Hartford Courant - Art Smart (December 23, 2012) - ...Manchester Community College's new Arts and Education Center art gallery, 903 Main St. in Manchester, opened just a few weeks ago and has been renamed the Adolf and Virginia Dehn Gallery. In honor of its new moniker, there is an exhibition, Inscapes, of works by Hamden native Virginia Dehn...

Hartford Courant - MCC on Main Brings College Feel to Downtown Manchester (December 20, 2012) - The town and Manchester Community College are committed to each other. That was proven in July when MCC and Manchester jointly opened MCC on Main in a storefront on Main Street. The space is dedicated to promoting the arts, culture and higher education...

CT Mirror - Panel: Pay Raises of College System's Central Office Unnecessary (December 26, 2012) - Eighteen of the 21 controversial pay raises unilaterally approved last year by the state's former college president have been determined to be inappropriate...

Inside Higher Ed - Placement Tests Still Rule (December 21, 2012) - Research released earlier this year found that commonly used placement tests fail to adequately determine whether incoming college students need remedial coursework...

Community College Times - Iowa College Unveils New Virtual Hospital (December 19, 2012) - Hawkeye Community College (Iowa) recently unveiled its new "virtual hospital," showcasing education technology that is unique in the Midwest...

Huff Post - 10 Colleges Where Graduates Have the Least Debt: US News and World Report (December 26, 2012) - Who wants debt when they graduate college? No one. U.S. News and World Report recently ranked the colleges with the least debt. Alice Lloyd College, a women's liberal arts school in Kentucky, topped the list. How did this little liberal arts college accomplish such a feat...

Fox Business - Five Financial New Year's Resolutions Every Student Should Make (December 26, 2012) - As we head into a new year, now is the time for college students to evaluate their college, financial and career goals and set new goals and plans for 2013...

West Hartford News - Avon Woman Competes in 2013 Miss Connecticut USA Pageant (December 20, 2012) - Elizabeth Whalen, 23, of Avon, took her beauty and poise to the 2013 Miss Connecticut USA pageant...She played soccer for two years at Manchester Community College...

Huff Post - Virginia Tech Will Honor Sandy Hook Victims in Russell Athletic Bowl (December 27, 2012) - Virginia Tech will honor the memories of student and staff killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre with a special helmet decal during the Russell Athletic Bowl on Friday, according to Fox News...

New York Times - Reid Says a Deal Is Unlikely Before the Fiscal Deadline (December 27, 2012) - Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, warned Thursday morning that there was scant time to put together a Congressional deal to avert the impending fiscal crisis and that no resolution was in sight...

Inside Higher Ed - Defining Learning Expectations (December 21, 2012) - Giants can move. So can venerable, cautious scholarly organizations like the American Historical Association. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Kevin Carey of the New America Foundation asked "Who Will Hold Colleges Accountable?" As a professor at Colorado College, and faculty chair of the AHA's Tuning Project, I can answer: we will...