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Rivereast News Bulletin - Bacon Teacher Releases Fourth Book (January 15, 2012) - John L. Stanizzi recently released his fourth book of poems - adding yet another accomplishment to a resume that includes nearly 20 years of teaching English at Bacon ...His first book, titled Windows, was a slim volume published by Manchester Community College, where he has also taught English since 1989... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Nowhere to Turn (January 17, 2013) - If colleges and universities thought they could ride out the current revenue challenges by becoming more like some other institution, Moody's Investors Service has a bit of bad news for them: The grass isn't greener on anybody else's quad. Not even Harvard University's... |
Inside Higher Ed - Shootings Stun 2 Colleges (January 16, 2013) - On Tuesday, the day before President Obama is expected to announce new proposals to control gun violence, two campuses were stunned by shootings... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - Degrees of Durability and the New World of Credentialing (January 15, 2013) - Those that believe a higher education degree is becoming increasingly superfluous make reference to the fact that 19 of the top 100 chief executives in the Fortune 500 lack college degrees... |
Inside Higher Ed - A Free Semester (January 15, 2013) - Marcia Hawkins, the first-year president of Union College in Kentucky, feels a special connection with this year's freshmen, who started at Union the same time she did... |
Inside Higher Ed - Spoiled Children (January 14, 2013) - Much discussion about higher education assumes that the children of wealthy parents have all the advantages, and they certainly have many. But a new study reveals an area where they may be at a disadvantage... |
Inside Higher Ed - Connecticut's Reorganization (January 14, 2013) - The ideas were bold. The execution was quick. The result has left many people -- faculty members, administrators, students, legislators, taxpayers -- skeptical about the effectiveness, if not the underlying strategy, of Connecticut's higher education reorganization... |
AACC News - AACC 2013 Federal Public Policy Issues (January 11, 2013) - What follows is a discussion of some of the major issues in which AACC's government relations staff expect to be engaged in 2013. It should be a busy year... |
Inside Higher Ed - The Pupil Cliff (January 11, 2013) - The United States has hit peak high-school graduate, at least for now. It has certainly passed peak non-Hispanic white high-school graduate... |
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Huff Post - Gen Y College Students Need to Prepare Financially for Careers (January 16, 2013) - Generation Y, or the Millennials, is the successor to Gen X, resulting from a "baby boomlet" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now in college or recently graduated, Gen Ys are running into the stark reality that there are more people competing for fewer jobs in today's tight economy... |
Hartford Courant - Chris Silver Is Passionate Advocate for Town's Neighborhood Improvement Initiative (January 11, 2012) - When Chris Silver was growing up, he lived in a cramped, two-family house on the west side of Manchester with his parents and seven siblings. Now Silver is director of the Manchester Office of Neighborhoods and Families...Silver went to Manchester Community College and then Bryant University... |
Hartford Courant - ARTIST'S CORNER: RYAN KING (January 13, 2012) - Ryan King, of Somers, is 19 years old and is attending his fourth semester at Manchester Community College majoring in visual fine arts... |
Community College Times - Partnership With High Schools Chips Away at Dropout Rate (January 9, 2013) - With coffee shops, wineries, taco joints and an influx of young people, it's easy to confuse downtown New Bedford, Mass.-the former whaling capital of the world-for Boston's college scene... |
CT Mirror - Schools Line Up For State Intervention (January 11, 2013) - Seven school district leaders have informed the Connecticut Department of Education that they are interested in having the state intervene in one of their low performing schools next school year... |
CT Mirror - Education Week Gives Connecticut a C+ (January 11, 2013) -The chances of Connecticut students succeeding when they leave high school are among the best in the nation, and the state spends more for each student than almost every other state after factoring in the region's higher cost of living, according to a national report card released this week by Education Week... |
CT Mirror - Pension Fund Hits 24-Year Low as Repair Plan Begins (January 15, 2013) - The state employee pension system fell to a 24-year-low this fiscal year as investment losses and more conservative projections for future earnings left the fund with enough assets to cover just 42 percent of its obligations, according to a new report... |
CT Mirror - Revenues Shrinking Faster Than State is Making Cuts (January 15, 2013) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's bid to avoid raising taxes in the next state budget took another hit Tuesday as plunging revenue projections undid much of the long-range savings from program cuts he and legislators made late over the last two months... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Rigorous and Precise Thinking (January 17, 2013) - Everything would have been perfectly ordinary that October morning in my freshman writing course at Stanford University. Bright autumn light reflected up from the Main Quad to our third floor... |
Inside Higher Ed - Safety Nets (January 16, 2013) - American Career Institutes, a for-profit higher ed chain that specialized in computer-based career-oriented majors, just closed abruptly. It had campuses in Maryland and Massachusetts, including one in Springfield, which is HCC's largest feeder city... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - When Bad Things Happen to Untenured People (January 12, 2013) - In my second year as an assistant professor, I carefully researched my university's tenure clock and parental-leave policies. My husband, Rob Salmond, was about to start a tenure-track job in my department. We wanted to have children... |
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