November 29, 2012

Hartford Courant - News Highlights  (November 25, 2012) - Police Sgt. Honored For Service: Manchester Community College recently honored local police Sgt. Cleon Moses for his service to the college and community...

Manchester Patch - New ECHN Corporators and New Trustee Elected at Annual Meeting (November 21, 2012) - Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) recently held its Annual Meeting of the ECHN Corporators and Board of Trustees ... The newly elected Corporators are ...Endia DeCordova, Associate Dean of Institutional Advancement at Manchester Community College...

Inside Higher Ed - The (Needless?) Frenzy (November 29, 2012) - More applications. More stress. Less certainty. For colleges and for college applicants, the admissions process has become more complicated...

CT Mirror - What brought down Kennedy and Meotti? (November 28, 2012) - Reorganizing the state universities and community colleges may have been Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's idea, but handpicking who would lead the merged, 100,000-student system wasn't his call -- at least not according to the legislators who crafted the merger bill...

ACE - Higher Education Groups Urge Caution on Charitable Giving Deduction  (November 26, 2012) - ACE and a coalition of higher education associations have sent letters to President Obama and Congress, urging caution when considering changes to the charitable giving tax deduction as part of negotiations to end the so-called fiscal cliff...

Inside Higher Ed - Pricing Out the Humanities (November 26, 2012) - History professors at the University of Florida think their courses are plenty valuable, but they don't want them to be among the most expensive...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Industry Partnerships in South Carolina Give Students Skills and Confidence (November 26, 2012) - As president of Tri-County Technical College, which places interns at manufacturing companies like BMW and Michelin, Ronnie L. Booth has heard all of the arguments against tracking students into vocational paths early on...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Apprenticeships Make a Comeback in the United States (November 26, 2012) - When Michael Aguilera graduated from high school, in Woodmont, S.C., in 2009, he didn't think he would ever find himself back in a classroom...

Community College Times - N.Y. College's Sign Language Interpreter Program Gets A Boost (November 21, 2012) - Philip Wilson, an educational interpreter in a program for deaf students in a Bronx public high school in New York, has a keen eye for other interpreters...

MSN - MOOCs: End of Higher ED as We Know It? (November 21, 2012) - Here is good news for your children and grandchildren: When the latter are ready for college, the former won't be pushed into the poor house by it...

Inside Higher Ed - So Close Yet So Far (November 20, 2012) - The Affordable Care Act was designed to get more people access to health insurance. But one community college has decided to prevent some adjuncts from being covered by the law by cutting their hours...

Community College Times - Gates Foundation Supports MOOCs at Community Colleges (November 19, 2012) - Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are becoming a popular way to bring free learning to the world, but the impact they can have on postsecondary success-especially for low-income students-is still not known...

Inside Higher Ed - Another Push on Prior Learning (November 19, 2012) - The College of St. Scholastica, a Roman Catholic institution located in Duluth, Minn., wants to help working adults earn degrees with a hands-on approach to granting credit for learning gained outside the classroom, including through massive open online classes...

ACE - Charitable Giving and the Federal Charitable Income Tax Deduction (October 2011) - The federal income tax deduction encourages charitable giving that benefits higher education and society in general. While donors make charitable gifts for many reasons, it is well established that the charitable tax deduction is an effective incentive that helps generate and sustain charitable donations...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Bubble Wrap: Higher Education and the Value Gap (November 20, 2012) - A recent report by the College Board might be an indicator of how fast the sands of higher education are shifting. The prices that most people actually pay for college, which had remained stable for several years, are on the rise again, as tuition and other cost increases outpace financial aid awards...

Inside Higher Ed - What's Next for the Pell Grant? (November 16, 2012) - It's been a nail-biting few years for Pell Grant advocates, as Congressional budget crisis after Congressional budget crisis raised the specter of deep cuts to the major federal financial aid program for low-income students...

Hartford Courant - Manchester Raising Money To Help Disabled Veteran (November 26, 2012) - At first glance, it's not obvious that former Army Staff Sgt. Sandra Lee has service-related disabilities...Now living in Manchester and attending Manchester Community College, Lee is getting her own home thanks to Purple Heart Homes, a national organization that helps veterans become homeowners...

Journal Inquirer - Tolland Student Chefs Create Recipes for Public Lunches (November 14, 2012) - Roasted Turkey and Gravy and Asparagus and Flourless Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Sauce...They receive Tolland High School credit plus Manchester Community College credit for the course...

CT Mirror - Malloy Shrinks Deficit with Cuts to Social Services, Colleges (November 28, 2012) - Connecticut's social services safety net and its public colleges and universities took the brunt Wednesday of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's first effort to whittle down a $363 million state budget deficit. The administration released $123 million worth of emergency cuts ordered by the governor, including nearly $70 million aimed at health care and social service agencies and $25 million more at public colleges and universities...

CT Mirror - A Closer Look at Connecticut's Higher Education Salaries (November 28, 2012) - The Malloy administration insists that the $410,000 compensation package it awarded in 2011 to the former president of the state's college system was competitive...

Inside Higher Ed - Advising, Thin and Thick (November 28, 2012) - The headline to this article pretty much tells its story: "Student Advising Plays Key Role in College Success -- Just As It's Being Cut." It goes on to detail the rollout of an automated advising program at Arizona State...

Inside Higher Ed - Go Negative? (November 27, 2012) - I enjoyed this story. Apparently, Ozarks Technical Community College has decided to take out ads showing how its tuition levels stack up against its local for-profit competitors...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - On Students' Paths to College, Some Detours Are Desirable (November 26, 2012) - Every spring, millions of 18-year-olds graduate from high school and start on one of three paths: college, the military, or work. College is the choice encouraged most often by high-school guidance counselors, and for good reason...

Inside Higher Ed - Campus vs. Campus? (November 25, 2012) - Should community colleges in different parts of a state compete with each other for funding? To me, the obvious answer is "no," but that doesn't appear obvious to everybody...

Community College Times - Updating Academic Advising for the 21st Century (November 21, 2012) - Academic advising is the second-most important function in the community college. If it is not conducted with the utmost efficiency and effectiveness, the most important function...

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