When it comes to mental health services on CT college campuses, “There’s a very large discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots.”
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As food insecurity bill slips in under radar, advocates hope for further action
A new program will assess the level of food insecurity among Connecticut college students.
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Regents’ panel endorses $12.5M cut for community colleges
The state’s community colleges must cut budgets by a collective $12.5 million next year under a $1.29 billion budget endorsed Thursday.
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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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Faculty vote ‘no confidence’ in CSCU leaders and their college consolidation plan
Faculty who cast votes of no confidence in CSCU President Mark Ojakian and his plan to to consolidate the 12 community colleges say no one is listening to them.
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Community college students likely to face 2 percent increase next year
Connecticut students would pay $92 more next year in annual tuition and and fees at the state’s 12 community colleges under a proposal to be considered Wednesday.
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Lawmakers pepper Ojakian with questions about college consolidation plan
Ojakian expects that when the 12 community colleges are consolidated into one state college — in 2023, if all goes as planned — the annual savings will be $23 million.
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Bills that would stop community college merger clear committee
Lawmakers on the Higher Education Committee unanimously supported bills that would stop plans to merge the state’s 12 community colleges.
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Faculty, students protest consolidation plan for colleges
The group delivered a petition to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office and called on him to help.
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Regents approve plan to consolidate community colleges in 2023
The governing board of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges voted Thursday to move forward with implementing a new plan to merge the schools into a single accredited institution — but this time in five years.
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Opposition softens toward revised community college merger
As the governing board of the state’s 12 community colleges meets on Thursday to vote on a revised version of a plan intended to merge the schools into a single accredited institution, some faculty and former officials remain opposed — while slightly softening their disapproval.
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Proposed CSCU budget would tap reserves to avert another tuition hike
A key panel within Connecticut’s consolidated higher education system endorsed the framework for a new budget Wednesday that maintains the tuition schedule but would reduce dangerously low emergency reserves.
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Regents determined to persist with ‘Students First’ consolidation
The governing board of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges is not giving up on implementing a controversial plan to merge the schools into a single accredited institution, even though a regional accrediting body rejected its current pitch. But Mark Ojakian, the system’s president, backpedaled on previous comments that he was considering closing one or more campuses and further raising tuition.
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A demand for lots more detail on community college consolidation
Officials of the state’s 12 community colleges must answer a long list of questions from the schools’ accrediting body before their plan to shed hundreds of administrative positions can move forward.
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Merging CT’s community colleges is controversial. Here’s why.
In pursuit of cost savings, a merger of all the state’s community colleges is being proposed. But some are skeptical those savings can be achieved without impacting students’ education. The Mirror explores the controversy and the experiences of other states that have tried college mergers.