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Upcoming Events at Manchester Community College (February 1, 2014) - The following events will be held at Manchester Community College during the month of February. All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted... |
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MCC on Main February Events (February 1, 2014) - MCC on Main, Manchester Community College's Arts and Education Center, has scheduled the following events for the month of February... |
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MCC Celebrates African American History Month (January 29, 2014) - Manchester Community College will celebrate African American History Month with several events during the month of February. All events are free and open to the public... |
Hartford Courant - EMT Course At MCC Prepares Students For Certification (January 30, 2014) - Manchester Community College's Continuing Education Division offers an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training course that fully prepares students to take the certification exam... |
Reminder News - Second Step Players Gently Battle Stigma of Mental Illness (January 29, 2014) - "I've been given 19 diagnoses - hopefully, one of them is right," said Dylan Croft, a member of the Second Step Players whose traveling troupe gave an often funny and thoroughly entertaining performance at Manchester Community College... |
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Chronicle of Higher Ed - Analysts Map Some of the Challenges a College-Ratings System Would Face (February 6, 2014) - In anticipation of the debate over a proposed new federal ratings system for colleges, two analysts with the American Enterprise Institute have crunched the data to highlight what can be measured today about colleges' success in achieving the ratings' goals of improving affordability, quality, and access to students from the lowest socioeconomic classes, all at the same time... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - Courage of Convictions (February 4, 2014) - Barring access to higher education for people with criminal histories ... It is becoming a source of growing outrage and disgrace that the U.S. comprises about 5% of the world's population, but is responsible for incarcerating 25% of the world's prison population. Massachusetts-along with many other states-spends more of its annual budget on corrections and warehousing criminals than on public higher education... |
Inside Higher Ed - No Transfer Needed (February 4, 2014) - Dozens of universities recently touted transfer agreements with community colleges as part of President Obama's summit on higher education. Drexel University didn't participate in the event. But it can hang with any private university when it comes to working closely with community colleges... |
Community College Daily - White House Announces Grants to Help The Long-Term Unemployed (February 3, 2014) - To help the long-term unemployed attain the skills they need to find good-paying jobs, the Obama administration will award grants to scale up innovative partnerships among employers and non-profits, including community colleges... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Adjuncts Gain Traction With Congressional Attention (February 3, 2014) - Maria C. Maisto went to Capitol Hill last fall to correct what she saw as a misperception about colleges' response to the nation's new health-care law. By the time she left, she had accomplished something bigger. She had gotten lawmakers talking about higher education's reliance on adjuncts and how their working conditions make it difficult for them to do their best work... |
Inside Higher Ed - Will Work in Beer (January 30, 2014) - People began setting up tents on campus here the night before registration opened for a new academic program at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Campus security officers made the wannabe students leave. But many in the crowd just got in their cars and started circling the surrounding parking lots... |
Voices Weekender - Poet, Violinist to Appear Together in Gallery Event (February 5, 2014) - An interactive performance with poet Joan Kantor and violinist Linda Beers will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, January 26 at the Artists' Path, 583 Bantam Rd... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - Obama Ramps Up Federal Focus on Job Training (January 31, 2014) - President Obama put the focus squarely on job training this week in a State of the Union address that touched only briefly on other higher-education issues... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Restoration (February 6, 2014) - In my sophomore year of college, I took a history course on Tudor and Stuart England with Prof. Dudley Bahlman, who was as close to a human incarnation of Mr. Magoo as I have ever seen... |
Inside Higher Ed - Free in Tennessee? (February 5, 2014) - Governor Haslam, of Tennessee, has proposed using state lottery revenues to create an endowment to fund the tuition and fees for new high school graduates at community colleges within the state... |
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