Hartford Courant - Auction To Raise Funds For Home For Manchester Veteran, Disabled After Four Bomb Attacks (October 2, 2012) - Town leaders are working with a nonprofit organization that plans to renovate a home for an Iraq War veteran who survived four bomb attacks and is disabled...

Hartford Courant - Magnet School In Manchester Gets New Principal (October 1, 2012) - A former Hartford school district teacher and school administrator has started her new job as principal of Great Path Academy, an inter-district magnet school on the campus of Manchester Community College...

Hartford Courant - Manchester Arts Group Hosts Fall Festival Downtown (October 1, 2012) - Imagine Main Street continues its First Thursday events this week with a fall festival downtown... Blue Grass Jam & Wine by bin228 at MCC on Main...

Chronicle- Grand Opening of the MCC Arts and Education Center A Great Success   (September 28, 2012) - Manchester Community College's Arts and Education Center, MCC on Main, held its grand opening fundraiser on Thursday, September 13. The event was attended by 150 people and $12,000 was raised before the end of the event...

Journal Inquirer - Mishi-Maya-Gat Poetry and Music Move to MCC on Main (September 27, 2012) - The MishiMaya-Gat Spoken Word & Music Series is moving from Manchester Community College's campus to the new MCC on Main Arts & Education Center this month...

Inside Higher Ed - A Net Disappointment (October 4, 2012) - The requirement that colleges display calculators on their websites to estimate the net price, or the cost after need-based grants (and sometimes other aid), went into effect just over a year ago...

Inside Higher Ed - A New Affirmative Action (October 3, 2012) -A new report from the Century Foundation, released one week before the Supreme Court is set to hear what could be a landmark case on affirmative action in university admissions, argues that universities could become more diverse by eliminating the consideration of race...

Inside Higher Ed - Public Universities Join Team Completion (October 3, 2012) - Given that they enroll more than a third of all undergraduates in the United States, public four-year colleges and universities will have to pick up their game in a big way if the country has any chance at all of meeting the ambitious goals that President Obama and his co-conspirators in the "completion agenda" have set for increasing postsecondary attainment...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Developing Story: A Forum on Improving Remedial Education (October 2, 2012) - Why is remedial or developmental education such a hot issue? Partly because it costs time and money and casts doubt on the elementary and secondary education systems that we assume will prepare students for college...

Inside Higher Ed - First Things First (October 2, 2012) - It can be tough to hear that one can't truly have it all, but the University of Hartford's faculty members seem to be taking the news well...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Why I Changed My Mind About Teaching Online (October 1, 2012) - In 1998 I wrote an article for a national newspaper that was highly critical of online higher education. Among other things, I said, "We're on the edge of something very dangerous," and "Technology always seems to put us once removed from the best learning atmosphere...

Community College Times - N.Y. colleges prepare for statewide Completion Day  (October 1, 2012) - A first-of-its-kind statewide public awareness campaign that is encouraging and supporting students to earn an associate degree is set to kick off this week in New York...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - On Becoming a Phoenix: Encounters With the Digital Revolution (October 1, 2012) - Last May, I accepted the ballyhooed invitation to potential students to "Become a Phoenix." I enrolled in the University of Phoenix's online, five-week course in creative writing as a nondegree student. By Visa card, I paid my tuition of $1,215 and an application fee of $45...

Inside Higher Ed - High-Stakes Gig in California (September 28, 2012) - Brice Harris has had one month of retirement to prepare for one of the most challenging leadership roles in higher education...

Inside Higher Ed - Default Rates Continue Climb, Mostly (October 1, 2012) - Just over 9 percent of students default on their federal student loans in the first two years after they begin paying them back, and 13.4 percent default in the first three years, according to data released Friday by the Education Department...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Reports Highlight Colleges Where Minority Success Rates Have Soared (September 20, 2012) - Educational attainment levels for young Americans in minority groups still lag, but a number of institutions are making significant progress toward improving that picture by increasing the number of black and Hispanic students they graduate, according to a pair of new reports from the Education Trust...

Hartford Courant - Cheney Tech In Manchester To Get State Funds (October 3, 2012) - Howell Cheney Technical High School will get state funding to purchase new equipment and replace equipment, state Rep. Geoff Luxenberg, D-Manchester, announced Wednesday...

CT Mirror - School suspension rates drop, but minority students still over-represented (October 2, 2012) - A new state law has significantly reduced the number of students being suspended from school, but it has not diminished Connecticut's racial disparity in use of the disciplinary technique. During the 2010-11 school year -- when the law went into effect -- the number of out-of-school suspensions statewide dropped by 19 percent, or 9,835 incidents, newly compiled data shows...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - New Obama Ads Tout Goal of Cutting Tuition and Attack Romney on Pell Grants (September 27, 2012) - As part of a two-minute campaign advertisement released on Thursday, President Obama outlines an economic plan, called "a new economic patriotism," that includes his pledge to reduce college tuition and expand federal student aid...

Inside Higher Ed - The Power of Systemness October 4, 2012) - Chancellor Nancy Zimpher of the State University of New York (SUNY) has added a new word to Wikipedia. While she was an English major in college, creating new words is not typically how she spends her time. But this particular word, "systemness," has uncommon utility for her, as she presides over a 64-campus system of public higher education in a time of austerity politics...

Inside Higher Ed - When Fundraisers Attack, Part One (October 3, 2012) - I'm at the CASE conference in San Diego, seeing what "development" (that is, fundraising) officers at community colleges talk about when they gather...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - A New Kind of Affirmative Action Can Ensure Diversity (October 3, 2012) - After almost a half century, American higher education's use of racial preferences in admissions to selective colleges may well be coming to an end...

Inside Higher Ed - On Adjuncts, Learning Designers, and Educational Technologists (October 1, 2012) - I read Harvest Moon's beautiful essay "Quitting an Adjunct Career" with both sadness and a sense of familiarity. Like Harvest, I also trained as a sociologist, and have taught numerous sociology courses outside of the tenure track...