Hartford Courant - MCC Appoints Dean Of Institutional Advancement (September 12, 2012) - Manchester Community College is pleased to announce that Leia Bell, a resident of Wethersfield, has been selected as the Dean of Institutional Advancement following a national search with other top candidates...

Hartford Courant - MCC's Phi Theta Kappa Named A Four Star Chapter (September 11, 2012) - The Alpha Upsilon Alpha Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa honor society at Manchester Community College was recently named a "Four Star Chapter" during the New England Regional Convention...

Journal Inquirer - Vernon Seniors (September 2, 2012) - ... Manchester Community College's Noon Institute is coming to the Senior Center. This is a monthly series held on Mondays presented by experts on a variety of topics. The first program is Majestic Theaters of Broadway...

Inside Higher Ed - Higher Ed Scholars' Voucher War (September 13, 2012) - From the high-profile perch of The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page last month, Matthew M. Chingos and Paul E. Peterson trumpeted the findings of their new study: that African-American students who used New York City vouchers to attend private schools in a 1990s program were 24 percent more likely to enroll in college than were black students who didn't win a voucher lottery...

Inside Higher Ed - When Statewide Pays Off (September 12, 2012) - North Carolina's community colleges are putting the finishing touches on a sweeping curriculum review, the sort that perhaps only a strong, centralized system could pull off... 

Inside Higher Ed - Visionary Idea (September 12, 2012) - Two years ago, Michael J. Sorrell was giving a speech to the student body when he noticed one of his favorite students in the front row. Despite sitting only 25 feet or so from Sorrell, the student was squinting to see him...

Connecticut State Colleges & Universities - Transfer and Articulation Policy Moving Forward (September 11, 2012) - Approved by the Board of Regents for Higher Education in March, the Transfer and Articulation Policy (TAP) is moving forward toward implementation. Faculty committees met over the summer to develop a framework for the common transferable General Education Core...

AACC - Seven Community Colleges to Pilot Benefits Access Project (September 11, 2012) - With backing from the nation's leading foundations, seven community and technical colleges announced today they will pilot an initiative testing innovative approaches to increase the number of students who earn postsecondary credentials...

CT Mirror - Portable Training For The UConn Nurses Who Care For Inmates (September 11, 2012) - A $1.1 million van outfitted with prison bunk beds and realistic "breathing" inmate mannequins made its first stop Monday on its way to serve as a mobile classroom for nurses in the state's prisons...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Breaking Ground in Higher Ed: A Look at New Models (September 10, 2012) - The debate about the need for change in America's K-12 education system has been raging for decades. Teachers, parents, administrators and government leaders alike have been grappling with how to transform a system that has been failing too many students for too long, according to a recent Center for Education Policy study...

Inside Higher Ed - The Community College Pipeline (September 10, 2012) - The notion that community colleges are key to putting students on a path to a four-year degree is not a new one; large numbers of Americans begin their postsecondary studies at two-year colleges, and transfer is one of the institutions' traditional functions...

Community College Times - Navy Awards $10M To La. College For Job Training (September 10, 2012) -Delgado Community College (DCC) has signed a cooperative education agreement with the U.S. Navy that will significantly enhance programs offered by the college in advanced manufacturing education at the Avondale shipyard in Jefferson Parish...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - NEBHE Awarded Lumina Foundation for Education Grant to Work with Khan Academy to Boost Remedial Math (September 10, 2012) - The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) was awarded a $356,200 grant from the Lumina Foundation to support a developmental education project that provides a high-quality, low-cost instructional platform coupling Khan Academy and community college resources...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Money Worries Keep Students Going to Campus Food Banks (September 10, 2012) - The week before the semester begins here at West Virginia University, students and parents stroll around the campus, shop at the bookstore, and munch food from Burger King and Chick-fil-A. The scene is what one might expect: young people having fun, their supportive families in tow...

Inside Higher Ed - Keep It Simple (September 10, 2012) - College and university websites are infamous for being cluttered and hard to navigate, so when Ozarks Technical Community College decided to redesign its site, it kept it strikingly simple...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - NEBHE Lands NSF Grant to Bring Problem Based Learning to Advanced Manufacturing (September 10, 2012 ) - The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) was awarded a three-year $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a New England-wide project titled Problem Based Learning (PBL) in Advanced Manufacturing: Transforming 21st Century Technician Education...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - As Students Scatter Online, Colleges Try to Keep Up (September 10, 2012) - When Jerica Bennett, a senior at Frostburg State University, wants to know what's happening on the campus, she likes a message short and sweet. Ideally it would pop up on her cellphone as a tweet or a post on Facebook...

Inside Higher Ed - Pell Spending Levels Off (September 7, 2012) - Pell Grants might not be such an appealing target to federal budget cutters after all, because the program's total cost decreased last year, surprising many...

Community College Times - Focusing on students' financial need to hasten completion  (September 11, 20120) - With backing from the nation's leading foundations, seven community and technical colleges have announced that they will pilot an initiative testing innovative approaches to increase the number of students who earn postsecondary credentials...

CT Mirror - Teacher Job Losses Decline Even Though Federal Money Dries Up (September 10, 2012) Despite the shutoff of federal stimulus funding for the school year that just began, the state -- surprisingly -- lost fewer teaching jobs than when nearly $1 billion was being funneled into Connecticut schools...

Inside Higher Ed - You Make the Call! (September 12, 2012) - Colleges have an alarming number of moving parts. This week I discovered that some advisors on campus have been encouraging students to sign up for online sections of certain classes with the understanding that if they decide they don't like the online format, they can switch to onsite versions during the add/drop period. It's a way to stick a toe in the water...

Inside Higher Ed - Newbies Only? (September 11, 2012) - I admit nearly spitting my coffee when I read this one. And that's unfortunate. The Colorado State University English department posted a tenure-track faculty position, specifying that it would only consider candidates who received their Ph.D.'s in 2010 or later. The IHE article quotes a legal consultant saying that there's nothing illegal about the posting...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - We've Always Been Deadbeats (September 10, 2012) - My father was a repo man. He did not look the part, which made him all the more effective. He alternately wore a long mustache or a shaggy beard and owned bell-bottoms in black, blue, and cherry red...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Campus Workers' Wages: a Disgrace to Academe (September 10, 2012) - More than 700,000 employees at American colleges-gardeners, security guards, cleaning crews, janitors, food-service personnel, etc.-do not earn a living wage, the bare-bones amount sufficient to provide a minimally decent standard of living for their families...