Hartford Courant - Manchester Community College Named A Military Friendly School (September 25, 2012) - Victory Media, the premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has named Manchester Community College to the 2013 Military Friendly Schools list...

Hartford Courant - Manchester Community College Offering Sales and Use Tax Course (September 24, 2012) - Manchester Community College is offering a course for those interested in understanding the changes to Connecticut's sales and use taxes...

Reminder News - Student and Alumni Exhibit now open at MCC on Main (September 21, 2012) - An art exhibit featuring the works of students and alumni of Manchester Community College is now on display through Oct. 25 at MCC on Main, the college's satellite gallery and education center...

Hartford Courant - U.S. Labor Secretary Announces $12 Million In Grants To State Community Colleges (September 21, 2012) - A day after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported one of the largest monthly increases in Connecticut's unemployment rate, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis visited the city Friday to stress the importance of education in expanding fields and the connections between community colleges and local employers...

Journal Inquirer - MCC on Main raises $12,000 (September 18, 2012) - Officials at Manchester Community College are calling last week's grand opening of the arts and education center on Main Street a success, with $12,000 raised during Thursday's event. The celebration, which was attended by 150 people, included a pre-opening wine and champagne reception at the historic Charles Cheney Mansion...

Community College Times - Baby boomer college program reaches completion goal early (September 27, 2012) - A national program to help students age 50 and older returning to college train for new jobs has reached its goals two years ahead of schedule and is revving up to help more people...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Teaching Students to Show, Not Tell (September 26, 2012) - In his epic poem A Season in Hell, the surly French poet Arthur Rimbaud proposes that the Devil likes writing that lacks "descriptive" qualities...

Community College Times - Md. College, Discovery partner on trades education (September 26, 2012) - Montgomery College (MC) in Maryland and Discovery Education, a provider of digital content for classrooms, this week announced plans to expand their partnership to support vocational education...

Inside Higher Ed - SAT Scores Drop Again (September 25, 2012) - The average scores on the SAT fell two points this year, losing one point each in critical reading and in writing, while staying level in mathematics. The drops are smaller than the six-point decrease last year. For several years prior to that, scores had been relatively flat...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - U. of South Carolina Crafts an Online Degree That Students Can Afford (September 23, 2012) - Mark E. Pittman is in many ways the quintessential student for the University of South Carolina's new Palmetto College. At 47, he is a former Navy man, a husband, a father of three, and the principal breadwinner in his family. More than a decade after leaving behind his studies at South Carolina, he has re-enrolled-and if all goes well, he will soon become the first person in his family to earn a bachelor's degree...

Inside Higher Ed - Who's in Control? (September 21, 2012) Robert Shireman has long criticized colleges and lawmakers for not doing enough to protect lower-income students. But now that he's back in California... Shireman has found a new opponent: faculty leaders at the state's community colleges...

Inside Higher Ed - Paying for an A (September 21, 2012) - The growth of the online education market appears to have spun off another, more surreptitious market - one that goes beyond the paper-writing services long available to less than honest students - and online educators are taking note...

Newsweek - Is College a Lousy Investment? (September 9, 2012) - Why are we spending so much money on college? And why are we so unhappy about it? We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing so much in this supposedly essential good...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - As Loan Servicers Multiply, So Do Problems for Students, College Officials Say (September 23, 2012) - When students or recent graduates come to talk with Anthony M. Sozzo about repaying their federal loans, he sometimes struggles with what to tell them...

CT Mirror - Communities Still Feeling The Property Tax Bite, Municipal Lobby Says (September 24, 2012) - Very small increases in municipal aid over the past two years -- while appreciated -- haven't been enough to reverse Connecticut's over-reliance on property taxes, the state's chief municipal lobby is reminding candidates this fall. The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities issued its first bulletin Monday to candidates for the state House and Senate, also urging them to make additional education funding one of their priorities...

Inside Higher Ed - A Learning Society (September 27, 2012 ) - Since the early days of the Republic, adult Americans have been seeking ways to further educate themselves after their (successful or unsuccessful) formal education is over...

Inside Higher Ed - Performance Anxiety (September 26, 2012) - My state is starting to make noises about basing appropriations for public colleges on "performance" numbers. Since it's fairly clear that we're talking about reallocating existing money, rather than adding new money to the pot, some campuses stand to get more, and others stand to get less...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Only Disconnect (September 24, 2012) - I've always dreaded the beginning of a new school year. I feel an anxious gravity at the prospect of blank slates-especially at the thought of yet again competing with the formidable allure of social media as I try to engage my college students, to get them to take risks and to sink into the topic at hand...