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Hartford Courant - Responses to Gun Violence Discussed At Community Forum In Manchester (March 27, 2013) - Four local leaders from different backgrounds came together last week to talk about gun violence in Manchester. Representatives with experience in religion, law enforcement, education and the government were panelists at the first in a series of forums presented by St. Bridget Church at Manchester Community College... |
Glastonbury Citizen - Boy Scouts from Troop 156 Attend Hunger 101 Class (March 26, 2013) - Boy Scouts from Troop 156 Attend Hunger 101 Class Boy Scouts from Glastonbury Troop 156 attended a "Hunger 101" class February 16 offered by Foodshare volunteer Lucy Hurston, Chair of the Sociology Department at Manchester Community College... |
Journal Inquirer - College Prep Program Helps Class of 2018 Get Jumpstart on Future (March 23, 2013) - Seventh-graders at East Hartford Middle School are getting a head start on their college preparation, thanks to a federally funded program that will follow their class through high school and beyond. Along with schools in Waterbury and New Haven, the middle school was chosen to be a cohort in the GEAR UP program by the state's Board of Regents... |
Hartford Business Journal - Manchester College Hosting Friday Job Fair (March 21, 2013) - The Manchester Community College annual regional job fair, featuring more than 60 company recruiters for jobs from entry level to management... |
West Hartford News - Connecticut Colleges Named to President's Honor Roll for Community Service (March 18, 2013) - The Corporation for National and Community Service has named 14 Connecticut colleges and universities to the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal distinction an institution of higher education can receive for its commitment to improving their communities through community service and service learning... |
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Inside Higher Ed - State Budgeters' View of Higher Ed (March 27, 2013) - A report published today seeks to sort out the realities and misconceptions about state funding of higher education from a perspective rarely heard: that of the state budget officers themselves... |
Community College Times - From Ex-Felon to Lauded Poet and Teacher (March 25, 2013) - Reginald Dwayne Betts knew that a lot of people saw his decision to attend a community college "as a step backward instead of forward." And he was determined to prove them wrong... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - Does Community Engagement Have a Place in a Placeless University? (March 25, 2013) - It will be truly ironic if the most impersonal technology of all ends up saving the most personal kind of teaching and learning in higher education. I speak about the dramatic rise of online learning and MOOCs. Everyone, it seems, is talking about and questioning the relevance and "value proposition" of higher education... |
Hartford Business Journal - Tuition at CT's State Colleges Climbing Again (March 22, 2013) - Connecticut's state universities are increasing tuition and fees for nearly 100,000 students...Board of Regents for Higher Education approved the increase Thursday... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - A Way to Promote Student Motivation and Autonomy (March 22, 2013) - Vermont's Landmark College has been exclusively serving students with Learning Disabilities since 1985 when it opened its doors for a dyslexic population of college-ready students. Our mission now also includes those with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and those on the autism spectrum... |
Community College Times - Plus 50 Program Expands its College Roster (March 22, 2013) - Thirty-six Community Colleges are joining the ranks of a national program to train 10,000 baby boomers over the next three years for new jobs in health care, education and social service while helping them complete certificates or degrees... |
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Chronicle of Higher Ed - The Unintended Consequences of Ending Merit Aid (March 25, 2013) - This winter, when a group of private-college presidents decried the escalating use of merit aid and pledged to focus their support on needy students, their message was welcomed by many. Merit aid is wasteful, some educators and experts say, maybe even immoral when most colleges can't meet students' financial need... |
Inside Higher Ed - Giving Back (March 27, 2013) - Students at Rhodes College are collaborating to create the first-ever newspaper for the homeless created by (non-homeless) students. This month will see the launch of The Bridge, a street paper founded by sophomores James Ekenstedt and Evan Katz, which aims to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in the Memphis area... |
Reminder News - Annual Tournament Honors Josh Smialek (March 20, 2013) - Sometimes something good can come out of a tragedy. Such is the case with former Stafford High School student Josh Smialek who was killed in a car accident five years ago... |
CT Mirror - Searching for a Teachable Moment in Torrington (March 27, 2013) - As TV cameras persist outside their doors nearly a week after vicious online comments about an alleged statutory rape victim went viral, Torrington Public School officials are wrestling with difficult questions... |
CT Mirror - Legislators: No More Blank Check for College Presidents (March 26, 2013) - The presidents of the state's public colleges may soon be required to report how they are spending the thousands of dollars they receive each year to cover their job-related travel and entertainment expenses... |
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Chronicle of Higher Ed - Walk Deliberately, Don't Run, Toward Online Education (March 25, 2013) - A far more sophisticated observer of digital trends than I am, President John Hennessy of Stanford University, has been quoted as saying: "There's a tsunami coming. [But] I can't tell you exactly how it's going to break." Since I live on the East Coast, I am even less capable of judging tsunamis, their shape, their force, or their timing, but I, too, am convinced that online learning could be truly transformative... |
Inside Higher Ed - Friday Fragments (March 21, 2013) - Get a Job or Your Tuition is Free! The App Academy, in San Francisco, offers a 9 week, 90 hour per week boot camp to train people as programmers. In return, the students pay 15 percent of the salaries they land for the first year... |
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