Manchester Patch - Manchester Community College Student Shares Her Experience During School Lockdown (March 6, 2013) - Molly Norton, a Manchester Community College student who was among the last to be released from the Campus Wednesday evening as police searched for a reported gunman, shared her ordeal with Patch shortly after, including huddling in a darkened classroom and students going to the bathroom in bowls and buckets as they waited for police to clear the scene...

Inside Higher Ed - Adjuncts on File (March 7, 2013) - New Jersey's community colleges will this year consolidate how they hire and train non-tenure-track instructors, but some adjuncts are concerned the program will make it more difficult to find teaching opportunities in the state...

CT Mirror - Is UConn Starving for Investment or Pigging Out on Cash? (March 6, 2013) - Depending on to whom you talk, the University of Connecticut is either starving for more state investment or it is already pigging out. "It appears [UConn is] a man eating with two forks...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed - Students and States Near a 50-50 Split on the Cost of Public Higher Education (March 6, 2013) - Public higher education is about to cross a historic threshold, in which students pay a higher percentage than do states of the operating costs of colleges...

Inside Higher Ed - Learning How to Teach (March 5, 2013) - Amid the various influences that massive open online courses have had on higher education in their short life so far -- the topic of a daylong conference here Monday -- this may be among the more unexpected: The courses may be prompting some faculty to pay more attention to their teaching styles than they ever have before...

The Chronicle of Higher Ed - A College Degree Sorts Job Applicants, but Employers Wish It Meant More (March 4, 2013) - Employers value a four-year college degree, many of them more than ever. Yet half of those surveyed recently by The Chronicle and American Public Media's Marketplace said they had trouble finding recent graduates qualified to fill positions at their company or organization...

Inside Higher Ed - Change From Within (March 4, 2013) - If higher education has a group of quintessential insiders, it's probably the American Council on Education. Yet from a perch atop the higher education lobby's headquarters here, the membership association of 1,800 college presidents is backing high-profile "disruptions" to the industry it represents...

Journal Inquirer - A Taste of Art (March 5, 2013) - Josh Apgar, 5. of Windsor, top, takes a look at his fruit carving during a workshop Thursday at the Wilson Branch Library in Windsor. The class was taught by Kwauneesha Baxter, left, a Windsor resident and culinary student at Manchester Community College...

Inside Higher Ed - Office Web Apps Or Google Docs for Online Learning? (March 6, 2013) - I'm faced with a dilemma, and I hope that you can help? My team is working to introduce improved collaboration tools for our online learners. We have concluded that the native Wiki and file exchange features in our LMS are insufficient for the sort of rich collaboration that our student teams need. Uploading and downloading files is too cumbersome and error prone...

Inside Higher Ed - Short Term, Long Term (March 5, 2013) - Back in my faculty days at DeVry, during the Clinton years, students would ask me on a regular basis why they had to take "general education" courses, like mine. They would have preferred to do nothing other than their technical classes, and they weren't shy about saying so...