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Author Steve Straight to Read at The University Of Connecticut (October 1, 2013) - The University of Connecticut's Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that poet Steve Straight will read from his work... Steve Straight is professor of English and director of the poetry program at Manchester Community College... |
Hartford Courant - Senior Fair at Manchester Community College (October 1, 2013) - The 4th Senate District Senior Fair - featuring health screenings, benefits information and access to government leaders - is scheduled for Oct. 9 from 1-3 p.m. at Great Path Academy, Manchester Community College... |
Ellington-Somers Patch - MCC Ranks 6th on RateMyProfessors.com List of Two-Year Colleges (September 29, 2013) - Manchester Community College received a unique accolade Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013, when mtvU's RateMyProfessors.com released its list of top professors and colleges - and MCC found itself ranked sixth on the list for top community and junior colleges throughout the nation... |
Hartford Courant - MCC Offers New Course In Technical Communications (September 26, 2013) - Manchester Community College's Continuing Education Division is offering a new course designed to build communication skills for engineers, architects, web software designers, insurance professionals and others who need to communicate ideas, concepts and information to a technically savvy audience... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Course-Size Accreditation (October 2, 2013) - A growing clamor is calling for an accreditor to oversee the quality of college-level learning that occurs outside of college... |
AACC - AACC Statement on Nexus/AIR Report, What's the Value of an Associate's Degree? (October 2, 2013) - The Nexus/AIR report, What's the Value of An Associate's Degree?, asks important questions that community college officials and policymakers themselves have long posed. Unfortunately, the report's answers are deeply compromised by its basic assumptions. The report is especially damaging and misleading in asserting that there is a negative return on the public's investment in community colleges-a finding contradicted by many other studies... |
Inside Higher Ed - $6 Can Make a Difference (October 1, 2013) - In an era when sticker price at some colleges tops $60,000, it may seem odd to think that $6 could make a difference in students' decisions about the institutions to which they apply... |
Inside Higher Ed - Default Rates Rise Again (October 1, 2013) - The rate at which borrowers of federal student loans default on their debt within two years after beginning repayment rose for the sixth consecutive year, reaching its highest level since 1995, according to data released Monday by the Education Department... |
Community College Times - DHS Will Expand Cybersecurity Intern Program (September 30, 2013) - A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) summer internship program for community college students focusing on cybersecurity was so successful, the department plans to ramp it up... |
Community College Times - Going Hands on at a Power Plant (September 27, 2013) - After months of classroom lectures and book work, students studying nuclear engineering technology (NET) at the College of Southern Maryland (CSM) had an opportunity don hardhats, safety glasses, ear protection and gloves as they completed summer internships at a local power plant... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Most Students Are Unprepared for College, SAT Results Show (September 26, 2013) - Less than half of the students who took the SAT in 2013 are ready to succeed in postsecondary education, according to a report released on Thursday by the College Board, which owns the SAT... |
Inside Higher Ed - Union Win (September 27, 2013) - Tufts University adjuncts announced their successful union bid Thursday, making them the first to do so as part of a "metro strategy" to organize adjuncts across Boston... |
Hartford Courant - Hidden Still: CT's Moonshine Bar (October 3, 2013) - Max Collins, 23, knows he's young, even for a first-time restaurant owner. But he's using youth to his advantage... Pastry chef Nicole Calabretta, a recent graduate of Manchester Community College's culinary program, is assisting Martin in the kitchen and producing a rotating selection of sweets... |
Hartford Courant - Critics' Choice (September 29, 2013) - The new chairman of the board of directors of Greater Hartford Arts Council is Charles D. Gill...The board has five new members..Gena Glickman of Manchester Community College... |
Rivereast News Bulletin - Yellow Ribbon Ceremony Sends Off Three Soldiers (September 25, 2013) - Despite questionable weather all afternoon, East Hampton's yellow ribbon-tying ceremony went on as scheduled ... Reid, 26, furthered his EHHS education at Manchester Community... |
Inside Higher Ed - Plans for a Shutdown (September 30, 2013) - As the clock runs down on a Monday night deadline for Congress to reach agreement on a funding measure or else force most of government to close, the Obama administration is providing details on how federal agencies would operate during a shutdown... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Not Everyone is a Digital Native (October 1, 2013) - ...I'm wondering how different campuses or organizations out there handle helping out students or clients or customers who need really basic computer help... |
Inside Higher Ed - Isolation and Jobs (September 30, 2013) - Folks who have been following the academic labor market for some time are familiar with the "two-body problem." It's an inelegant term for the difficulty that couples have in finding good jobs for both people that are geographically close enough that they can continue to live together... |
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