Dr. John Maduko will start in his new position as president of the Connecticut State Community College on June 3.
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15% of community college students have non-medical vaccine exemptions
Nearly 15% of the students enrolled at Connecticut community colleges have received non-medical exemptions from the system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a rate that administrators suggested could be brought down with efforts to educate students about the vaccine. Of the 37,116 students enrolled at the state’s community colleges this semester, 71% are fully or partially vaccinated; 5,479 […]
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If COVID-19 makes campus life less attractive, CT universities will pay a stiff price
If the coronavirus changes students’ attitudes toward residential life, the state’s public university’s and colleges face severe financial risk.
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Books behind bars: Pilot Pell Grant program helps inmates look toward the future
“We want them to be able to get out, get a job, get themselves back on their feet and really succeed in their life,” an instructor said of his incarcerated students.
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Cost-free college is in the budget, but is it in the cards?
A plan to help thousands of first-time students – regardless of income – attend college cost-free is in the proposed state budget, but its success depends on a complex funding scheme involving the legalization of online lottery games.
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Electric Boat plans major hiring, expansion to tackle sub ramp up
WASHINGTON — The man in charge of developing and acquiring the Navy’s weapons systems said it’s going to be “a tough ramp up” to get Electric Boat’s shipyards and another at Newport News, Va., ready to meet the nation’s need for submarines. The decline in the U.S. manufacturing base and the retirement of skilled tradesmen pose key challenges.
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CT would have trouble financing Obama’s community college plan
WASHINGTON – Gov. Dannel Malloy said he’d participate in President Obama’s plan to provide free tuition to community college students, but he’d find it tough to fund the program, given Connecticut’s tight budget and spending cap.
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Michelle Obama invites University of Hartford student to State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Not long ago he Anthony Mendez lived with his family in an homeless shelter, now he will sit with First Lady Michelle Obama her husband’s State of the Union speech to the nation Tuesday night, Mendez, a University of Hartford freshman, was invited by the First Lady because he overcame serious challenges to become the first high school graduate in his family.
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Student outreach plan key to keeping CT college system in the black
A new outreach program designed to attract new students to Connecticut’s merged public college system also could determine whether system’s new $1.1 billion budget remains in balance over the next year.