The merger, which will create the Connecticut State Community College, is designed to address financial concerns and declining enrollment.
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Community college faculty and staff call for stricter COVID safety guidelines
Community college faculty called for stricter COVID safety standards as they return to campuses for the spring semester on Friday.
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CSCU mandates COVID vaccines for all employees
Connecticut State Colleges and Universities have joined the University of Connecticut in requiring all employees to receive COVID vaccines.
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CT students could get automatic admission to state universities under budget bill
Admission to the program will be based on grade point average and a minimum class ranking percentile.
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UConn administrator Terrence Cheng appointed new CSCU president
After a six month search, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents on Friday appointed Terrence Cheng, a UConn administrator, to serve as the system’s new president.
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‘Small gathering’ at CCSU results in weekly COVID rate above 3 percent
The school linked the spike in positive cases to a “small outdoor gathering” of 15 students at an off-campus apartment.
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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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Another day, another flare-up between Ojakian, CSCU faculty
After completing a whirlwind town-hall tour of all 17 campuses in the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, Mark Ojakian, the system’s president, was greeted by unwelcoming faculty in Hartford Thursday when he returned to meet with his governing board.
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CSCU regents adopt tuition hikes, consolidation framework
Updated at 8:13 p.m.
The Board of Regents for Higher Education adopted tuition increases that will eliminate more than half the $35-million budget deficit the state’s largest public college system is facing in the next fiscal year. The board also adopted the framework of a plan to dramatically consolidate the administrative and operational structures of many of the system’s colleges.
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Ojakian pitches sweeping consolidations to keep CSCU ‘viable’
The Board of Regents for Higher Education will be asked Thursday to endorse a framework for saving at least $41 million annually through the administrative and operational consolidations of institutions that have remained autonomous since the merger in 2011 of the state’s 12 community colleges, four regional state universities and the online college, Charter Oak. The system’s president, Mark Ojakian, said the present structure no longer is viable.
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Tuition hikes blunt CSCU budget gap
The president of the state’s largest public college system said tuition increases spread over the next two years are necessary to help close a budget gap of at least $70 million over that time while still giving students the ability to handle and plan for future costs.
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For third straight year, state college system freezes hiring
Connecticut State Colleges & Universities President Mark Ojakian is issuing an immediate hiring freeze for the system’s 17 schools and its central office, a spokeswoman said. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget would cut the state’s block grant to the college system by $25 million.
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Ojakian on tuition hikes –What a difference a day makes
March 22, former Chief of Staff to Gov. Dannel Malloy and current Board of Regents President Mark E. Ojakian stated, “I have consistently said I am not going balance the state’s financial burden on the back of our students.” March 23, he is asking for a painful 5 percent increase in tuition costs for the 88,000 students in two and four year programs at State Universities and Community Colleges.
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CSCU president could have addressed protest instead of breezing by
Last Thursday, this year’s President of the Connecticut’s Board of Regents for Higher Education, Mark Ojakian, hurried past a large group of AAUP protesters outside of his scheduled Board of Regents meeting at the old Phoenix Insurance building on Woodland Street in Hartford. It probably never occurred to this right-hand man of the governor that he was presented with a rare opportunity. In Ojakian’s defense, his boss probably would not have seized the opportunity either.
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CT prof on CSCU’s Ojakian: Scorched earth, not warm feelings
The Mirror’s recent article on CSCU President Mark Ojakian portrayed him as a good listener, a mediator, a reasonable man, and a really nice guy. But the warm feelings engendered by the Mirror’s puff piece should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the contract proposals put forward by his Board of Regents are nothing short of a scorched-earth attack on the faculty of Connecticut’s four state universities and the students they serve.