Hartford Courant - MCC Students Inducted Into Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society (October 10, 2012) - Phi Theta Kappa, the oldest and largest international honor society serving two-year colleges, inducted 10 students from Manchester Community College as members during summer...

Hartford Courant - Manufacturing Month Event Set (October 5, 2012) - Manchester Community College is sponsoring an open house for local manufacturing companies, workers, students, high-school guidance counselors, parents and the public on Oct. 19 from 8 to 11 a.m. The open house marks Manufacturing Month...

Journal Inquirer - MCC, Eastern Get Federal Job Training Money (September 21, 2012) - A group of state colleges, including Manchester Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University, have won a $12.1 million federal grant to train veterans and the under-employed in health and life science fields...

CT Board of Regents -  Statement of BOR Chair Lewis J. Robinson Regarding President Kennedy (October 11, 2012) - Board of Regents Chairman Lewis J. Robinson released the following statement regarding President Kennedy...

CT Mirror - New Questions Follow An Educator's Apology (October 10, 2012) - The head of the state's higher-education system apologized Wednesday for the hefty raises he unilaterally awarded to top staff, but he immediately was confronted with new questions about six weeks he spent working remotely from a second home in Minnesota over the summer...

CT Board of Regents -  Developmental Education Update  (October 9, 2012) - While the ceremonial signing of Public Act 12-40, An Act Concerning College Readiness and Completion, occurred only a few weeks ago at Norwalk Community College, planning for how developmental education must evolve in terms of delivery and outcomes has been underway for several months...

CT News Junkie - Education Executive Forfeits Wage Increase After Media Reports (October 9, 2012) - One of the top officials at the Board of Regents, which oversees the state's four regional colleges, 12 community colleges, and the Charter Oak State College, will forfeit a $47,820 wage increase after it was reported by the CTMirror...

CTNow.com - Community College Presidents: A 'Buyout' Or An 'Option To Leave' (October 9, 2012) - A higher education official, who is also a community college president, disputed accounts Monday that 12 community college presidents were offered a "buyout" at a September meeting...

Inside Higher Ed - Contention in Connecticut (October 8, 2012) - Two weeks ago, the leaders of Connecticut's public two- and four-year colleges gathered for a regular monthly meeting of campus chief executives at the office of the state's new higher education system...

CT Mirror - Second community college president: 'We're on the chopping block' (October 5, 2012) - A second Connecticut community college president has come forward to confirm that the 12 presidents "have been offered a buyout," and it was "made clear we're on the chopping block if we don't accept." Barbara Douglass, the president of Northwestern Community College in Winsted, said Friday...

Inside Higher Ed - Scrutiny for Affirmative Action (October 11, 2012) - The University of Texas at Austin needs a fourth Supreme Court justice to preserve its ability -- and that of other colleges -- to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions...

Inside Higher Ed - Brand New Online Heavies (October 10, 2012) - A growing number of nonprofit colleges have become big fish in online education and are targeting a working-adult-student market long-dominated by for-profit institutions...

Inside Higher Ed - Higher Ed Shrinks (October 10, 2012) - It's official: Higher education is shrinking, for the first time in at least 15 years. Total enrollment at American colleges and universities eligible for federal financial aid fell slightly in the fall of 2011 from the year before...

Community College Times - States Improve on Transfer Issues, But Gaps Remain (October 9, 2012) - An increasing number of states have made it easier for community college students to transfer to baccalaureate institutions by improving articulation and transfer elements, according to a new policy brief from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Habits of Mind: Lessons for the Long Term (October 8, 2012) - Many education experts who seek to define the value of a college degree seize on metrics that can be quantified in the short term. Some look at levels of student engagement, while others calculate gains on standardized tests of critical-thinking skills. Still others have started analyzing the salaries that recent graduates earn...

Inside Higher Ed - Grand Canyon's Ground Game (October 8, 2012) - A private Christian university has tapped its lucrative online program to offer generous financial aid packages to students at a bustling traditional campus in Phoenix...

Inside Higher Ed - No More Easy Money (October 9, 2012) - One by one, the formerly profluent tributaries merging into the higher education revenue stream seem to face increasing obstruction. This time the bad news hits endowments...

Inside Higher Ed - The Cost of Values (October 8, 2012) - It is often said that if you want to know what an institution values, see where it spends its money. Several sessions and much of the chatter here at the annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling centered on how changes in the funding landscape for public universities...

Journal Inquirer - Tolland Culinary Students To Serve Lunch to the Public (October 8, 2012) - Chicken Cordon Bleu with Alfredo Pasta and Asparagus and Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake with Chocolate Sauce...They receive Tolland High School credit plus Manchester Community College credit for the course...

CT Mirror - Teacher of the year -- improving the world, one child at a time (October 9, 2012) - Blaise Messinger tells his fifth graders in Room 175 that he is going to teach them the secret to math. He writes "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" on the white board. He tells the class to turn to the left and say the sentence to their neighbor, then turn to the right and say it in a funny, English accent...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - College Issues Loom Larger in Candidates' Campaign Ads (October 8, 2012) - Presidential candidates from both parties usually offer support for higher education in broad terms. This year, however, wonky subjects like income-based repayment programs and the interest rate on subsidized federal loans are playing a more prominent role in campaign rhetoric...

Washington Monghtly - Implementing Reform, the Other Side of Remediation (October 11, 2012) - Back in March I wrote about Connecticut's promising new remediation policy: eliminate all remedial college courses by 2014 and replace them with "embedded supports" in regular classes... 

CT Mirror - Former trustees on raise: A "Reward for destroying the community colleges"? (October 11, 2012) - Two former community college trustees are asking Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the new system president and the board chairman what their involvement was in the offer of "expedite[d]" separations of the local college presidents and the hefty raise awarded to the system's executive vice president...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - 'Buyouts' for Conn. College Leaders? No, It's an 'Expedited Separation Process' (October 4, 2012) - Michael P. Meotti, executive vice president of the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, has publicly asserted that there's no move afoot to unseat community-college presidents who are unhappy with a new state law...

Inside Higher Ed - Connecticut (October 10, 2012) - For once, I'm not going to pick on California. Connecticut's new centralized higher education system office has apparently been making either offers or threats -- there's some dispute, and I have no inside information on it -- to community college presidents...

Inside Higher Ed - Is It a Conflict to Assign Your Own Book? (October 10, 2012) - OK, we're one week in and already have enough to talk about for many moons. You are clearly watching, and wondering. I'm thrilled. Keep it coming, by whatever means you choose...

Inside Higher Ed - The NPR Model for Higher Ed (October 10, 2012) - The idea to use NPR as model for how higher ed could change is not my own. I heard the analogy of how higher ed could evolve to mimic the NPR model from a colleague at a conference, and the idea has stuck in my head...