Higher Education

Threatened with a vote of no confidence from faculty, the president of Quinebaug Valley Community College has submitted his resignation letter to the Board of Regents for Higher Education. Ross Tomlin, who has been been the president of the 2,500-student college in Killingly for nearly 3 years, also sent a three sentence letter to faculty […]

Michael P. Meotti will likely be leaving state service without a pension. Meotti, who announced earlier this month that he will be resigning as the vice president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education after helping out with a “brief transition period,” is approximately five months shy of having worked for the state to […]

House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr. is asking the legislature’s Higher Education Committee to hold a public hearing on a trio of missteps by leadership at the state’s college system before any tuition or raises move forward. The Connecticut Mirror on Thursday reported that the Board of Regents for Higher Education approved a $130 million […]

The co-chair of the legislature’s higher education committee last week she was “shocked” by the compensation package awarded to the leader of the state’s Board of Regents college system. This week, she said, “I’m speechless.” Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, commenteed Friday after the regents office responded with answers to her long list of questions about compensation. “I’m […]

Eastern Connecticut State University’s President Elsa Nunez sent her faculty and staff an email Tuesday to set the record straight about the $48,000 pay bump the Board of Regents reports she has been receiving since April. She explains that her appointment as the vice president for state universities at the central office while maintaining her […]

The Board of Regents for Higher Education on Wednesday released the daily schedule of Robert A. Kennedy, who spent nearly nine weeks away from the central office this summer. Last week he told reporters he spent six weeks over the summer working remotely — though his contract specified that time be used for professional development […]

Lewis J. Robinson Jr. emailed the presidents of the state’s community colleges Tuesday evening, telling them that any “expedite[d]” separation agreement offers — or “buyouts” as some have called it — are void. “The Board has not authorized any such arrangement and to the extent such an arrangement was offered at that time or thereafter, […]

The Bangor Daily News has a nice chart of the raises provided at the University of Maine, the state’s flagship university Robert A. Kennedy ran for six years before coming to Connecticut in 2011. The chart looks at the increases given between 2006 and 2012 that total $757,041 in that system’s central office. It also […]

What exactly happened behind closed doors last month between the dozen community college presidents and a top central office staff employee depends on whom you ask. What isn’t debatable are the email communications that followed the meeting. They show that a plan had been drafted by the higher education system’s office for the separation of […]

Recent Internet security breaches at two college campuses prompted public state higher education officials Thursday to impose tougher rules for the use of personal information in computer files. The Board of Regents for Higher Education adopted a policy that tightens security controls, requires additional staff training and makes college and university presidents responsible for maintaining […]

A bill that limits the circumstances that college officials can require students to spend time and money taking non-credit remedial courses has been signed into law by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. One quarter of the students who enter a public college in Connecticut spend their first year taking only non-credit remedial courses. Some even spend two […]