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| 'Memoir and Monologue' Students to Read Personal Essays at MCC on Main
(October 22, 2013) - Three Manchester Community College Continuing Education students will read personal essays at the college's MCC on Main location at 903 Main Street from noon to 1 p.m., Saturday, October 26. This entertaining and inspiring event caps off the students' experience in a course about how your own life stories contain valuable lessons...
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Senator Chris Murphy Visits MCC (October 19, 2013) - US Senator Chris Murphy visited MCC on October 18 to meet with a small group of students to talk about the spiraling cost of higher education and to answer questions about issues affecting today's college students... |
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Dr. Gregory Gray Visits MCC (October 15, 2013) - BOR President Gregory Gray visited MCC as the 13th stop on his 17-campus ConnSCU tour. He met with the college's management team, followed by a meetings with members of the community, as well as faculty, staff and students. This visit was an opportunity for him to share future plans for public higher education in Connecticut, as well as to answer questions from the various audiences... |
Hartford Courant - 'Habitat' At Manchester CC (October 23, 2013) - "Habitat," an exhibit of work by Andrew Buck, Andrew Molleur, Matthew Weber, Martha Lewis, Phillip Johnson, Ray DiCapua, Craig Newick, Peter Waite, Marion Belanger and Linda Lindroth, will be at the Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery at Manchester Community College... |
Hartford Courant - 24th Annual Global Issues Conference: Understanding Social Media And Global Change (October 17, 2013) - In the 21st century, the lens through which we engage each other and the world around us is no longer primarily unmediated. News production and consumption, political campaigning, cartography, disease tracking, advertising and the family cat have all moved into distributed social spaces more frequently located in the cloud than on the ground... |
Hartford Courant - MCC Hosts 16th Annual Foodshare Empty Bowls Project (October 17, 2013) - On Saturday, Oct. 26, the 16th Annual Foodshare Empty Bowls event will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the MCC Culinary Arts Center on the second floor of the Lowe Student Services Center... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Degrees of Disruption (October 23, 2013) - Supporters of open-access journals and massive open online courses have been quick to label their initiatives disruptive, but a recent analysis by a York University professor suggests only one of them has the potential to spark considerable change, while the other is likely to remain an alternative alongside traditional offerings... |
Inside Higher Ed - Net Price Rising (October 23, 2013) - Even though colleges have slowed the rate at which they raise tuition, the total grant aid available to students has not been able to keep pace with tuition growth, according to two reports released Wednesday by the College Board... |
Inside Higher Ed - A Call for Mandatory Math (October 22, 2013) - A University of Sydney report says that prerequisites should be reintroduced for some postsecondary degrees to help reverse the decline in high school math and science... |
Community College Times - Partnerships Grow Strong Over 20 Years of ATE (October 21, 2013) - With a $64-million annual appropriation in recent years, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program is the National Science Foundation's (NSF) largest investment in two-year colleges... |
Inside Higher Ed - Faster Math Path (October 21, 2013) - A faculty-led group called the California Acceleration Project has helped 42 of the state's community colleges offer redesigned, faster versions of remedial math and English tracks. But the group's co-founders said they would be able to make much more progress if the University of California changed its transfer credit requirements... |
Community College Times - Ramping Up Engagement to Boost Student Success (October 17, 2013) - For student engagement strategies to yield student success, they need to be well designed, implemented at scale and integrated into clear, coherent pathways... |
Inside Higher Ed - Walking the Walk on Completion (October 17, 2013) - Most community colleges have begun using a suite of expert-approved strategies to get more students to graduation. But those programs are often just window dressing, as relatively few students participate in them... |
Community College Times - Students Test Their Mettle in Welding (October 17, 2013) - Welders bonded metal to metal in the welding shop at the Lee County Innovation Center. Sparks from their torches reflected in the dark glass faceplates of their helmets... |
Hartford Courant - Food in the Time of the Cheneys (October 22, 103) - Professor Bettylou Sandy will describe 18th- and 19th-century sources of foods, vegetable, fruit and herb gardens, stocking up for the winter and seasonal foods available at that time, with information on the average person in Manchester, as well as the more well-to-do... |
The Hartford Courant - MxCC Hosts Poetry Reading With Steve Straight (October 20, 2013) - On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Middlesex Community College will host a poetry reading with Steve Straight, poet and community college professor. A book sale and signing will immediately follow the reading. Straight is a professor of English at Manchester Community College. He has given readings and workshops on poetry throughout the eastern United States... |
CT Mirror - Glitch in 2011 Malloy/Union Pact Rips Hole In CT Public Colleges' Budgets (October 23, 2013) - The state employees' union is calling on state legislators and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to fix a glitch in the 2011 concessions deal that forces the public colleges and universities to spend millions of dollars more every year to bolster the cash-starved pension system... |
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Inside Higher Ed - California Raisins and Community Colleges (October 22, 2013) - Readers of a certain age will remember when the California Raisins singing "I heard it through the grapevine" were the hottest thing on tv. They were the stars of a series of commercials sponsored by some sort of consortium of grape farmers in California, selling the idea of raisins... |
Inside Higher Ed - A Faustian Bargain? (October 22, 2013) - Several decades ago - long before the level of technological sophistication we experience today -- I was part of a movement begun by the late Julian Stanley, a psychology professor, and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) to save academically talented youth from boredom in the schools... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Beyond Student Aid: Helping Disadvantaged Students Attend College (October 21, 2013) - On his College Affordability Bus Tour this summer, President Obama outlined three steps toward reforming higher education: 1) creating a new ratings system for colleges based on how successful the institution is in graduating students with good career prospects and manageable loan debt; 2) encouraging colleges to redesign the way they deliver instruction in order to become more cost effective; and 3) helping students manage their loan debt by tying loan repayments to income levels... |
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