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December 12, 2013
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MCC Foundation Awards 125 Student Scholarships (December 11, 2013) - The Manchester Community College Foundation awarded 125 scholarships to students for the Spring 2014 semester... |
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Tina Carnelli Presented Alumnus of the Year Award at Homecoming and Hall of Fame Reception (December 9, 2013) - As part of the year-long celebration of MCC's 50th birthday, the MCC Foundation hosted a celebratory Homecoming and Hall of Fame reception in the Culinary Arts Center on Tuesday, November 26... |
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Health Insurance on Tap for December 11 "Beer, Burgers & Managing Your Bucks" (December 4, 2013) - Everyone is talking about health insurance these days, and that conversation will point in the direction of young adults at the next "Beer, Burgers and Managing Your Bucks" event at MCC on Main... |
Hartford Courant - Suicide Prevention Training Held (December 8, 2013) - Manchester Community College students received certificates of completion after training in suicide prevention... |
Manchester Community College's "Beer, Burgers, and Managing Your Bucks" series aimed at young adults continues on Wednesday, Dec. 11, with a discussion on health insurance... |
Chronicle - MCC Offers Classes For Tax Season (December 2, 2013) - Manchester Community College's Continuing Education Division is offering classes through its credit-free programs catalog to help people get their paperwork in order for tax season... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Gun Bans in Danger (December 11, 2013) - A divided Florida appeals court ruled Tuesday that public colleges and universities -- except in limited circumstances -- lack the legal right to regulate gun possession on campus... |
Inside Higher Ed - What the Budget Deal Means (December 11, 2013) - The federal budget deal announced by Congressional negotiators Tuesday evening would largely alleviate cuts to research funding and campus-based student aid programs... |
Inside Higher Ed - Prestige vs. Major (December 10, 2013) - If you are a young woman who hopes to earn as much as the men in your education cohort, is it more important to go to Stanford or to study (anywhere) computer science... |
CASE - Presidents Should Champion Alumni (December 10, 2013) - Community college presidents need to lead the campus conversation about the value of their institution's alumni, says the keynote speaker of an upcoming CASE conference... |
Inside Higher Ed - Confirming the MOOC Myth (December 6, 2013) - The story so far: Massive open online courses have yet to live up to their potential. But unlocking that potential could already be a pilot at a community college, state university or private institution... |
Community College Daily - The Road Less Traveled, But Becoming More Crowded (December 6, 2013) - Jim Murdaugh spent about 20 years in law enforcement at the state, county sheriff and local police department levels while also serving in the Air Force Reserve... |
Inside Higher Ed - Tiny Budget, Big Payoff (December 5, 2013) - Alabama's community college transfer office has helped hundreds of thousands of students save money by making sure their credits move with them to a four-year institution. But the office is on life support, with an annual budget that has been slashed to just $375,000... |
Chronicle - Education Notes (November 30, 2013) - Yvonne Giammarino of Coventry was inducted into the Alpha Beta Gamma international business honor society at Manchester Community College... |
CT MIrror - College System Chief to Release Officials' Raises (December 5, 2013) - After denying The Mirror's requests for a list of salaries of the top university officials slated for raises this month, the president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education said Wednesday he'd release the information... |
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Inside Higher Ed - If You Were a President... (December 10, 2013) - Ry Rivard has been on a roll lately. If you haven't seen his latest at IHE, check it out. It's about the increasingly perilous state of many private colleges, particularly in the Northeast. It makes an effective, if depressing, companion piece to the one from last week about public universities in Pennsylvania... |
Inside Higher Ed - The Value-Added Conundrum (December 8, 2013) - If a community college -- or, for that matter, an "adult basic education" provider -- takes someone who reads at a second-grade level up to, say, an eighth-grade level before she walks away, has the community college succeeded or failed... |
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