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Instructor Brings Medical Experience to Body, Mind & Spirit Courses (November 5, 2013) - Credit-Free Programs Instructor Kay Lani LeBoulluec, Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Vermont, is a published medicinal research chemist, and a yoga therapist and holistic healer with the Saint Francis Hospital's Integrative Medicine department... |
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Educators from The People's Republic of China Visit Manchester Community College (October 30, 2013)...Twenty-three educators from the People's Republic of China, representing ten of China's top-ranked universities, visited Manchester Community College...
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CTNow.com - Beer, Burgers And Money Management In Manchester (October 31, 2013) - The combination of beer and personal finance has not always borne positive results, but Manchester Community College is teaming with regional breweries to draw young people to a presentation about the basics of money management... |
Hartford Courant - MCC Foundation Board Members Appointed (November 3, 2013) - The Manchester Community College Foundation appointed the following two new members to its board of directors... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Mixed Signals (November 6, 2013) - Purdue University has for years touted the ability of its early-warning system Signals to improve student retention, but a series of blog entries analyzing the institution's claims has not found a causal connection between students who use the system and their tendency to stick with their studies... |
Inside Higher Ed - Performance Funding in Job Training (November 6, 2013) - Opportunity Nation, a nonprofit group that produces a national index on economic opportunity, has joined two U.S. senators in a push to encourage closer ties between employers and colleges, particularly two-year institutions... |
Community College Times - AACC, Universities to Discuss Leadership Training (November 5, 2013) - The board of directors of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) this summer approved a revision of the AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders... |
Inside Higher Ed - Building Students' 'Cultural Capital' (November 5, 2013) - Students who are the first in their families to attend college face a set of disadvantages in terms of college enrollment, persistence and graduation -- a vexing problem, to be sure, since virtually nothing can be done retroactively to change their demographic realities... |
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New England Journal of Higher Ed - Lesley Models New Undergrad Tuition Strategy to Fight Sticker Shock (November 4, 2013) - Since the bottom dropped out of our economy in the fall of 2008, family income has declined and, five years later, shows few signs of recovering... |
Inside Higher Ed - You've Got Mail (November 4, 2013) - The Obama administration plans to send email directly to about 3.5 million borrowers of federal student loans over the next month in an effort to boost enrollment in the government's income-based repayment programs... |
Community College Times - Innovations to Improve Student Success (November 1, 2013) - Starting students early in structured program pathways and tackling barriers that often derail their college ambitions are part of a statewide strategy to improve student success among North Carolina community colleges... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - A Partner from Healthcare Speaks to Higher Ed (October 29, 2013) - The more NEBHE and others focus on the "cost disease" in higher education and new business models to treat it, the more similarities with another sector arise... |
Hartford Courant - 'Botanical Tyranny' At Mark Twain House (November 5, 2013) - ...So "Botanical Tyranny" ("The Evil of Flowers") was born. The project by Rainwater, an art teacher at Manchester Community College and Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, creates 19th-century-style botanical prints... |
Glastonbury Citizen - Candidates for Town Council (November 5, 2013) - Kurt Cavanaugh (R-lncumbent) Question #1: Education: BS, Management, Central Connecticut State University; Associate Degree, Manchester Community College; Graduate-Hartford Fire Department Fire Training Academy; Connecticut Police Academy... |
Hartford Courant - Critics' Choice (November 3, 2013) - "Life Kills Me," a Chilean comic drama about a schlocky filmmaker and a morbid vagrant. Spanish with subtitles. At the library. Manchester Community College professor Robert Kagan will speak... |
Reminder News - Glastonbury Town Council Candidates (October 28, 2013) - Karen Boisvert is a lieutenant in the Hartford Police Department... She has an M.S. in human services, leadership, management and policy from Springfield College, a B.S. in political science with a public administration concentration from Central Connecticut State University and an associate's degree in criminal justice from Manchester Community College... |
Hartford Courant - UConn Foundation Buys West End House For Herbst To Woo Donors (November 4, 2013) - The University of Connecticut Foundation has spent $660,000 to purchase a home on one of Hartford's most desirable boulevards for UConn President Susan Herbst to use for entertaining big-money donors, and to use as her residence when she has business in or around the capital city... |
Hartford Courant - Union Steps Up Opposition To Charter Expansion (November 5, 2013) - The American Federation of Teachers is jumping into a controversy over turning Hartford's Elementary Clark School to Achievement First, a private nonprofit which operates charter schools around the state... |
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Chronicle of Higher Ed - Academe, Claim Your Political Power (November 4, 2013) - More than 40 years ago, Lewis B. Mayhew, of Stanford University, an early leader in higher-education research and criticism, took note of "romantic rhetoric and apocalyptical agonizing over the fragility of the university and its mortal danger... |
Inside Higher Ed - Observing Classes Outside Your Field (November 3, 2013) - Any dean will face this at some point. You have to do a classroom observation as part of a professor's evaluation protocol, but the professor teaches a subject in which you have no background. What do you do? |
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