The General Assembly adopted a $19 billion budget early Sunday that relies on about $200 million in fund sweeps and risky savings and revenues assumptions to stay in balance – including the last-minute discovery of $75 million in “miscellaneous” tax receipts.
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Op-ed: Sen. Williams not qualified or eligible to be college president
Connecticut State Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams Jr. is not qualified to be appointed president of Quinebaug Valley Community College. Nor should the position become a fallback sinecure for a politician looking to retire and reinvent himself.
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Op-ed: Sen. Williams not qualified or eligible to be college president
Connecticut State Senate President Pro Tem Donald Williams Jr. is not qualified to be appointed president of Quinebaug Valley Community College. Nor should the position become a fallback sinecure for a politician looking to retire and reinvent himself.
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2 percent tuition increase hinges on big growth in enrollment
The governing board for the state’s largest public college system on Thursday voted to increase tuition by 2 percent next school year — warning that the modest increase relies on several things.
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CT community colleges’ emergency budget reserves hit all-time low
“This is not a sustainable outlook,” said Matt Fleury, chairman of the Regents’ Finance Committee, of the remaining $9.7 million balance. College officials said they were forced to turn to the reserves in recent weeks to close this year’s budget deficit.
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Malloy’s CT state college plan: Transformative, or a bailout?
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s “Transform CSCU 2020” initiative appears to be part program, part bailout, or a “tuition supplement,” as college officials are calling it.
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President of CT’s state colleges seeks small tuition increase
Gregory W. Gray, president of the state’s largest public college system, is asking his governing board to adopt a 2 percent tuition and fee increase for students next school year.
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How Malloy wants to pay for his higher education plans
While the governor spent a good part of his speech Thursday discussing his higher education initiatives, details of his $60 million plan don’t appear in the college and universities’ spending plans. This is because Malloy is using a budget loophole to get around the state’s constitutional spending limits.
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Gray, others, urged by Obama to find ways to boost college enrollments
With his education agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama on Thursday urged Gregory W. Gray, Connecticut’s President of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, and dozens of other university presidents to share each other’s methods of expanding access to higher education. “More than ever a college degree is the surest path to a stable middle class life,” Obama said at a White House conference on opening the door to college for more students, especially low-income youths.
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UConn officials get raises, many topping $10,000
Hundreds of top officials and administrators at the University of Connecticut received raises this fall after their evaluations, many of the increases topping $10,000.
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Report: $836M needed to catch up on state college renovations
The four Connecticut State Universities and the state’s 12 community colleges need an infusion of $836 million to complete necessary renovations and eliminate a growing backlog of construction projects.
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The 23 goals of the new president at Connecticut’s largest college system
Gregory Gray, the new president of the state’s largest college system, has 23 goals. The president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education — which oversees the state’s dozen community colleges, four universities and online college — on Tuesday informed regents that he has compiled a list of the items he intends to accomplish this year.
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Meotti opens consulting business
Michael Meotti, the former vice president of the state’s largest public college system, who resigned last October amid a pay-raise scandal, has opened his own consulting business. “We can help you identify and carry out a strategy to better connect with the governmental, business, philanthropic and community leaders that matter to your organization,” reads the […]
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What brought down Kennedy and Meotti?
Gov. Malloy announcing Robert Kennedy as the college system’s president Reorganizing the state universities and community colleges may have been Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s idea, but handpicking who would lead the merged, 100,000-student system wasn’t his call — at least not according to the legislators who crafted the merger bill. That didn’t stop the governor, […]