Hartford Courant - Federally Funded Precision Machining Course At Manchester Community College (July 31, 2012) - A federally-funded training program designed to launch students toward careers in precision manufacturing will be available at Manchester Community College...

Hartford Courant - Imagine Main Street Hosts Art, Displays, Tastings In Downtown Manchester Thursday (July 30, 2012) - Imagine Main Street continues its spotlight on the arts downtown with displays, tastings, a theater performance and other activities Thursday...

Hartford Business Journal - MCC adds dental assistant program (July 31, 2012) - Manchester Community College is adding a new dental assistance certification program this fall to help fill a shortage of those positions in eastern Connecticut, officials said...

Journal Inquirer - MCC brings artistic flair to downtown (July 15, 2012) - Manchester Community College's new cultural and education center on Main Street opened its doors Friday to several dozen supporters hoping to see downtown become a center for the arts east of the Connecticut River...

Inside Higher Ed - Who Gets the Credit? (August 2, 2012) - The granting of college credit for knowledge gained outside the traditional academic setting - prior learning assessment - appears poised to take off in higher education...

Inside Higher Ed - Deadlines Matter (August 1, 2012) - have never worked in any community where deadlines are as routinely disregarded as they appear to be in the academy. I can offer no explanation for why...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Borrowers in Default Tend to Be Unemployed and to Object to Repayment (August 1, 2012) - By and large, borrowers who default on their student loans are unemployed, have attended for-profit colleges, and have failed to complete their degrees. And many don't think they should have to pay back the money they owe...

Inside Higher Ed - Leaner, Meaner State U. (August 1, 2012) - Public university employees can expect two things from their universities over the next few years: new programs with an emphasis on increasing tuition revenues, and a whole host of "operational efficiency" initiatives designed to get more bang for each buck...

CT Mirror - Report criticizes for-profit colleges for high tuition, low graduation, high loan default rates (July 31, 2012) - Thousands of Connecticut students are expected to enroll in for-profit colleges this upcoming school year, and according to a new report, most will not graduate...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Less Choice, More Structure for Students: In a Tennessee System, It Works (July 30, 2012) - Motivational framed posters line the hallways here at the Tennessee Technology Center. "The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers," one reads. "But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." In classrooms hang inspirational poems with titles like "Success" and "Don't Quit...

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...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Humanitarian Efforts (July 30, 2012) - If you won the lottery tomorrow, how would you spend your time? Being a good social scientist, Jack Cheng, a UMass Boston art historian, went to Walmart, the new Peoria, and asked that question...

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...

Community College Times - Learning communities show promise in improving student success (July 26, 2012) - One-semester learning communities can have long-term benefits for community college students and can even boost graduation rates, according to recently released studies from MDRC and the National Center for Postsecondary Research...

Inside Higher Ed - A Summer Without Pell (August 2, 2012) - By the standards of most federal financial aid programs, the year-round Pell Grant had a short and uneventful life...

Hartford Courant - Two Receive Promotions At Cronin (July 29, 2012) - Jeannine Bradley of Cromwell has been promoted from assistant accounting manager to accounting manager. Bradley has been with Cronin since 1981, when she started out as a bookkeeper. She holds an associate degree from the Morse School of Business and Manchester Community College...

Hartford Courant - August Art Exhibit At Suffield Library (July 26, 2012) - The William Pinney Gallery of Suffield's Kent Memorial Library will feature the work of East Granby artist John J. Magans in August. Magans is the owner of "JJ Mat & Frame" in East Granby. The artist has painted for more than 10 years, with formal training at Asnuntuck College and Manchester Community College...

Journal Inquirer - MCC student wins small business prizes (July 16, 2012) - A Hebron resident and Manchester Community College student has taken top prizes in two recent collegiate entrepreneurial competitions. The man, Gregory Stevens, is enrolled in a program at the college that helps students get on the fast track to creating a small business...

Inside Higher Ed - Or, I could blame "lower ed" . . . (August 1, 2012) - It's probably a little bit (but only a little bit) unfair of me to lay blame for the cultural immaturity that is consumerism at the door of American higher education...

Community College Times - Community colleges prove their financial, economic worth(July 31, 2012) - College graduation ceremonies were once a time for celebration. Today, many students receive their four-year degree with more than $80,000 in debt and no prospects of a good job...

Inside Higher Ed - The Last Future (July 31, 2012) - I'm just old enough to remember when evening classes were the hotbed of enrollment growth. Back in the late 90's, when the economy was booming, many employers had programs that paid for employees to take classes at night...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - In the Facebook Era, Students Tell You Everything (July 29, 2012) - The impact of Facebook on the college classroom goes far beyond technological innovations and the ability to build relationships...