Sunday Bulletin - State Legislators Take Up School Safety Strategies (January 27, 2013) - When it comes to security systems at its schools...College President Gena Glickman said the purpose is to speed up the response time if an incident does happen on her campus...

Inside Higher Ed - A New Accreditation System? (February 14, 2013) - In President Obama's few sentences about higher education in the State of the Union address Tuesday night, there might have been a presidential precedent set: the first allusion to postsecondary accreditation in the landmark annual address to Congress...

ccnewsnow.com - Improving Completion Rates of Minority Community College Students Transferring to Four-Year Colleges (February 12, 2013) - As the United States seeks to recapture its prominent economic position in the world, one policy issue that has received significant interest within the government and other circles is the completion rate of college students. America once had the largest percentage of college graduates among the nations of the world. Today, we are only 12th in the percentage of adults ages 25-34 with a college degree...

Inside Higher Ed - Transcript for Work (February 12, 2013) - The rap on college transcripts is that they don't tell employers much, thanks to grade inflation and the failure of conventional grades to predict performance on the job. So to try to give their students' transcripts more heft, a two-year college in Missouri now includes not only their grades, but a job readiness score and their attendance rate as well...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed - Community Colleges Respond to Demand for STEM Graduates (February 11, 2013) - As concerns grow over impending work-force shortages in science and technology fields, educators are looking to community colleges to fill the gap...

Inside Higher Ed - Nemo on Campus (February 11, 2013) - Many colleges in New England closed Friday and for some or all of the weekend to deal with the impact of a massive blizzard (widely, but not officially called Nemo) that left more than two feet of snow in parts of the region...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed - Tough Times Push More Small Colleges to Join Forces (February 11, 2013) -Maybe it was providence that put two well-respected liberal-arts colleges together in a town of 20,000 people in rural Minnesota. Maybe it was luck...

Journal Inquirer - Police Records Supervisor Retires After Lifetime of Service (February 4, 2013) - After nearly 50 years in law enforcement, Louis Palshaw. the Police Department's records supervisor, retired in January...Palshaw studied law enforcement at Manchester Community College and graduated with his associate's degree in the early 1970s...

Community College Times - Partnership Taps Reverse Transfers To Boost College Completion (February 14, 2013) - With college completion rates under increasing scrutiny and institutional accountability of growing importance, a new partnership by our two Southern New Jersey colleges takes a novel approach to improving graduation rates, while creating winning options for students and both colleges...

Inside Higher Ed - Dads (February 12, 2013) - One of the reasons I like President Obama is that he's clearly a Dad. I don't just mean that he has children; I mean that he's obviously an involved parent. (If you haven't seen the video of the two-year-old at the Medal of Honor ceremony, check it out. Obama responded as a seasoned parent would...