|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Manchester Community College Foundation Appoints New Members to Board (October 16, 2013) - The Manchester Community College Foundation recently appointed two new members to its board of directors... |
Hartford Courant - Legal Aid for People in Connecticut (October 15, 2013) - Manchester Community College Organization of Active Adults is presenting a free program, "Legal Aid for People in Connecticut." Claudia Magnan is the Pro Bono program coordinator with Statewide Legal Services in Connecticut, Inc... |
|
Inside Higher Ed - Commotion App (October 16, 2013) - The initial early application deadline for campuses including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Georgia Institute of Technology came and went yesterday, and hundreds of students missed it... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - The Emergence of Three Distinct Worldviews Among American College Students (October 15, 2013) - American college students' worldviews affect what they value, the way they behave and potentially how they learn. We have found that today's students are divided not dichotomously, between religious and secular, but rather among three distinct worldviews... |
Inside Higher Ed - Success in the States (October 15, 2013) - Keeping up with the national college completion "agenda" can be tough. Foundations have created a messy mélange of strategies and organizations, often under the watchful eye of policy-minded state lawmakers, with the goal of getting more students to graduation... |
Inside Higher Ed - Americans' Views of Online Courses (October 15, 2013) - A majority of Americans believe online instruction is at least as good as classroom-based courses in terms of providing good value, a format most students can succeed in, and instruction tailored to each individual... |
Community College Times - Hiring More Full-Time Faculty to Improve Student Success (October 11, 2013) - Over the past few years, the Maricopa Community College District in Arizona dealt with cutbacks in state aid and soaring enrollment by gradually shifting its staff balance toward adjuncts and away from full-time faculty... |
Inside Higher Ed - Two-Tiered Tuition is Back (October 11, 2013) - A small group of California community colleges can now experiment with charging more for high-demand courses... |
Journal Inquirer - Manchester Initiative to Help Young Artists (October 14, 2013) - A group of area art supporters are planning what it hopes will be a community center devoted to fostering young painters, sculptors, and other creators... Mentors will include members of the Manchester Art Association, students at Manchester Community College, and other area artists...
|
Chronicle of Higher Ed - How to Respond to Govt. Shutdown? Talk About It, Says Higher-Education Lobby (October 11, 2013) - The six major associations representing higher education on Thursday released a joint response to the federal-government shutdown. Instead of calling on lawmakers to resolve the situation, the groups suggest a sort-of nationwide teach-in as an antidote to the political dysfunction that threatens to throw the economy into a tailspin... |
Opinion |
Inside Higher Ed - Who's the Customer? (October 16, 2013) - At NACCE I briefly got into a colloquy with a very young, very self-assured investor who asserted confidently that "young people" don't care a whit about institutions or tradition, and that they will desert public higher ed en masse as soon as a better deal comes along, which is already happening... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - A Study to Measure Value of Community Colleges Falls Short (October 14, 2013) - A recent report issued by the Nexus Research and Policy Center and the American Institutes for Research, "What's the Value of an Associate's Degree? The Return on Investment for Graduates and Taxpayers," tackles an important topic that is timely for both college students and policy makers. Unfortunately, the report misses the mark in providing information on which either group can take action... |
Inside Higher Ed - Leadership and Entrepreneurship (October 14, 2013) - I've been at the NACCE (National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina for the last couple of days. It has been a remarkable and remarkably packed set of discussions, but I've been particularly struck by what I see as two different ideas of what "leadership" means in the context of making community colleges more entrepreneurial... |
| Upcoming Events |
 | |
The Pulse is e-mailed to Manchester Community College Faculty & Staff every Thursday. Stay in touch with MCC! Subscribe to RSS feeds for current news and events, or join the Manchester Community College page on Facebook.  Follow us on twitter.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
