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50th Birthday Celebration (September 17, 2013) - MCC's 50th Birthday Celebration kicked off today with a birthday cake cutting by President Glickman and dignitaries during the Fall Welcome Festival... |
Hartford Courant - Sally Matson Portrays Margaret Bourke-White (September 15, 2013) - Manchester Community College Organization of Active Adults is presenting a free program ...Sally Matson, native New Englander; actress, educator, portrays Margaret Bourke-White. Bourke-White is an American treasure...
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Inside Higher Ed - Mini MOOC Minors (September 18, 2013) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will this fall package some of its online courses into more cohesive sequences, just as edX prepares to roll out certificates of completion using identity verification... |
Community College Times - N.J. Revamps its Radiology Laws - Thanks to Two College Leaders (September 16, 2013) - A community college dean and the college's director of nuclear medicine technology have helped to bring New Jersey radiology laws up to speed... |
Community College Times - Overcoming Hurdles in Cybersecurity (September 13, 2013) - More community colleges are developing programs to meet the growing demand for more trained "information assurance"-or cybersecurity-professionals, but students coming from two-year programs are having difficulty getting into the cybersecurity workforce... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Report Signals Promising Strategies for Remedial Education (September 12, 2013) - Remedial education is being fast-tracked, served up in bite-sized pieces, and made more relevant to students' career goals as states and community colleges experiment with ways to keep them from getting discouraged and dropping out, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office... |
Inside Higher Ed - Going to the Root of the Problem (September 13, 2013) - A group of community colleges in Tennessee is going into local high schools to try to help more students get ready for college math... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - Credit for What You Know, Not How Long You Sit (September 10, 2013) - Zach Sherman earned an associate degree from us in just under 100 days. He did in about three months what many students struggle to do in two years in full-time degree programs... |
Hartford Courant - Walking Tour of Cheney Historic District (September 21, 2013) - Come explore the Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District ... features Chris Paulin, Director of Manchester Community College's Institute of Local History... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Enrollments and Course Offerings Bounce Back at California 2-Year Colleges (September 12, 2013) - The California Community Colleges, bolstered by voters' passage of Proposition 30 last year, are beginning to see increased enrollment and the restoration of class sections after years of state-budget cuts caused declines in both areas, according to the results of a systemwide survey... |
CT Mirror - 'The Board of Regents Ate My Homework' (September 13, 2013) - "I tried to do my homework but the Board of Regents ate it," Community College student Parke Stearns wants his professor to know. It's an excuse that just might work... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Mixed Signals (September 17, 2013) - There's a wonderful moment in the comment stream to this piece by George Boggs. Boggs argues that colleges often mistake a particular institutional form for the mission, and in so doing, neglect their mission... |
Community College Times - Germany's Skills Initiative Provides Valuable Lessons (September 16, 2013) - As president of Stark State College, I was honored to be selected to represent Ohio community and technical colleges during a recent trip to Germany to study the dual system of education and training known as the German Skills Initiative... |
Inside Higher Ed - Should Gen Eds Be Free? (September 16, 2013) - Sherman Dorn caught my eye recently with a proposal that "general education" courses at community colleges should be offered for free... |
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