Journal Inquirer - Bread-making Open House at MCC (October 29, 2012) - Manchester Community College will participate in the Bread Bakers Guild of America's second annual Guild-Wide Bakery Open House...

Hartford Courant - PlantConnecticut Gives Facelift To MCC Courtyards (October 28, 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...

Inside Higher Ed - Beyond Sports (November 1, 2012) - Many colleges will do just about anything to get a bigger share of the ever-increasing revenue and recognition brought from participation in intercollegiate athletics...

Inside Higher Ed - We've Got a Tutor for That (November 1, 2012) - A calculus student needs last-minute tutoring. The academic support office is closed, and even if it were open, it might not have anyone equipped or available to help with her upper-level course. The tutoring ads on Craigslist seem sketchy, and she's had bad experiences with the people who post signs around campus advertising their services...

Community College Times - Campus-based Museums Support Colleges' Mission (October 31, 2012) - Community colleges with on-campus museums have found such institutions offer many benefits: They raise the college's profile, help attract donors, strengthen ties to the community and enhance educational programs...

Inside Higher Ed - Exporting Online (October 30, 2012) - California's Coastline Community College is set to create low-cost, online bachelor's degree pathways where students can enroll simultaneously at one of three public universities, none of which are in California...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - AAUP Rethinks Its Guidelines on Faculty Layoffs (October 29, 2012) - The American Association of University Professors is poised to overhaul its guidelines on faculty layoffs, by both taking a much broader view of the circumstances in which such job cuts are acceptable and requiring much more faculty involvement in decisions to eliminate academic programs and positions...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - For Controversial Immigrants, College Education Is Caught Up in Politics (October 29, 2012) - Well after the Dream Act failed to pass Congress in 2010, the issue of young immigrants living in the United States without legal documentation still generates impassioned debate. Now it has been renewed in the presidential campaign as well as on ballot measures in Maryland and Montana...

Community College Times - National Magazine Focuses On Tech Ed Awareness (October 26, 2012) - The magazine that turned college rankings into a big business is taking a long, close look at career and technical education...

CT Mirror - Gubernatorial Ally To Become College System's Interim Chief Of Staff (October 26, 2012) - Deputy State Labor Commissioner Dennis Murphy, an administrator with longstanding ties to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, has been named the interim chief of staff for the state's merged public college system...

Community College Times - NSF Gives Kudos To Advances At Community Colleges (October 26, 2012) - When Kate Denniston highlights successes at community colleges, the deputy director at National Science Foundation points to her own family: Her son earned a culinary arts degree and is now a sous chef, and her daughter has degree in automotive technology, transferred to a four-year college and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in physics...

Inside Higher Ed - Phoenix Reloads (October 26, 2012) - It's been a tough year for the University of Phoenix. But don't count out the big dog of for-profits just yet. Increasing competition from lower-priced nonprofit upstarts, regulatory battles and bad press have taken their toll on the for-profit industry, with most publicly traded chains now struggling with steep declines in enrollment and revenue...

CT Mirror - Higher Education Board Gives New President Same Pay -- Minus Expensive Perks -- As Ousted Chief (October 25, 2012) - Former University of Connecticut President Philip E. Austin will earn the same $340,000 annual salary as his predecessor -- but none of the additional lucrative incentives -- in exchange for leading the state's embattled, merged public college system on a temporary basis...

Inside Higher Ed - Some College, No Degree, No Pell (October 31, 2012) - In the continuing push to increase the proportion of Americans with college degrees, one group has been singled out as key to reach: those who have attended college and have some credits, but never earned a degree...

Community College Times - A Silver Lining In College Costs (October 24, 2012) - The average sticker price at community colleges rose this year to $3,130, which is a 5.8 percent increase-about $172...

Hartford Courant Cultural Cocktail Hour at the Butler-McCook House And Garden In Hartford (October 26, 2012) - On Thursday, Nov. 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Connecticut Landmarks' Butler-McCook House & Garden & Main Street History Center presents the exhibition opening of Cora Ennis' Windows into the Kasbah... Ennis holds a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Central Connecticut State University and an Associates of Fine Arts & Science from Manchester Community College...

Hartford Courant - Hartford Students In Regional Magnets And 'Open Choice' Outperform Kids In City Schools (October 25, 2012) - Hartford resident students attending regional magnet schools and suburban schools through the "Open Choice" programs outperformed Hartford students in the regular school system by wide margins on state tests taken last spring, according to state data distributed by the Center for Children's Advocacy...

Inside Higher Ed - Rogue Data (October 30, 2012) - We have an issue with free-range databases. Like most colleges, mine was born before IT became a fact of life. IT had to be grafted onto a pre-existing culture, or, more accurately, set of micro-cultures. Different departments and support programs have their own ways of doing things; some have welcomed technology, some have grudgingly adapted, and some have shoved it over in a corner, hoping it would eventually go away...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - A Losing Battle (October 29, 2012) - Almost a year ago, I was blasted in these pages for suggesting that professors should not make classroom rules they can't enforce, especially governing the use of electronic devices...

Community College Times - Using Social Media In A Crisis (October 29, 2012) -   Two-year colleges harness services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for everything from building attendance at campus events to helping students stay in school. But colleges are also learning that once they establish open lines of communication with students on social media, those avenues will be looked to for all types of information, including fast, transparent, two-way communication in a crisis...