Given the right inspiration and leadership, today’s college students will understand the enormous chasm between Connecticut’s wealthiest and poorest residents, and do something to narrow it.
Gregory Gray
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Op-Ed: We can overcome the income inequality at our doorstep
Given the right inspiration and leadership, today’s college students will understand the enormous chasm between Connecticut’s wealthiest and poorest residents, and do something to narrow it.
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Provost’s final emails show no friction with CSCU president
If there was friction between the Gregorgy Gray and Michael Gargano during Gargano’s last two weeks on the job, it didn’t play out in emails between the top two officials of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities.
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CSCU leader says balking faculty will eventually praise transformation plan
Gregory Gray was taken aback when faculty members of the Connecticut State College and University system rejected his “road map” for transforming the sprawling network of campuses. In a recent interview, however, he said they will come to like and accept the plan as they learn more about it and participate more in shaping the final version.
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Faculty and university president call a truce
Faculty and union leaders said Friday they have reached a temporary truce with the president of the state’s largest public college system. Angst among professors at the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system had grown in recent weeks after President Gregory W. Gray released “roadmaps” for changes he was considering making at the schools.
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Faculty decry provost’s departure, president’s plan for CSCU’s future
Faculty leaders representing the state’s four regional state universities and 12 community colleges Friday decried the sudden departure of Provost Michael Gargano and formally condemned Board of Regents President Gregory Gray’s plans for the future of the colleges.
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ECSU president calls for more dialogue with restive faculty
Responding to concerns among faculty about plans for the future of Connecticut’s regional universities, the president of Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic said she knows they have the school’s best interest in mind, and she called for more dialogue between faculty and administrators.
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ECSU faculty union gives president’s plans an F
The faculty union representing hundreds of professors at Eastern Connecticut State University voted Wednesday afternoon to give plans for their school’s future a failing grade. “The one thing everyone in the room agreed on is we do not like this plan,” Luis Cordón, the president of the union, said during an interview after the meeting. The […]
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Faculty push back on president’s plans for Connecticut State Universities
Discontent among some faculty with leadership of the state’s largest public college system may be close to a boiling point. Meetings are scheduled on two campuses this week to discuss concerns with initiatives for the future that have been put forward for the state’s four regional universities by Board of Regents President Gregory W. Gray.
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Connecticut college system’s buy-one, get-one-free course plan scaled back
Connecticut lawmakers have scaled back the key component of the plan aimed at shoring up the financial deficits the state’s largest public college system faces in the coming years. There will be less than half the original funding of the buy-one, get-one-free course incentive program.
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Blumenthal wants ‘bill of rights’ for college victims of sexual violence
After hearing from Connecticut college students about their experiences of sexual violence, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he wants an overhaul of federal law and enforcement procedures to ensure that college staff no longer turn away students seeking help.
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Op-ed: What’s at stake? Only the quality of education at CSU
President Gray’s plans will destroy the quality of education at CSU.
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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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Malloy supports financial aid for undocumented students
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told reporters Wednesday that he supports opening state-funded financial aid to undocumented students and will follow the legislature’s lead on the issue.
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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.