Hartford Courant - Manchester Community College Professor, Inducted Into the Manchester Arts Hall Of Fame (September 18, 2102) - Lois Ryan, professor of English at Manchester Community College, was inducted into the Manchester Arts Hall of Fame at a ceremony held at the Lutz Museum earlier this summer...

Manchester Patch - Grand Opening of MCC on Main a 'Great Success' (September 17, 2012) - Manchester Community College's Arts and Education Center's grand opening last week was attended by more than 150 people, while $12,000 was raised before the end of the event...

Hartford Business Journal - Manchester, Middletown See Green Tech Learning Centers (September 17, 2012) - With a little help from utility ratepayers, two property owners in Manchester and Middletown envision green technology centers where students and business people can learn about the latest in environmentally friendly tools..., but he also plans on opening the building as a green laboratory for area students from Eastern Connecticut State University, Manchester Community College and regional vocational schools...

Inside Higher Ed - Juvenile Records and Admissions (September 20, 2012) - When S.D., the initials used in court records to describe him anonymously, applied for admission to Temple University in 2011, he answered "No" to the question on the application about whether he had ever been convicted of a crime...

Hartford Courant - Wesleyan To Offer Free Online Classes Called 'MOOCs'  (September 19, 2012) - It's not easy to go to Wesleyan University. Eighty percent of applicants get turned down. And there's the expense: close to $60,000-a-year, including room and board...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - States With High-School Exit Exams Focus More on College and Career Readiness, Report Says (September 19, 2012) - A growing number of states are aligning their high-school exit examinations with college- and career-readiness standards, as pressure builds on the nation's secondary-education system to do a better job of preparing students for college-level work or to enter the work force...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Students Need Better Information on Earnings and Other College Outcomes, Senators Say (September 19, 2012) - Although several studies have documented the financial payoff of graduating from college, debate continues to swirl over whether higher education is a good investment. In those discussions, knowing what happens to the average college graduate is only so helpful...

Inside Higher Ed - Mature Market for Online Education (September 19, 2012) - The market for online higher education aimed at adults may be reaching maturity, according to a new report from Eduventures. And without a better-defined product, the report's author said online learning faces a risk of petering out and being little more than a back-up alternative to on-campus education for students...

Community College Times - Aligned On Academic Progress For Nurses (September 18, 2012) - In a move to support all nurses moving to advance their education, leaders from national organizations representing community college presidents, boards and program administrators have joined with representatives from nursing education associations to endorse a joint statement on nursing education...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - All About the Money (September 18, 2012) - What is your college degree truly worth? That is the question that a new report seeks to answer. And it does so by distilling college into a number, expressed in dollars...

Inside Higher Ed - Retaliation at Queensborough? (September 17, 2012) - What happens when an academic department declines to go along with one of administrators' top priorities? That question is being debated at Queensborough Community College, where the English department says that it is being punished in inappropriate ways for exercising its professional judgment about a curricular model...

Inside Higher Ed - A Stable Job? (September 17, 2012) - Mark Heinrich, the newly selected chancellor of Alabama's Department of Postsecondary Education, knows that his new job does not come with the best track record...

Community College Times - Embedding 21st-Century Initiative Ideas Onto Campuses (September 17, 2012) - "We're looking for big ideas." That's the task Walter Bumphus, president of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), gave to members of a blue-ribbon steering committee that will explore tangible ways for community college campuses to implement recommendations presented in a high-profile report AACC released this spring...

Inside Higher Ed - Efficiency in Job Training (September 17, 2012) - Bachelor degree production isn't a big problem in this country. Associate degrees and certificates are where the U.S. lags other industrialized countries, according to the latest study from Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce...

Inside Higher Ed - SUNY vs. Student Debt  (September 19, 2012) - The State University of New York System announced this week it will begin a systemwide effort to prevent student borrowers from defaulting on their loans. The plan is the most comprehensive so far by a state higher education system to deal with the growing concern surrounding student borrowing...

CT Mirror - Panel Looks To Tackle Skyrocketing Special Education Costs (September 17, 2012) - state panel is considering recommending wealthy school districts and high-income parents with special needs children pay more to cover the skyrocketing price of special education...

Inside Higher Ed - The High End (September 19, 2012) - I've been involved in a series of initiatives lately based on improving student success rates (defined as passing and graduating), closing racial and economic gaps, and helping students from underrepresented groups find their way into the jobs of the future. These are all good and worthy endeavors, and I'm happy to work with them...

Inside Higher Ed - Picking Up the Twenty (September 18, 2012) - Economists aren't known for being funny on purpose, but this one isn't bad.. An economist and his grad student are walking across the quad when they spy what looks like a twenty dollar bill on the sidewalk. The grad student looks at the professor for cues, and notices that the professor is still walking. The grad student asks "aren't you going to pick it up?" The professor responds "if it were really a twenty, someone would have picked it up by now...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - The Community Liberal-Arts College (September 17, 2012) - Excuse me for finding the cloud amid the silver lining, but I'm not entirely comfortable with all the attention community colleges have been getting lately...