Hartford Courant - Four Connecticut Top Workplace Winners Place In New National List

(January 31, 2013) - Four employers who were among the winners of The Courant/FOX CT Top Workplaces award in 2012 have placed in a new ranking of the 150 Top Workplaces in America...

Hartford Courant - MCC Credit-Free Programs Announces Nearly 100 New Courses for Spring 2013 (January 29, 2013) - Manchester Community College Credit-Free Programs has released its latest catalog of course offerings...

Inside Higher Ed - Can Funding Be Fair? (January 31, 2013) - The 10-campus University of California likes to style itself as one university. It has one governing board that sets the same tuition rates for all campuses, its campuses use the same admissions process and it has one line in the state budget...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Connecticut Governor Seeks $1.5-Billion Boost for STEM Fields at UConn (January 31, 2013) - Public colleges in most states are expecting little or no increase in state appropriations for the coming fiscal year. But Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut, a Democrat, is proposing to pump $1.5-billion into the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields at the University of Connecticut over the next decade...

Inside Higher Ed - Spending Money to Make Money (January 30, 2013) - An associate degree is typically a cost-effective investment, for both students and state governments, yet community colleges continue to draw the short straw during budget season...

Inside Higher Ed - Not Rushing Into MOOCs (January 29, 2013) - News of universities partnering with massive open online course providers has become commonplace, which is why Yale University stands out for what it's not doing: rushing...

New England Board of Higher Ed - Bill Would Require In-State Tuition for all Vets at Public Campuses Regardless of Residency (January 28, 2013) - In-state tuition for veterans. On Tuesday, House Veterans' Affairs Committee Chair Jeff Miller (R-FL) and Ranking Member Michael Michaud (D-ME) introduced the GI Bill Tuition Fairness Act (H.R. 357) in the House of Representatives. The bill would require public universities to charge in-state tuition to veterans in order to qualify to receive veterans' education benefits...

Inside Higher Ed - The College Grad/Employment Mismatch (January 28, 2013) - For several years running now, with dueling reports and "Jane, you ignorant slut"-style op-eds in these pages and elsewhere, Richard Vedder and Anthony Carnevale have been arguing about the influence of college-going in the job market...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Students Get Savvier About Textbook Buying (January 27, 2013) - Ask Johnny Lazzarini whether he ever skips buying textbooks, and the Foothill College student laughs. "When I look at a syllabus and it says, 'required text,' I think in my head, Oh, that's adorable," says Mr. Lazzarini, 21, a biology major at this Silicon Valley community college...

Inside Higher Ed - A Financial Aid Overhaul (January 29, 2013) - The latest white paper from a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded effort to rethink the nation's financial aid system argues for a near-total overhaul -- shoring up the Pell Grant, reducing the amount many students and parents can borrow, and using federal aid to encourage colleges to better serve students from low-income backgrounds...

Hartford Courant - Flynn Named Among 2013 New Leaders In Banking (January 31, 2013) - The Connecticut Bankers Association and Connecticut Banking magazine have named Donna Flynn among its New Leaders In Banking...

Inside Higher Ed - Peeling the Onion (January 30, 2013) - A couple years ago, The Onion ran a story headlined "Unemployment High Because People Keep Blowing Their Job Interviews." I was reminded of that in reading about the governor of North Carolina, Patrick McCrory, and his fusillades against the liberal arts in general and gender studies in particular. He's the latest in a string of governors to declare that the recession lingers because students keep studying the wrong things, like he did...

CT Mirror - Education Spending and Transparency? (January 29, 2013) - A national review of the transparency of each state's 10 largest school districts shows Connecticut's districts have much room for improvement...

Inside Higher Ed - Class Size Matters (January 29, 2013) - In October, during the final 2012 U.S. presidential debate, the topic of class size came up within the context of global competitiveness. Although the candidates were mainly arguing the benefits of small classes in K-12 education, the issue deserves attention within higher education...