Manchester Patch - A Day at the Manchester Farmers' Market  (July 12, 2012) - The weekly farmers' market held at Manchester Community College provides the opportunity for the community to purchase fresh produce, homemade products, and other goods from local vendors...

Hartford Courant - Imagine Main Street Hosts Second Downtown Manchester Event On Thursday (July 9, 2012) - Continuing its promotion of downtown arts and businesses, Imagine Main Street is to host art exhibits and sales Thursday night at vacant storefronts...

Journal Inquirer - Main St. art center to open July 13 (July 9, 2012) - The Manchester Community College art and education center on Main Street will open its doors to the public with a series of events on Friday, July 13...

Hartford Courant - An Educator Turned Musician (July 5, 2012) - Jeff Pitchell had a decision to make: music or teaching. That was just over 20 years ago, and after performing around the country and the world ... Pitchell graduated from Central Connecticut State University and taught fourth grade at the Henry C. Dwight School in Hartford, as well as guitar at Manchester Community College...

Journal Inquirer - ECHN, MCC partner to offer health services (June 28, 2012) - Eastern Connecticut Health Network and Manchester Community College have announced an agreement that will give students and staff access to a wide-range of primary-care services both on and off campus...

Inside Higher Ed - College Isn't So Unaffordable (July 12, 2012) - You know all those newspaper headlines and television talking heads saying that college is unaffordable? They're flawed, a new report argues...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Percentage of Young Americans With College Degrees Increases Slightly (July 12, 2012) - The share of young Americans who hold college degrees edged up in 2010, according to Education Department data to be released on Thursday but provided in advance to the Associated Press...

Inside Higher Ed - Roiled Over Raises (July 11, 2012) - Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington State is considered a friend of public higher education, someone who has backed universities during tough fiscal times...

Inside Higher Ed - Where Are All the Adults? (July 11, 2012) - Colleges generally do a lousy job of keeping tabs on the graduation rates of their adult students. But that may change if accreditors follow the lead of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)...

Inside Higher Ed - Here's Hoping (July 6, 2012) - It doesn't seem surprising that someone who can set goals, visualize paths to achieve them, and summon the motivation to start down those paths would be more likely to succeed than someone who can't do those things... 

Community College Times - VA will own website GIbill.com (July 6, 2012) - The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will take over the website GIbill.com from a marketing company that was accused of using the site to direct military veterans to for-profit schools while purporting itself as a unbiased source of information...

Inside Higher Ed - Something Has to Give (July 6, 2012) - Public higher education in California may be nearing the breaking point. And the endgame for the worst off among the state's budget-battered colleges might look like the accreditation crisis that is engulfing the City College of San Francisco...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Defining Community Colleges Down (July 3, 2012) - Elite columnists and reporters, highly attuned to their upper-middle-class readership, rarely cover community colleges. Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews once wrote...

Inside Higher Ed - 'No Loans' Revisited (July 6, 2012) - "No loans" policies were the hit of 2007 and 2008, as many of the nation's most elite (and wealthy) colleges and universities announced that borrowing would be eliminated from the aid packages of students with family incomes below certain levels...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Should More Student Aid Be Based on Need, Not Merit? (July 6, 2012) - This is a tougher issue from the Wall Street Journal's June 25 report than the "tenure vs. nontenure" debate. The opponents here were Mark Kantrowitz and Greg Forster. Kantrowitz is publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.org, Web sites about scholarships and financial aid...

Community College Times - When a little gas money goes a long way (July 13, 2012) - Jeremiah Rotich faced some tough economical challenges while attending Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) in Minnesota...

North Branford Patch - NBPD Swears in Two New Officers (July 5, 2012) - The North Branford Police Department swore in two new officers, Corey Lemmons and Christopher Miserendino... Lemmons is a graduate of Manchester Community College with a degree in criminal justice...

Community College Times - A crash course in strategic marketing (July 10, 2012) - In your marketing efforts, are you achieving strategic outcomes-or merely outputs? This is becoming a critical question for colleges as budgets shrink and competition increases for those dollars on our campuses...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - There's No Learning When Nobody's Listening (July 9, 2012) - I decided to call the panel "Listening to Parents." As I began the organizing process last November, I was sure that "parents" was the important word in the title. After more than 20 years in teacher education, I had become frustrated and saddened by the attitudes of our undergraduate students toward parents...

Inside Higher Ed - A Simple Solution on Student Loans (July 6, 2012) - Every article I've read on the student loan debate seems to be missing one very crucial, simple way to completely eliminate student loan debt. It's so painfully obvious that it flabbergasts me that no one, I mean no one, has pointed this out...

Community College Times - Success hinges on a strong president-trustee relationship (July 5, 2012) - These are perilous times for community colleges. State and federal departments of education are pressing the nation's two-year career and technical colleges to be accountable while the colleges experience reductions in state funding and try to streamline services...