Hartford Courant - MCC On Main Gallery In Manchester Renamed After Adolf And Virginia Dehn (December 19, 2012) - Manchester Community College's new Arts and Education Center art gallery at 903 Main St. in Manchester, which opened just a few weeks ago, has been renamed the Adolf and Virginia Dehn Gallery...

Hartford Courant - MCC Students Prepare For Growth Careers With EMT Training, Other Allied Health Certifications (December 19, 2012) - Allied health jobs are expected to increase by 20 percent over the next several years, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Labor...

Inside Higher Ed - Presidential Pledge on Guns (December 20, 2012) - President Obama has promised to do everything in his power to curb gun violence. Now, several hundred college presidents are throwing their weight behind him...

New England Journal of Higher Ed - Are Sandy Hook and other Tragedies Creating a New Category of Student? (December 20, 2012) - Today, students can be categorized in many different ways. Domestic, international, first generation and stealth are all terms used frequently in higher education. Through the application process to college, students may also be categorized as a "legacy," having a learning challenge or even down to their demographic background...

Inside Higher Ed - College Enrollments Fell This Fall (December 19, 2012) - Memo to college presidents: Your admissions directors weren't making excuses when they told you they were struggling to fill their classes this fall...

Community College Times - Ads Tout Value of Community Colleges (December 17, 2012) - Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) in Missouri wants students and the public to know that OTC is a much better value than nearby for-profit institutions...

Inside Higher Ed - Measuring Success in New Ways (December 17, 2012) - Given the complexities of graduate education, it can be hard to measure program success in meaningful ways. Traditional, external reviews track things such as time to degree and completion rates every five to 10 years at large research institutions...

CT Mirror - A scholarship for the Survivors of Sandy Hook (December 17, 2012) - The University of Connecticut has set up a scholarship for the survivors and the siblings of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting...

Inside Higher Ed - Low-Cost Option for Working Adults (December 17, 2012) - By forgoing federal financial aid and awarding credits to students based on the skills and knowledge they prove they have mastered rather than the amount of time they spend in courses...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - For Whom Is College Being Reinvented? (December 17, 2012) - Last year, leading lights in for-profit and nonprofit higher education convened in Washington for a conference on private-sector innovation in the industry. The national conversation about dysfunction and disruption in higher education was just heating up...

Inside Higher Ed - Freelance Professors (December 14, 2012) - "Self-employed professor" could soon be an actual job title, thanks to two companies that are helping a small group of college professors market their own online courses, set prices for them and share the tuition revenue...

Community College Times - Can possible tax changes affect donations to colleges? (December 13, 2012) - Nonprofit organizations-including community colleges-are uncertain how possible changes to federal tax laws to help reduce the federal deficit would affect their fundraising efforts...

Salon - New U.C. logo: A Sad Sign for Higher Education (December 11, 2012) - ...U.C. recently unveiled its new logo. Gone is the traditional arrangement, centering on an open book adorned with the institution's founding date. The new logo features instead a simple yellow, almost Comic Sans style "C" - or perhaps it's a swish? - on a sky blue "U" background. An 11-person team spent three years developing the logo, which aimed to project a "forward-looking spirit" according to U.C. officials cited in the L.A. Times...

Inside Higher Ed - A Guaranteed Pell Grant? (December 18, 2012) - Early-commitment scholarships -- in which a donor offers to pay the way for a class of students to attend college, for example -- have been an occasional hallmark of philanthropy...

Inside Higher Ed - Limits of Performance-Based Grants (December 14, 2012) - At a time when policy makers are faced with budget constraints, the idea of tying financial aid to desirable outcomes has a lot of surface appeal...

The Grio - "Sweaters2Gifts"™ Campaign to Help Needy Community Spearheaded by College Student (December 19, 2012) - A 21-year-old senior at Syracuse University is in the giving and service spirit this Christmas season and looking to make a big impact on her community...

Hartford Courant - Newtown Shooting Ratchets Up School Security Concerns Elsewhere (December 15, 2012) - School administrators in districts throughout Connecticut are reviewing their security systems and fielding calls from parents worried about their children's safety...

CT Mirror - Legislators Pass Bipartisan Bill to Erase Budget Shortfall (December 19, 2012) - The General Assembly moved quickly Wednesday night to wipe most of the remaining red ink out of the current state budget, relying largely on cuts to social services, but also reducing a wide array of education and tourism initiatives...

Inside Higher Ed - Corporate Governance, Shared Governance, and Higher Ed (December 17, 2012) - The only thing scarier than higher education with administrators is higher education without them. Last week, Lee Skallerup Bessette and Paul Fain both had thought-provoking pieces in IHE about StraighterLine and the possibility of "freelance" higher education...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Colleges' Concerted Campaign for Ignorance (December 17, 2012) - Four years ago, Congress passed one of the worst laws in the modern history of higher education. Under the title "Database of Student Information Prohibited," the omnibus 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act barred the Department of Education from creating a "student unit record system, an education bar code system, or any other system that tracks individual students over time...

Inside Higher Ed - Sandy Hook (December 17, 201) - We've stopped in Sandy Hook any number of times over the last few years, driving between Massachusetts and New Jersey. It's a cute little town just off route 84, about halfway between Danbury and Waterbury. It has several good lunch places, and a lovely upscale toy store in an old house that couldn't be any more New England-y if it tried...