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MCC Students Inducted Into International Business Honor Society (November 12, 2013) - The Alpha Beta Gamma international business honor society at Manchester Community College recently inducted 26 new members. Alpha Beta Gamma inductees must have a GPA of 3.0 for a minimum of 12 credits earned to qualify for membership... |
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Kelser Foundation Announced as Presenting Sponsor of Evening of Fine Wines (November 12, 2013) - The Manchester Community College Foundation is pleased to announce The Kelser Foundation as the presenting sponsor of the twenty-second annual Evening of Fine Wines, to be held on April 24, 2014... |
Hartford Courant - UConn Holds Off On Proposal Limiting Students' Outside Classes (November 11, 2013) - Manchester Community College faculty bristle at questions about academic rigor...A proposal limiting the number of courses University of Connecticut students can take at other institutions, which raised questions about the rigor of classes in the state community college system, has been put on hold... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - 2-Year Colleges Get Strategic About Enrollment (November 11, 2013) - Students packed community colleges during the recession, as enrollment hit a historic high. Many campuses saw annual growth of more than 10 percent, which they strained to accommodate... |
Hartford Courant - Instructor Brings Medical Experience To Body, Mind & Spirit Courses (November 7, 2013) - Manchester Community College 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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Inside Higher Ed - The Obamas' New Focus (November 13, 2013) - Michelle Obama on Tuesday kicked off a new White House push to increase the number of low-income students who apply to and graduate from college... |
Community College Times - In Calif., Low Community College Fees Face Scrutiny (November 11, 2013) -The fees to attend California's community colleges are by far the lowest in the United States-less than half the national average-yet at least 40 percent of the 2.4 million students in the largest U.S. system of higher education do not pay them... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - More Public Universities Cap Enrollment, Even as State Finances Improve (November 8, 2013) - State economies are recovering slowly from the recession, but higher education remains under financial duress in many places, according to a report issued on Friday by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa... |
Inside Higher Ed - 'Freedom to Teach' (November 8, 2013) - Individual professors largely retain the right to choose what they teach and how, even when they're teaching sections of the same course as other professors... |
Community College Times - The Nuts And Bolts Of Corporate Learning Programs (November 7, 2013) - In the changing world of corporate training, companies and colleges do not always speak the same language. Sometimes corporate and college learning leaders need a liaison to help them think of learning in ways to support each other... |
Inside Higher Ed - Public Hearing on College Ratings (November 7, 2013) - A federal college ratings system has the potential to curb access to higher education for disadvantaged minority and low-income students, several college leaders and student advocates told U.S. Education Department officials on Wednesday... |
Huff Post - Investing in a Liberal Education (October 3, 2013) - Settling in to college life this fall, students seem to be following a drumbeat toward practical majors. An all-time high percentage of respondents to UCLA's annual survey of incoming college freshmen said that they are attending college in order to get a better job, make more money, and become well off financially... |
Greenwich Time - Lakeside Pottery - Mosaic - Kate Oggel (November 11, 2013) - Kate ...currently teaches ceramics at... Manchester Community College in Connecticut and at the Community College of Rhode Island, and gives workshops in the region...
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Inside Higher Ed - Further on Gainful Employment (November 12, 2013) - The U.S. Department of Education has upped the ante in its pursuit of "gainful employment" accountability requirements for vocational programs at for-profit institutions and community colleges... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Rethinking Sustainability (November 12, 2013) - When I talk about grants with people who work at universities, it quickly becomes clear that what they mean, and what I mean, are entirely different... |
Inside Higher Ed - Reading Cues in Connecticut (November 11, 2013) - Budgets are practical, but they're also indicative. People read meanings into them. Whether correctly or not, people will read value judgments into them and take behavioral cues accordingly. That seems to be happening in Connecticut with the latest conflict between UConn and the community colleges... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Why Some Community-College Students Don't Seek Academic Help (November 7, 2013) - Community-college students are a unique population of students. Because the community college is a microcosm of our society, it is hard to pinpoint what the best practices are to increase success for these diverse groups of students... |
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