but I'm not sure how to make it happen. Most of the existing committees are task-based. Curriculum committee, for example, approves or disapproves suggested changes to courses or programs. That's a necessary function, and it's fine as far as it goes. But it's necessarily reactive; it responds to proposals brought to it...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Here's a Diploma, With Ball and Chain Attached (June 18, 2012) - Frogs, as everyone has heard, will sit quietly in a pot of steadily warming water until they are boiled alive. This is not actually true. In reality, frogs will jump out of the pot as soon as it gets too hot, because scalding water hurts like hell. Similarly, anxiety about student-loan debt has reached a boiling point over the past year, and the American public seems increasingly inclined to bail out of the higher-education system...