Dozens of people are vying to become the president of one of the three community colleges in Connecticut with an opening. The leader of the 92,000-student Connecticut State College and University system announced Thursday that 35 people have applied to be the president of Asnuntuck Community College, 37 people for Three Rivers and 23 for […]
Higher Education
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Blumenthal: Let students write off college debt through bankruptcy
With the average student graduating from colleges in Connecticut with $27,000 in debt, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal wants to allow students to have their debt dismissed when filing for bankruptcy.
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Malloy’s Regents plan raises state support above pre-cut levels
“I am not talking about what happened in the past. I am talking about what needs to happen in the future,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Wednesday.
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CT college officials question proposed sexual assault law
A proposed law that would overhaul how colleges and universities must respond to sexual assault has universal support among women legislators, but several college leaders are pushing back.
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Connecticut state college system spokeswoman headed back to Capitol
Juliet Manalan, who was tapped by the state’s largest public college system as its spokeswoman last fall, is heading back to the state Capitol.
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Malloy budget chief: We want to spend more on colleges than proposed
The governor’s budget director said Friday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s $60 million spending proposal aimed at renovating and upgrading the buildings at the state’s largest public college system is just a down payment on what’s really needed.
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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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UConn: We responded correctly to sexual assault reports
The University of Connecticut told a federal judge Monday that it did not fail in its legal responsibilities when students informed school officials that they had been raped or sexually assaulted. But the school offered no details.
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How safe is your college? CT congresswomen call for transparency
Connecticut’s two congresswomen have joined 37 of their colleagues to call on the U.S. Department of Education to make college safety data readily available for students and parents.
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State report: UConn is less affordable
The University of Connecticut has become increasingly less affordable for low- and middle-income state resident, according to a new legislative study.
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After UConn sexual assault complaint, CT women lawmakers call for change
The ripples continue from complaints against the state’s flagship university for how it handled reports from students of sexual assault. The 54 women in the General Assembly Thursday released a list of changes to state law they are seeking in the legislative session that begins next week.
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Following complaints, UConn adds two new positions to investigate sexual assaults
The University of Connecticut Wednesday released job announcements for two newly created jobs to investigate allegations of sexual assault and harassment. These positions follow the filing of a complaint and lawsuit against the university by a group of students who say UConn mishandled their accusations of sexual assault last fall. “The newly formed position of Lead Title IX […]
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CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with Trinity students’ Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities, Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journalists Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Alvin Chang, which they recently published in their January 15, 2014 story, “By the numbers: Integrating schools in CT.”
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CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with Trinity students’ Sheff data visualizations
Students in the Cities, Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journalists Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Alvin Chang, which they recently published in their January 15, 2014 story, “By the numbers: Integrating schools in CT.”
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Connecticut school segregation, education funding and Tom Foley
Is breaking the link between race, poverty, housing and school segregation an intractable problem in Connecticut? Judging from our recent stories by education reporter Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, it would seem so.
