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Manchester Patch - Manchester Community College Discusses Campus Security After Lockdown (March 12, 2013) - Gena Glickman, president of Manchester Community College, took to the microphone Monday afternoon in an "open forum" setting to allow staff and students at the state's largest community college to sound off and asks questions about an incident last week that resulted in the campus being locked down for most of the day... |
Hartford Courant - Chief Discusses Gun Violence (March 11, 2013) - "Active shooter" scenarios have been a continuing focus for Police Chief Marc Montminy, especially since Aug. 3,2010, when he and his officers answered frantic calls from a local beer warehouse... |
AP - Manchester College President Seeks Armed Police (March 10, 2013) - The president of Manchester Community College is again questioning a state ban on armed campus police just days after a lockdown when a student reported seeing a man with what she believed was a gun in his waistband... |
Journal Inquirer - Lecture Probes Irish Life in North Manchester (March 1, 2013) - The Manchester Historical Society will present "Irish Life in North Manchester" a lecture by former State Sen. Mary Ann Handley ... A retired Manchester Community College history professor, Mary Ann Handley will address the questions... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Outsourcing Public Higher Ed (March 13, 2013) - A powerful California lawmaker wants public college students who are shut out of popular courses to attend low-cost online alternatives - including those offered by for-profit companies - and he plans to encourage the state's public institutions to grant credit for those classes... |
Central Connecticut State University student Cameron Sutphion is mindful of the cost of college, so he saves money where he can. He started off his college career at a more affordable community college, lives with his parents in Enfield and commutes to school to avoid having to take out student loans for the price of living on campus... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - Improving Math Success in Higher Education Institutions (March 11, 2013) - Many students begin higher education unprepared for college-level work in mathematics and must take non-credit developmental courses. Furthermore, many are math-phobic and avoid courses, majors and careers that involve quantitative work... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Open-Education Company Helps Develop Textbook-Free Associate Degree (March 11, 2013) - Universities and foundations have poured more than $100-million into creating open-education materials. But according to David Wiley, an open-education advocate for 15 years, faculty members and administrators have been slow to use the resources as alternatives to expensive textbooks... |
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 - Top Faculty at State Colleges: 'Dangerous Signs ... We Are Being Downgraded' (March 7, 2013) - Long-simmering resentment on the part of a group of distinguished professors at the four Connecticut State Universities toward the University of Connecticut has boiled over in a letter to state officials blasting what they say is the latest example of inequity -- a proposal by the governor to increase funding to UConn... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Less Funding for Soldiers (March 11, 2013) - The U.S. Army announced Friday that it will freeze all new applications for service members' tuition assistance, temporarily eliminating a much relied-on program for soldiers and sending universities scrambling to identify alternative sources of funding for their students... |
New York Times - A Dangerous 'New Normal' in College Debt (March 8, 2013) - As college tuitions rise and state and local funding for higher education falls - along with median household incomes - students are taking on staggering levels of debt... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - The Second-Chance Club (March 11, 2013) - Nobody wants to be here. In remedial English, earning no credit, stuck. Now-after months of commas, clauses, and four-paragraph essays-students have one last chance to write their way out... |
Education News - Research: Sorting Students by Ability Increases Achievement (March 11, 2013) - Sorting students by ability substantially helps their achievement in mathematics and reading, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The authors looked at student performance in schools that sort their classrooms by skills and those that do not and compared the outcomes... |
Inside Higher Ed - Dueling Plans for Federal Spending (March 13, 2013) - It's budget season on Capitol Hill, and so far, the mandatory budget cuts that took effect earlier this month seem here to stay... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Colleges Hold Out Hope of Avoiding Steep Cuts in Funds (March 11, 2013) - Deep federal spending cuts that both Democrats and Republicans had hoped to avoid were set into motion March 1, as Congress failed to act in time to prevent or postpone the reductions. The $85-billion cut to the federal budget, known as sequestration, leaves colleges uncertain about how reductions in federal appropriations will affect them... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Affirmative Action Helped Me (March 12, 2013) - I'm not ashamed to admit that without affirmative action, I'm not certain I would be on the precipice of the law career that I'm at right now. As an African-American woman from a poor family, I have little doubt that affirmative action helped me get into college, earn a degree, and enroll in law school... |
Inside Higher Ed - Why Don't Men Return to College? (March 12, 2013) - You know how the hook of a song can get stuck in your head, or how you sorta, kinda recognize an actor in something and you can't stop trying to remember where you've seen him before... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Top Students, Too, Aren't Always Ready for College (March 11, 2013) - One recent morning over coffee, I was talking with a colleague about a rising source of frustration for him and his fellow faculty members: how unprepared for college-level coursework so many incoming students are, even at our highly selective university... |
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