AP - Conn. College Offers Degree in Video Game Design (January 9, 2012) - Manchester Community College is joining other colleges to offer an associate's degree program in video game design. The Journal Inquirer reports that Professor Edward Hogan says Connecticut does not have a large gaming industry similar to California, Florida or the Boston area. But he says the state's tax-credit program for the entertainment industry has led to some growth...

News 8 - Community College Offers Degree in Video Game Design (January 9, 2012) - Manchester Community College is joining other colleges to offer an associate's degree program in video game design...

Community College Times - Project Aims to Tie Together Student Support Services (January 7, 2013) - Ten community colleges will join a national project to bundle student support services to help students succeed in their academics...

Inside Higher Ed - Better Than We Think (January 10, 2013) - Professors usually don't make the best teachers, goes a common critique of higher education, especially those at research universities. But a new book challenges that argument, painting the professoriate as an overwhelmingly self-reflective group striving to achieve better learning outcomes over the course of their academic careers...

Inside Higher Ed - If You Build It, Will They Come? (January 10, 2013) - Roger L. Perkins directs the Veterans Support Center at the University of Utah. He's had bedrooms that are bigger than his campus office, whose paper-thin walls make it easy for a sobbing student to be overheard next door...

Inside Higher Ed - Making the Case for Adjuncts (January 9, 2013) - By now, it's hard to imagine than many people in academe haven't heard about how most adjuncts work for years at low pay, and under conditions that hinder their efforts to help students...

CT Mirror - Double-Digit Tuition Increases Being Considered by College System (January 8, 2013) - Faced with cuts in state funding, declining student enrollment and mandatory pay raises for faculty, the Board of Regents for Higher Education is considering raising tuition by as much as 12.4 percent next school year...

Inside Higher Ed - Growth for Online Learning (January 8, 2013) - MOOCs may have snared most of the headlines, but traditional, credit-based online learning continued to chug along just fine last year, thank you very much...

New England Board of Higher Ed - Honoring MLK on New England Campuses (January 8, 2013) - As part of its celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Eastern Connecticut State University will present a 12-part series looking back on the life of the man considered the greatest civil rights leader of the past century. Had he lived, King would have turned 84 this year...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed - How Many Administrators Are Too Many? (January 7, 2013) -For years, faculty members have pointed to the sluggish growth in the number of tenured professors and complained that university payrolls are filled with too many administrators. This, they maintain, adds unnecessary costs and takes the focus away from teaching and learning...

Inside Higher Ed - Baby Steps for Need-Based Aid (January 7, 2013) - The fledgling campaign by some private college presidents to persuade their peers to wean their institutions from financial aid awarded without regard to students' financial need has not exactly caught fire...

Community College Spotlight - Remedial Math Students Learn to Persist (January 10, 2012) -  Andrea Levy, Statway instructor at Seattle Central Community College, talks about how she gives developmental math students the intellectual and emotional support they need to persist and succeed...

CT Mirror - Charter Schools (Once Again) Line Up to Open in the State (January 9, 2013) - Despite daunting odds, 24 people have informed state officials they are interested in opening a new charter school in the state sometime in the next two school years. Proposed schools include a new charter in Hartford for high school dropouts, a science academy in New Haven for middle school students, and a dual language program in Windham...

CT Mirror - Federal Tax Hikes Could Loom Over State Budget Debate (January 9, 2013) - While most coverage of the "fiscal cliff" tax debate centered on the nation's wealthiest households, middle class consumers quickly are learning they will pay more this year as well...

Inside Higher Ed - Uncertain Stories (January 9, 2013) - The evidence that stories are effective and efficient teaching tools is generally based on test results -- improved reading, writing, science and math scores. But in terms of teaching sustainability concepts, stories have an additional advantage...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - In Defense of Equal Tuition for All Majors (January 7, 2013) - Should English and history majors be forced to pay higher tuition than engineering students do? Yes, according to a recently released draft report from a Florida task force on higher education...

Facts and Other Fairy Tales - The Least Stressful Job for 2013? A Real Look at Being a Professor in the US (January 4, 2013) - The brain trust at CNBC just published this little fluff piece about the least stressful jobs for 2013 and of course the least stressful job was being a university professor. Their rationale? There are no physical demands, no deadlines, no environmental condition hazards, we don't put our lives on the line, nor are we responsible for other peoples' lives...