Hartford Business Journal - MCC program inspires entrepreneurs (August 13, 2012) - Hebron resident Gregory Stevens stumbled along the way to his professional career until discovering Manchester Community College's entrepreneurship program...

Hartford Courant - Dental Assistant Training To Help Fill Need (August 12, 2012) - esponding to high demand throughout eastern Connecticut, a new program dedicated to training dental assistants is accepting its first class of students at Manchester Community College this fall. Based in a state-of-the-art training facility on the MCC campus...

Hartford Courant - Kids Day At MCC Farmers Market! (August 10, 2012) - The Lutz Children's Museum will be visiting MCC's Farmers Market on Wednesday, Aug. 8 from 2 to 3 p.m., presenting a special educational hands-on program for children featuring live animals, including a tortoise, a lizard, and a snake...

Journal Inquirer - MCC teaching sustainable food basics (August 9, 2012) - Manchester Community College is offering a course that teaches students the basics of healthy and environmentally friendly food service...

Community College Times - Training to weld for future space missions (August 15, 2012) - Bolstered by Curiosity-the one-ton NASA rover that earlier this month gently and precisely landed on Mars-Amber Gell is confident that humans will one day visit the red planet. In fact, she hopes to be on the team that may make that possible...

Inside Higher Ed - Fostering College Success (August 15, 2012) - Henry Pennerman began attending California State University at San Marcos in 2003. Having spent part of his youth in foster care, he said there were no programs available for students like himself, fresh out of the foster system and thrust into yet another new environment...

Inside Higher Ed - A Degree Still Matters (August 15, 2012) - Stories abound of college graduates working at Starbucks, living at home and facing an uncertain economic future. And many of these stories have led to increased questioning of the value of a college degree...

Inside Higher Ed - Texas Gets an Incomplete (August 14, 2012) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has terminated a high-profile college completion grant in Texas, a decision one community college leader in the state called abrupt and surprising...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Real-Time Jobs Data Show Community Colleges What Employers Need Now (August 13, 2012) - When Kate F. Kitchener set out to design a green-jobs training program at LaGuardia Community College, she began by taking the pulse of local industry, but not in the usual way...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - At Calif. Public Colleges, Dreams Deferred (August 13, 2012) - Edgar Guzman is the sort of person you'd want greeting the public, even if just briefly through a carry-out window. Tidy and poised in his maroon uniform shirt and baseball cap, he speaks with care and answers in the affirmative with a crisp "Correct...

Inside Higher Ed - Net Price vs. Out-of-Pocket (August 14, 2012) - Prospective students wanting to know how much a given college will cost them might end up putting their family income and grades into a net price calculator, meant to provide a personalized idea of about how much they will pay after grants and scholarships...

West Hartford Patch - Wolcott Teacher's Third Novel Explores Imagination in All of Us (August 10, 2012) - This has been a fruitful summer for Wolcott Elementary School teacher and author Matthew Dicks...He worked his way through college - first at Manchester Community College, then Trinity College and simultaneously at Saint Joseph College, where he earned a teaching degree...

Glastonbury Citizen - YFS Presents "The Wiz" Starting Tonight (August 8, 2012) - Starting tonight, Glastonbury Youth & Family Services (YFS) will present its summer musical...2011 GHS grad Robert Kelly, who will enter his second year at Manchester Community College this fall, will play the Lion...

Inside Higher Ed - The Late Registration Two Step (August 15, 2012) - Say the word "August" to any experienced administrator, and you'll see an involuntary shudder. Sometimes it's followed by a low, guttural moan, or sometimes by an abrupt curl into a fetal position. We've even been known to run for the nearest hills, crossing streams to hide the scent. August is the season of shoehorning students into remaining sections...

Community College Times - From adjunct to full time: My first-year experience (August 13, 2012) - Prior to this past academic year, I spent the last 10 years teaching at a community college as an adjunct instructor. I experienced issues that many adjunct instructors have to deal with on a day-to-day basis...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - GHOST Campus (August 13, 2012) - At its peak population-about 400 students and 50 full-time professors-Bard College at Simon's Rock resembles a small ant colony. Everybody's busy. Everybody's going somewhere. Midsemester, when everybody's here, you walk down the street and know almost every face and every name...

Community College Times - Hard deadlines for course registration (August 10, 2012) - Almost every institution of higher education engages in late registration. But evidence is mounting that the practice, originally intended to keep the doors of opportunity open for students as long as possible, wreaks havoc on the ability of colleges to achieve the goals of the emerging completion agenda...