Hartford Courant - UConn Master Gardener to Speak at Garden Club (February 3, 2013) - The monthly meeting of the Manchester Garden Club will...Gregoire is a University of Connecticut Certified Master Gardener. He is an engineer and an adjunct professor at Manchester Community College...

Community College Times - Community Colleges Can Help Fill IT Skills Gap (February 7, 2013) - When a community college official said her college is getting ready to close its programming department because there aren't enough information technology jobs for people with associate degrees, the panelists at a session of the Workforce Development Institute urged her to rethink that plan...

Inside Higher Ed - Don't Call Me That (February 6, 2013) - Bring readings to class, either in hard copy or electronic format. Sign up for a blog account in order to contribute to online class discussions. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Don't call me "professor...

Inside Higher Ed - Holding Firm on Guns (February 5, 2013) - "We cannot urge students to have the courage to speak out unless we are willing to do so ourselves." Those are the words of the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, invoked Monday by Oglethorpe University President Lawrence M. Schall. Hesburgh was lamenting what he saw as a loss of willingness among college presidents to speak out on important public issues...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - For Making the Most of College, It's Still Location, Location, Location (February 4, 2013) - In late December, a set of articles and essays in The New York Times focused on the public library as a place, and on the changing meaning of that place with the rise of electronic books and the demise of brick-and-mortar bookstores like Borders...

Inside Higher Ed - Finding More STEM Students (February 1, 2013) - That the country needs more science, technology, engineering, and math graduates is a common refrain, but there has been little consensus about how to achieve this goal, and recent announcements from two public universities showcase very different strategies...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Conn. and Mass. Governors Propose Big Spending Increases for Higher Education (January 31, 2013) - The governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts are each calling for major increases in higher-education spending. But they are taking very different approaches toward what to spend the money on and how to pay for it...

Inside Higher Ed - No Pell Shortfall for 2014 (February 7, 2013) - Reports of the Pell Grant's imminent peril have been exaggerated, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday...

Journal Inquirer - MCC Women's Basketball (February 4, 2013) - Haley Cole of Hebron had 13 points, while Arianna Rivera had 10 points...

Inside Higher Ed - Rethinking the Completion Agenda (February 7, 2013) - Not long ago, a good friend and outstanding college president moved from El Paso Community College, where for a decade he had led a complete transformation of the college and the results its students achieved, to Austin Community College, a college ready for much the same kind of transformational leadership...

Chronicle of Higher Ed - Colleges Should Require Business 101 for Every Student (February 4, 2013) - According to the latest jobs report, released last month by the Labor Department, the U.S. unemployment rate remained at a lackluster 7.8 percent for December. More alarming was a report from Generation Opportunity, released the same day, placing the unemployment rate for those under age 30 at 11.5 percent, or nearly 50 percent higher than the national average...