Still recovering from a letter critical of the president of the University of Connecticut that went viral, officials at the state’s flagship university have decided to form a task force to “explore all matters related to civil behavior and speech at the university.” In a letter sent to students Wednesday, UConn President Susan Herbst wrote that the […]

The Associated Press is reporting that Jack Warner has been offered the job of president of Connecticut’s largest public college system, but has turned it down. Warner, currently the chief executive of South Dakota’s college system, told the AP that “he wants to stay in the state for numerous reasons, including strong university presidents and […]

Two top officials at the state’s largest public college system have resigned. Bill Bowes, the budget chief for the 100,000-student Board of Regents system, plans to leave May 16 for a new position at the University of Arkansas’ medical school. Wendy Chang, the leader of the system’s information technology, will be leaving at the end […]

State Representatives on Wednesday voted to remove the governor’s authority to appoint the president of the state’s largest public college system. The bill, instead, will place the responsibility of selecting a president and setting all the employment terms for the leader solely with the 15-member Board of Regents. The bill is one of several proposed […]

A third president of a community college in Connecticut has announced she will be leaving the Board of Regents system. Martha McLeod, who has been president of Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield for 10 years, wrote students and faculty Sunday to inform them she will be retiring at the end of the fiscal year June […]

Are you curious to learn if merging the state’s community colleges, the four Connecticut State Universities and online state college into one system resulted in the promised $4.5 million in savings? So are state legislators. Last week, members of the legislature’s Appropriations and Higher Education committees received a breakdown of where the highly-touted savings was […]

Philip Austin, the interim president of the state’s largest public college system, has a lesson for those who are upset with the governor’s plan to pump billions into the state’s flagship university while cutting the funding to the other public colleges. “If someone gets a huge windfall, then others are going to get more two […]

The Board of Regents’ Finance Committee has approved a plan to increase tuition and fees at the state’s public universities by 5.1 percent and community colleges by 5.3 percent. The increase, if approved by the full governing board during a meeting next Thursday, means students will be required to pay up to $465 more in […]

The Board of Regents is nearing the finish line to select a leader to run the state’s 93,000-student college system. The system’s governing board has whittled a list of eight candidates down to three finalists, Interim President Philip Austin told the Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee Tuesday. “Quite honestly they are supurb They are far above what […]

With the price tag to attend the state’s public universities likely to increase next year, Connecticut is about to cross a historic threshold in which students pay more than the state to cover the public institutions’ costs. Tuition revenue last school year covered 47.5 percent of the costs at Connecticut’s public colleges and universities, a […]

A proposal to lower by 2.6 percent the cost for out-of-state students to attend Connecticut universities has been rescinded. Instead, the Board of Regents’ Finance Committee next Thursday will vote on a proposal to raise tuition and fees for both out-of-state and in-state students by about 5 percent. The proposal to decrease the price tag […]

The chairwoman of the legislature’s higher education committee said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan for higher education is likely to face a roadblock in the legislature. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget sheds the state’s responsibility to cover the actual costs of providing the medical, retirement and other fringe benefits for thousands of college and […]

Sick of the routine tuition hikes at the state’s colleges, a former student is organizing students to walk out of class and head to the state Capitol the day the Board of Regents for Higher Education approves increasing tuition. “It has become abundantly clear that students are being used as an ATM,” said Danny Ravizza, […]