Hartford Courant - Faculty, Student Leaders To Regents on Glickman: She Has 'Our Complete Confidence' (October 16, 2012) - The college and academic senates at Manchester Community College voted Tuesday to send a letter to the Board of Regents for Higher Education expressing their confidence in their president, Gena Glickman...

Hartford Courant - MCC Courtyards Get Facelift Thanks to PlantConnecticut 2012 (October 16, 2012) - On a rainy Wednesday a volunteer crew spent their day installing new landscaping in the courtyards at Manchester Community College as a part of the annual PlantConnecticut program...

Hartford Courant - Manchester Community College Participates In The Bread Bakers Guild Of America's Open House (October 12, 2012) - Manchester Community College will be one of over fifty participants in The Bread Bakers Guild of America's Second Annual Guild-Wide Bakery Open House on Saturday, Oct. 20...

Bristol Press - An Over-50 Bristol Man's Return to the Workforce (October 11, 2012) - Retraining for a new career can be a scary experience at first - particularly for an older worker - but it can also open a world of new opportunity and promise. So it was for former Manchester Community College student Domenic DeAngelis Jr. of Bristol...

CT Mirror - Regents May Need Union Permission To Suspend Three Of The Illegal Raises (October 15, 2012) - While the Board of Regents for Higher Education has pledged to immediately suspend all 21 pay raises granted illegally by its former president over the past 10 months, it won't be that simple for three of those salary increases...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Connecticut's Higher-Education Chief Resigns Amid Controversy Over Pay Raises (October 11, 2012) - Robert A. Kennedy, whose support base as president of the Connecticut state higher-education system quickly eroded this week, resigned from his post on Friday...

Inside Higher Ed - Getting Smarter on Skills Testing (October 16, 2012) - The big enchilada of potential disruptions to higher education is if employers go outside of the academy to size up job seekers. While that prospect remains fanciful, for now, new approaches to skills assessment show what the future could look like...

Community College Times - Class Projects Fuse Math With Welding (October 15, 2012) - For many students, seeing a practical application of classroom academics can help them understand concepts. Conversely, showing the academics behind technical skills can also flip the switch for students in career training programs...

Inside Higher Ed - Blackboard's New Bag (October 15, 2012) - Blackboard has become the latest company to get into the business of helping colleges and universities build online programs...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Colleges Can Improve Outcomes for Veterans and the Economy (October 15, 2012) - Veterans play a critical role in the U.S. economy. For many returning veterans, education is the first step to successfully reentering civilian life and the workforce...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Meet the New For-Profit: the Low-Profit (October 14, 2012) -"Doing well by doing good" is the business mantra of the for-profit-college industry. But you don't have to look far to find people who question the slogan's sincerity or the very legitimacy of that model...

Inside Higher Ed - Students' Debt Loads Increase Again (October 18, 2012) - Students in the class of 2011 who took out loans graduated with an average of $26,600 in debt, a 5 percent increase from last year, according to a report released today by the Institute for College Access and Success examining student debt at four-year public and private nonprofit colleges...

Manchester Patch - Meet Edward Fleury, Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer, Realtor (October 15, 2012) - I met Ed Fleury at an East Hartford Chamber of Commerce event at Hoffman Ford... was laid off for a period of time in 2008, so I took the real estate course at Manchester Community College and passed the state exam to become a realtor...

CT Mirror - State Vo-Tech Schools Gearing Up Their Manufacturing Program (October 16, 2012) - For Ashley Roman, the choice to go into Platt Technical High School's precision manufacturing program was an easy one. "It's fun. It's interesting, and it offers a lot of jobs," said the junior from Milford. Roman is one of the 1,500 high school students studying manufacturing in the state, and when she graduates, manufacturers will likely be lining up to hire her...

Inside Higher Ed - Let's Make a Deal (October 17, 2012) - When it comes to higher education, there's no hotter topic for politicians than price. State lawmakers regularly fret about the rising cost of a college degree, and lowering the student debt burden has become a talking point on the presidential campaign trail...

New Haven Register - SUSAN CAMPBELL: Remember Students in Connecticut Community College Flap (October 16, 2012) - The email was angry, and anguished: My lectures were hard to follow. The documentary we'd watched in class made no sense. And why didn't I require a textbook? A textbook would be better. In the mess that is the Board of Regents for Higher Education - large, unvetted salary increases, resignations, recriminations, and such - I'd like to talk about the students...

Inside Higher Ed - Phoenix or Canary? (October 17, 2012) - The University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit higher education provider in the country, is closing over a hundred sites. That's over half of its physical locations. Part of the move is driven by enrollment decline, and part by an increased emphasis on online course delivery...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Community Colleges for the Students They Actually Have (October 14, 2012) - In the United States, we think of elementary and secondary education as fundamentally different from higher education. The first two levels are where students are expected to learn the building blocks for lifelong learning, while college is meant to confer higher-order thinking and more-specialized skills...