Manchester Patch - A Number of New (and Existing) Businesses Will Soon Call Main Street Home (June 28, 2012) - Get ready to see a lot of those empty storefronts on Main Street filling up in the coming weeks and months...MCC on Main, Manchester Community College's planned downtown arts and education center, will open at 903 Main St. on July 13. MCC on Main will play host to a variety of arts, entertainment and educational classes, as well as monthly events, activities and local happenings...

CTWatchdog.com - Manchester Comm College and ECHN Forms Partnership To Help Students And Patients (June 25, 2012) - Manchester Community College (MCC) and Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) today announced a new and exciting cooperative agreement that will provide MCC's students, faculty and staff access to a wide-range of high-quality primary care services - on and off the college campus - beginning this fall...

Hartford Courant - MCC Farmers Market: Grand Opening! (June 22, 2012) - The MCC Farmers Market will be hosting its grand opening for the 2012 season on Wednesday, June 27th from 1-5 pm. This is the market's 6th year in operation, and shoppers can expect the usual mix of delicious locally grown fruits and vegetables, friendly farmers and vendors, and great live music. Most of the produce is picked on Wednesday morning, so it's hard to find fresher produce anywhere...

Hartford Courant - MCC Technology Camps Invite Students To Change The Future (June 14, 2012) - Imagine if you could play your favorite video games without ever having to worry about the power going out. Or imagine all the places you could go in your car and how fast you could get there if you didn't have to follow the road if you could drive wherever you want, even over water...

Inside Higher Ed - Voting Rights for Adjuncts (June 28, 2012) - It's time for faculty senates and academic departments to make sure adjuncts can vote in their meetings and elections and hold offices, just as tenure-track and tenured faculty members are permitted to do, says a new report being released today by the American Association of University Professors...

Community College Times - The ups and downs of performance funding (June 26, 2012) - In 1997, the Washington State Legislature voted to enact performance-based funding for higher education institutions as a provision in its appropriations bill...

Inside Higher Ed - Missing the Mark on 'Gainful' (June 26, 2012) - Five percent of vocational programs fail to meet minimum Education Department standards for student success after graduation, putting them at risk of losing federal financial aid dollars if they do not improve, according to data released to the public today...

The New England Journal of Higher Ed - NE Won't Return to Pre-Recession Employment Until 2015, but Region's Education Advantage Could Offer Economic Advantage (June 25, 2012) - The New England states continue to experience slow growth and slow recovery of the jobs lost in the 2008 to 2009 recession. The main reason for this is the continued weakness in global and U.S. economic conditions...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Ex-Offenders Prepare for Work, and Life, at Community Colleges (June 25, 2012) - The national push to graduate more students excludes no demographic group, and those with lagging completion rates become particular targets of attention. Now some community colleges are zeroing in on another underserved population: ex-offenders...

Connecticut Board of Regents - Regents President Identifies $5.5 Million in Central Office Savings (June 22, 2012) - Board of Regents for Higher Education President, Robert A. Kennedy, today announced that through central office personnel savings totaling $5.5 million, at least 40-45 new tenure-track faculty and direct student support service positions will be funded across Connecticut State Colleges & Universities campuses...

Community College Times - VA clarifies college eligibility for veterans training program (June 21, 2012) - In advance of the launch of the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) this week clarified a rule that might have prevented some community colleges from participating in the program...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Researchers Are Rallied to Help Improve Remedial Education, Not Scrap It (June 21, 2012) - In recent years, developmental education has been the focus of much research and scrutiny, especially given the Obama administration's mandate that community colleges graduate five million more students by 2020 and the number of students who need remedial courses before they can tackle the course work required for a degree...

Inside Higher Ed - Senate Reaches Deal on Loans (June 27, 2012) - With less than a week remaining until the interest rate on federally subsidized student loans is set to double, Senate leaders said Tuesday afternoon that they had agreed on a compromise to keep the rate at 3.4 percent for another year..

CT Mirror - Connecticut Democrats urge quick action on student loans (June 25, 2012) - As Republicans and Democrats in Washington move toward a deal to keep rates low on a popular student loan program, Connecticut Democrats Monday urged quick action. In five days, nearly 7.5 million college students across the country are slated to see the interest rates on their Stafford loans double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - For Those Without High-School Diplomas, Federal Student Aid Comes to an End (June 25, 2012) - They're part of the 1 percent, but not the kind with a private jet and country-club membership. They're the relatively small population of students who don't have a high-school diploma but are relying on federal aid to attend college. For them, life might be getting more challenging. That's because starting July 1, students without a diploma or GED will no longer be eligible to receive federal student aid...

Hartford Courant - Hartford Center Provides Lessons In Cooking, Life (June 26, 2012) - Chrysalis Awards First Culinary Certificates for Free...Now that McMullin has earned his ServSafe certification, he plans to enroll in baking courses at Manchester Community College this fall. "Then I can join my wife's family business at a Florida bakery," he plans...

Journal Inquirer - Manchester Secretaries Union Presents Scholarships (June 26, 2012) - Manchester secretaries union presents scholarships Local 991, the union representing Manchester Board of Education secretaries, presented Manchester High School seniors Linh Donnell and Matthew Winters with $250 college scholarships... Winters will attend Manchester Community College...

CT Mirror - State retiree health care funds remain in cash pool used to cover operating bills (June 22, 2012) - A new report showing that funds for state workers' retirement benefits are still being kept in the cash pool used to pay operating bills intensified the partisan debate Friday over Connecticut's fiscal health...

Inside Higher Ed - Adult Basic Education (June 27, 2012) - Why do those who need the most get the least? Elite universities and colleges get far more funding per student than their less elite counterparts. Community colleges, which are even less elite, get even less. And adult basic education, which serves the very most vulnerable students, gets the least of all...

Inside Higher Ed - An Open Letter to Selective Colleges (June 26, 2012) - Dear Selective Colleges, You know I'm a fan. I'm a proud grad of one of your number, and I'm glad to report that my community college has a strong track record of sending students your way, where they've done markedly well. So I'm writing this in the spirit of constructive criticism...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Talk to Me (June 25, 2012) - Few students are as frustrating to a teacher as those who are bright, literate, and interested-but who don't utter a word in class. I was such a student myself...

Inside Higher Ed - WARNING: Reading Student Evaluations Can Make You Crazy (June 24, 2012) - Aaahh. It's evaluation season. Time for the tables to be turned on you. Yes, you, the professor. You thought you were being so clever by trying to institute some kind of an email policy: Telling your students not to email you at midnight and expect an answer before the 9 am class...