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Beyond Bars Exhibition (February 10, 2014) - Manchester Community College presents Beyond Bars, a powerful exhibition featuring works from the CPA Prison Arts Program Permanent Collection... |
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Money Program For Young Adults Explores What It Takes To Succeed As An Entrepreneur (February 10, 2014) - On Wednesday, February 19, "Beer, Burgers & Managing Your Bucks" - a series of monthly networking and money-management gatherings for young adults at MCC on Main in Manchester - will celebrate National Entrepreneurship Week (February 15 - 22) with a program devoted to the topic... |
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Manchester Community College Foundation Appoints New Board Member (February 10, 2014) - The Manchester Community College Foundation recently appointed a new member to its board of directors... |
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MCC Credit-Free Programs Offers Course on Developing e-Newsletters (February 10, 2014) - In current marketing strategies, the e-newsletter has become one of the most popular vehicles for reaching customers, employees, community members and other audiences... |
Hartford Courant - Beyond Bars Exhibition (February 11, 2014) - Manchester Community College presents Beyond Bars, a powerful exhibition featuring works from the CPA Prison Arts Program Permanent Collection... |
Hartford Courant - MCC Foundation Appoints New Board Member (February 11, 2014) - The Manchester Community College Foundation recently appointed a new member to its board of directors. Billy Grant, of West Hartford, has a long history in the culinary profession... |
Hartford Business Journal - Manchester CC Named to Top 150 List (February 10, 2014) - The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program has named Manchester Community College as one of the nation's top 150 community colleges eligible to compete for $1 million through the 2015 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence... |
Journal Inquirer - MCC to Take Part in Study of Testing (February 6, 2014)- Manchester Community College has been selected as one of six colleges in the state and nearly 50 nationwide to join a multistate collaborative aimed at improving the effectiveness of student testing. Higher education leaders and faculty from nine states are working together to see how to better measure student achievement, college officials said... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Deeper Pockets (February 12, 2014) - Donors gave about $34 billion to North American colleges in 2013, according to an annual survey by the Council for Aid to Education... |
Inside Higher Ed - Rejecting the Standardized Test (February 12, 2014) - Ever since accreditors started demanding evidence of learning outcomes, many colleges have started using "value added" tests that are given to a sample of freshmen and seniors to measure gains in various skills... |
Inside Higher Ed - Politician-Public Divide (February 10, 2014) - Everywhere you look, politicians are asserting that the public and taxpayers are questioning the value of higher education - and that their disappointment stems primarily from the fact that increasingly pricey college degrees aren't leading to jobs... |
New England Journal of Higher Ed - A Look at the Condition of Education in Massachusetts (February 10, 2014) - Leaders engaged in Massachusetts' public higher education system-including at community colleges, state universities, and UMass-have demonstrated their strong commitment to improvement in recent years... |
Inside Higher Ed - Is 'Undermatching' Overrated? (February 10, 2014) - Few educational theories have taken off as quickly in recent years as that of "undermatching." The idea is that many academically talented, low-income students who could succeed at top colleges are not applying to, enrolling in or graduating from them... |
Inside Higher Ed - Rank and File (February 7, 2014) - Many full-time community college instructors have similar academic pedigrees to their peers at colleges or universities, and have devoted decades to their students and institutions, but don't get the prestige - or the pay bumps - that come with traditional academic ranks... |
CT Mirror - Malloy Budget Chief: We Want To Spend More on Colleges Than Proposed (February 7, 2014) - The governor's budget director said Friday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's $60 million spending proposal aimed at renovating and upgrading the buildings at the state's largest public college system is just a down payment on what's really needed... |
CASE - Educational Fundraisers Predict Continued Growth in Donations in 2014 (February 6, 2014) -Fundraisers at schools, colleges and universities in the United States estimate that donations to their institutions grew 5.1 percent in 2013 and predict additional growth of 5.2 percent in 2014, according to survey results released by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education... |
Faculty Hero: Rebecca M. Townsend (February 11, 2014) - Rebecca M. Townsend, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication at Manchester Community College, talks about her journey to find connections, between the needs of her students, college and community... |
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Inside Higher Ed - Humanities or Self-Help? (February 11, 2014) - Lectures on "putting first things first" and "beginning with the end in mind" could soon replace those on world civilizations and logic for some students enrolled in San Antonio area community colleges... |
Chronicle of Higher Ed - A Conservative Defense of Tenure (February 11, 2014) - A standard feature of conservative and libertarian attacks on higher education is a polemic against tenure. My own view is that tenure is a fundamentally conservative institution-one that deserves to be defended... |
Inside Higher Ed - When Searches Fail (February 11, 2014) - Karen Kelsky has a good column offering advice to a job seeker who has noticed a job reposted from the year before. Should the candidate re-apply? Kelsky says yes, if there has been something significantly changed in the application... |
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