Hartford Courant - Grants To Help Student Veterans And Service Members At Manchester Community College (August 27, 2012) - Grants to Manchester Community College from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving will be used to help veterans and service members attending the school, according to a news release...

Manchester Patch - English Professor at MCC Receives 'Outstanding Woman of the Year Award' (August 26, 2012) - Rae Strickland, professor of English at Manchester Community College, recently received the 2012 Outstanding Woman of the Year Award from the MCC Women's Caucus...

Hartford Courant - Students Go Green At MCC Tech Camp (August 26, 2012) - Cars without wheels were moving freely over the ground, and a wide variety of things electric were humming along under solar power as 64 high-achieving students, grade levels 5 through 8, spent time on the Manchester Community College campus this summer learning how they can use technology to help change the future...

State of Connecticut - Gov. Malloy Highlights New College Readiness And Completion Law (August 29, 2012) - Governor Dannel P. Malloy, joined by legislators and state higher education officials today at Norwalk Community College for a ceremonial bill signing, said that a new state law will add extra support for college students who need help in their regular courses and ensure that graduating high school seniors are better prepared for the rigors of higher education...

Hartford Business Journal - Parents to College Kids: Live at Home, Get a Job (August 29, 2012) - Parents are doing whatever they can to send their kids to college without leaving them drowning in debt upon graduation...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Behavior Problems (Not Only Among Students) (August 29, 2012) - As we begin another semester, many of us are finalizing our syllabi and making decisions not only about what we will teach, but also about how we will manage students' behavior problems...

Community College Times - Colleges Feel the Financial Strain in Job Training (August 29, 2012) -Community colleges often receive kudos for their job training efforts, especially in the current economic climate, but fewer public dollars to support those efforts are increasingly straining colleges...

Inside Higher Ed - Helicopter App? (August 29, 2012) - About half of the students who fail to graduate college in six years never even make it to their second year, according to Department of Education data. Now, a new app is aiming to help make that college transition more successful for students - by involving their parents...

Higher Ed Morning - College Report Card: How'd Your State Score? (August 27, 2012) - Check out your state's overall grade when it comes to public universities. Institute for a Competitive Workforce graded two and four year public schools...

Community College Times - AACC's 21st-Century Initiative Ready for Next Phase (August 28, 2012) - The recommendations have been laid out and now it's time to roll up sleeves and discuss ways that community colleges can redesign, reinvent and reset themselves to serve the needs of students today and in the decade to come...

Inside Higher Ed - Law of Averages (August 27, 2012) - Most public high school graduates from Chicago who attend the city's community colleges increase their odds of eventually earning a bachelor's degree, according to a study that challenges a fairly common belief that two-year colleges are often dead ends for students who could have aimed higher...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Young Women Are More Likely Than Men to Aspire to College, and to Graduate (August 28, 2012) - Female high-school students are more likely to aspire to attend college than are their male counterparts, and the young women enroll in college, persist, and graduate from it at higher rates as well, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics... 

Inside Higher Ed - Calculating a Degree's Value (August 28, 2012) - As politicians, pundits and others continue a debate about the economic worth of a college degree, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf believes a unique database can give Congress an idea of what value, exactly, its credentials add...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Can the Writing Center Reverse the New Racism? (August 24, 2012) - Writing center workers are agents of change whose practices might reverse the resegregation and new racism occurring in our country...

Inside Higher Ed - Cost of Free Money (August 30, 2012) - It takes a lot of money to make college inexpensive. Administrators at Long Island University, a private university in New York with multiple campuses, had to make budget cuts and are dealing with faculty pushback after the financial aid awarded by one of the college's two main campuses exceeded the budgeted amount...

Inside Higher Ed - Don't Panic ... Yet (August 27, 2012) - College administrators are justifiably worried about whether they're going to be able to balance their budgets in a changing economic landscape, and a survey released by Sallie Mae last month didn't do much to put them at ease...

Hartford Courant - Some Schools Now Tell Students To 'Bring Their Own Technology'  (August 26, 2012) - Not so long ago, most school districts had very strict policies: Leave your cellphones and laptops at home. The schools would provide any technology a student needed. Often, there wasn't much...

Inside Higher Ed - A Call to Conservatives (August 30, 2012) - For generations, American conservatives have had an uneasy relationship with higher education. Although most recognize the importance of a college degree for employment...

Inside Higher Ed - I Can't Spell (August 29, 2012) - We're into the second week of the semester here, and this year I have decided, for the first time, to allow my Freshman Writers define how their writing is going to be evaluated this semester; more specifically what qualities we all will be looking for in their writing...

Community College Times - The Challenge of Serving Students in Emotional and Psychological Distress (August 27, 2012) - Jane walks your hallways and those of many colleges and universities across the country. Angry, defiant and frustrated, she is deeply in debt with college loans and without a single college credit to her name...