Hartford Courant - Get in Step with Your New Year's Resolutions at MCC (January 2, 2012) - Now that everyone has survived 2012, there's a need to get in step with 2013 New Year's resolutions, after all, and Manchester Community College (MCC) Credit-Free Programs has a way to help...

Hartford Courant - INSCAPES (December 31, 2012) - Manchester Community College's new Arts and Education Center art gallery at 903 Main St. in Manchester, which opened a few weeks ago, has been renamed the Adolf and Virginia Dehn Gallery...

Hartford Courant - MCC Offers EMT Training, Allied Health Certifications (December 30, 2012) - Allied health jobs are expected to increase by 20% over the next several years, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Labor...

Reminder News - Looking Back: Summer 2012 (December 27, 2012) - Summer is a busy time of year for Manchester...If art can serve as a vehicle to boost local businesses, Manchester Community College believes it is also a way to connect its campus to Main Street...

Inside Higher Ed - Law of Unintended Consequences (January 3, 2013) - The cost and hassle of a required vaccination shot for bacterial meningitis might be helping to drive down enrollments at Texas community colleges...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - College Education is Expected to Remain a High Priority for States (January 3, 2013) - A slow-growing economy, political polarization, and the drive to significantly increase the number of college graduates are the factors that will keep higher education in the forefront of this year's state legislative sessions...

Inside Higher Ed - Tests With and Without Motivation (January 2, 2013) - As colleges have faced increasing pressure in recent years to demonstrate that students learn something while enrolled, many have turned to tests of learning outcomes, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Congress Approves Deal to Head Off Worst Effects of 'Fiscal Cliff' (January 1, 2013) - After weeks of bickering, members of Congress passed a bill late Tuesday that would avert the worst effects of the so-called fiscal cliff...

CT Mirror - For-profit Schools Shut Doors on Short Notice to Students (December 31, 2012) - Officials of the for-profit Sawyer School have given its estimated 1,200 students, and the state, just a few days' notice that they are closing their post-secondary programs in Bridgeport, Hartford and Hamden...

Community College Times - AOTC Extended in 'Fiscal Cliff' Plan (January 2, 2013) - The "fiscal cliff" legislation passed this week by Congress includes some good news for community colleges, including an extension of tax credits that benefit two-year college students...

Hartford Courant - 'Paintings By Daniel Bohman' At Pearl Street Gallery In Hartford (January 3, 2012) - Daniel Bohman admits that he is confused about reality...Bohman, 28, is a graduate of Glastonbury High, Manchester Community College and Central Connecticut State University. He has loved to draw since he was a child...

Educations News - Research: For Students, Kindness to Others Boosts Popularity (December 28, 2012) - In the wake of the Newtown shootings, social interactions between students is gaining more attention, with some experts saying that the way students treat each other can be a determining factor in a school's overall well-being...

Bloomberg Businessweek - The Fiscal Cliff Deal and the Damage Done (January 2, 2012) - Ordinarily we call a deal in which neither side gets what it wants a victory for democracy. Shared sacrifice produces moderation and probity...

Inside Higher Ed - The Year Ahead in IT, 2013 (January 3, 2013) - Those reading this column or any of its annual predecessors (in 2012, 2011, 2010, or 2009) are invited to reflect that the historic challenges facing universities and colleges are less related to technological disruption or market evolution and more causally related to self-induced bruising, glacial cycles of adaptation, and torturous processes that pass for decision-making...

Inside Higher Ed - What a University Owes a Town (January 2, 2013) - I had a scheduled call with our newspaper publisher in central Connecticut on the morning of Friday, December 14th, to complain about what I thought was an unfair story about the university. But as we began to talk he sounded very different from his usual friendly, open self: the newsroom was just learning the full magnitude of the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary, and he was trying to figure out how to communicate it...

Inside Higher Ed - Data and Craft (January 2, 2013) - I still remember the terror and thrill of having my own class to teach for the first time. It didn't pay much -- this was graduate school, after all -- but the autonomy was wonderful. When I closed the classroom door, it was just me and the students...

Community College Times - Training on Demand (December 31, 2012) - Nearly a decade ago, officials at New Jersey's 19 community colleges sought a way for the state's two-year career and technical college system to work together to more efficiently serve the workforce development needs of the state...