Reminder News - MCC on Main ties college and community (August 23, 2012) - Manchester Community College opened its new Arts and Education Center, MCC on Main, on Friday, July 13. The center is located at 903 Main St., in the heart of the downtown area, and has been a venue for the college to present events related to art, music and culture...

Hartford Courant - Manchester Arts Center Grand Opening Sept. 13 (August 20, 2012) - The formal grand opening of Manchester Community College's arts and education center, MCC on Main, is set for Sept. 13...

Hartford Courant - Fore! Cougar Classic Golf Tournament Supports Student Life And Programs At MCC (August 17, 2012) - The Manchester Community College Foundation's 2nd Annual Cougar Classic will be held on Wednesday, September 26 at Manchester Country Club. Funds raised will be used to support student life and co-curricular activities at MCC...

Yahoo News - NJ governor signs university merger bill (August 23, 2012) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a major higher education reorganization bill on Wednesday, a hard-won political and policy victory that eluded two prior governors and is designed to create regional centers of academic excellence in South, Central and North Jersey...

Hartford Courant - A College Town Emerges In Storrs (August 23, 2012) - Students flocking to the University of Connecticut in Storrs this week will be able, for the first time, to say they are in a college town -- or at least the beginnings of one...

Inside Higher Ed - The Adjunct Scramble (August 23, 2012) - Most adjuncts at universities receive their course assignments two to three weeks before an academic term begins. As a result, they have little time to prepare to teach the courses...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - ACT Takers Make Small Gains in College Readiness, Report Says  (August 22, 2012) - In 2012 slightly more high-school graduates who took the ACT examination met its benchmark scores for college readiness in English, mathematics, and science. But the percentage who met those standards, plus the reading benchmark, remained at the same level as last year, according to a report released on Wednesday by the company that administers the college-entrance test...

Inside Higher Ed - Broken but Useful (August 21, 2012) - Remedial courses fail to prepare students for college-level work, but the remedial track may serve other purposes, according to a study newly released by the National Bureau of Economic Research...

Community College Times - BYOD: Bring your own devices to campus (August 21, 2012) - With the rising popularity of personal mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, an increasing number of colleges are asking students and teachers to bring their own technology to class...

Inside Higher Ed - Ready to Feel Old? (August 21, 2012) -Beloit College marks the start of new academic years by releasing its annual "mindset list" -- helping academics understand what their newest students didn't experience (except maybe from reading on Wikipedia) that may have shaped their professors. Some highlights of the new list...

Inside Higher Ed - DREAMers Deferred (August 20, 2012) - As young immigrants whose parents came illegally to the U.S. flocked to learn more about the Obama administration's "deferred action" program, which would allow them to stay in the country and work without threat of deportation...

Yahoo News - Despite the Possibility of College Debt, Having a Degree Is Still Better Than the Alternative (August 20, 2012) - Workers with no college degree or higher education were the hardest hit during the economic recession that began in December 2007, according to a new study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Trends & Indicators: College Readiness (August 19, 2012) - The enigmatic term "college readiness" is increasingly used in education and policy environments across the country...

Yahoo News - Analysis: New studies weigh college value and cost (August 20, 2012) - Two new studies offer emphatic answers to much-discussed questions about higher education: Yes, a college degree is worth it, but yes, it's the middle-class that's getting particularly squeezed with student debt in the pursuit of one...

Community College Times - Some community colleges are prioritizing enrollment (August 17, 2012) - Community colleges have long stressed the open-door concept, but budgetary pressures-along with the need to better manage enrollment growth and ensure students are on a path to completion-have forced some colleges to put limits on access...

Inside Higher Ed - Student Debt, Gender and Class (August 20, 2012) -At a time of rising public concern about student debt, sociologists are arguing that there is not a single pattern of borrowing, but that there are important distinctions in borrowing behavior by gender, class and other factors that illustrate how the lack of funds to pay for college is affecting particular groups in different ways...

Hartford Courant - Indie 'Stem The Tide' At Real Art Ways (August 17, 2012) - Geoffrey Locke wrote the script for "Stem the Tide" after talking to people about regrets...Shawn Baker, producer of "Stem the Tide" ... graduated from Rockville High School in 1995, went to Manchester Community College...

Inside Higher Ed - Selling Liberal Arts to 18 Year Olds (August 22, 2012) - How do you sell the idea of liberal arts to an 18 year old? Admittedly, the question scans differently at different institutions. At the snooty/exclusive liberal arts colleges, the sale has already been made. At a community college in a non-affluent area -- my beat -- the issue is a little trickier...

Inside Higher Ed - Five Reasons to Think About How You Work (August 22, 2012) - Why think about productivity systems at all? Why try to think about ways we can be more productive? Doesn't that imply we're not doing enough, or that we're wasting time...

Inside Higher Ed - Teaching to Fail (August 21, 2012) - What can we conclude when undergraduates bemoan, "How did anyone ever come up with this stuff?" Although the students might feel confused or bedazzled, there's one thing for certain: the instructor jumped over the requisite missteps that originally led to the discovery at hand...