Journal Inquirer - What To Do With Tofu (July 25, 2012) - When vegan chef Ken Bergeron of Berlin, former owner of It's Only Natural restaurant in Middletown, first gave up meat and considered cooking with tofu... The award-winning chef also taught a class at Manchester Community College...

Hartford Courant - MCC On Main Filling Sunday Zumba Void (July 24, 2012) - Need a Sunday Zumba fix? MCC on Main introduced Zumba Fitness with Eve Ann Mazur on Sunday on July 22 as an extension to its fitness center and hopes to build on the Latin-inspired workout system's already strong following...

Inside Higher Ed - Graduate First, Transfer Later (July 26, 2012) - Western Governors University is a favorite of the college completion crowd, with a competency-based approach that offers an attractive path to a degree for adult students. But now WGU is nudging its students toward graduation even before they enroll...

Inside Higher Ed - The Online Student (July 25, 2012) - The average student pursuing a postsecondary credential completely online is a white, 33-year-old woman with a full-time job and a household income around $65,000 per year, according to a new survey sponsored by two companies involved in online consulting...

Inside Higher Ed - Forks in the Road (July 24, 2012) - Large numbers of students at four-year institutions are transferring to community colleges, according to a new study from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Most of them don't come back, but that isn't always a bad thing...

New York Times - The New Community College Try (July 20, 2012) - THERE are too many worms. In a mid-Manhattan classroom, 20 applicants write their thoughts about going to community college on paper cutouts and stick them to a poster of a tree - multicolored, tapered leaves for hopes, square bits of trunk for strengths, squiggly worms for fears. The worms dominate...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Morrill at 150: Creating American Manufacturing Universities (July 19, 2012) - In the 2000s, American manufacturing suffered its worst decade since at least World War II. One-third of manufacturing jobs disappeared and manufacturing output declined by over 10% as U.S. manufacturing became less competitive internationally...

Inside Higher Ed - Assembly Line (July 18, 2012) - Potential "disruptions" to higher education typically portend a diminished role for the academy in workforce training, as students ditch college for, well, something else...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - College Degrees, Designed by the Numbers (July 18, 2012) - Campuses are places of intuition and serendipity: A professor senses confusion on a student's face and repeats his point; a student majors in psychology after a roommate takes a course; two freshmen meet on the quad and eventually become husband and wife...

Community College Times - Keeping colleges affordable and accountable (July 18, 2012) - Federal lawmakers this week are examining strategies to keep college affordable while ensuring that students are getting the education and training they need for available jobs...

Inside Higher Ed - Without Credit (July 18, 2012) - The University of Washington plans to offer "enhanced" versions of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) it will develop through a partnership with Coursera, according to the university's provost...

Inside Higher Ed - Turning Young Alumni Into Donors (July 17, 2012) - Colleges seeking to turn recent graduates -- members of the millennial generation -- into donors should connect with them online and show them tangible examples of how their donations will impact the institution, fund-raising consultants said at a conference Monday...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - At Libraries, Quiet Makes a Comeback (July 16, 2012) - The buzzing of smartphones, the clacking of computer keys, the chatter of study groups: Academic libraries aren't the quiet temples to scholarship they used to be. Personal portable technology takes some of the blame...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Public Colleges Feel the Heat From Gas Boom (July 16, 2012) - Shale-gas fracking is sure to bring all kinds of changes to Ohio. But what administrators and trustees at Ohio University are concerned about at the moment is who will control whether their land gets fracked...

The Wall Street Journal - This Embarrasses You and I* (June 19, 2012) - When Caren Berg told colleagues at a recent staff meeting, "There's new people you should meet," her boss Don Silver broke in, says Ms. Berg, a senior vice president at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., marketing and crisis-communications company...

Inside Higher Ed - Assessing Damage of Private Loans (July 20, 2012) - In a sweeping study of the private student lending market released today, a new federal consumer protection agency compares private loans to subprime mortgages and urges Congress to consider letting borrowers discharge such loans in bankruptcy...

Inside Higher Ed - A Rare Agreement (July 18, 2012) - Advocates for federal financial aid are greeting the House of Representatives' proposed budget for fiscal year 2013, scheduled to be formally considered today, with something unusual: a sigh of relief...

South Windsor Patch - South Windsor Teen Publishes First Book (July 19, 2012) - For most people, writing a novel is a daunting task that requires, among other things, time, focus, patience and energy.... Mazur, who plans on studying English at Manchester Community College either this fall or the following semester, is happy to have sold several hundred copies of her work, she remains remarkably grounded...

Inside Higher Ed - Why Not Baseball? (July 20, 2012) - Let's proclaim .300 as the target national completion rate for the nation's 1,200 community colleges. A .300 batting average is fine for baseball, a bargaining point for an even higher salary. Why not for community college completion...

Inside Higher Ed - Higher Education as a Business (July 12, 2012) - Academics have historically balked when confronted with suggestions that the education system is a business and should be treated as such...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - The College-Graduate Glut: Evidence From Labor Markets (July 11, 2012) - The price system works marvelously to allocate resources in our society, but in higher education, prices often do not reflect the true value society places on resource usage, as they are often distorted by a variety of policies...