The White House today released scorecards for public and private colleges. The criteria: “Where you can get the most bang for your educational buck,” President Obama said when announcing the report cards Tuesday during his State of the Union Address. The goal of the scorecards, Obama said, is to pressure college officials to keep the […]

The Board of Regents for Higher Education is seeking applications and nominations for someone to become the 100,000-student system’s next leader. The notice — which went out Friday — states those interested must apply by Feb. 15. The board will shortly thereafter conduct interviews and recommend a candidate to the governor. The anticipated start date […]

The Board of Regents on Thursday approved a $24,000 raise for one of the system’s top officials and heard that the 17 other raises for central office staff mistakenly approved by the previous system president will remain stalled. Chairman Lewis Robinson Jr. told the regents at their monthly meeting that the system will rely on […]

The board governing the state’s largest public college system will likely vote in March for tuition increases. Regents on the executive and finance committees were told last week that tuition would need to increase by 12.4 percent — or $1,375 for students living on campus — just to close the current deficit and continue providing […]

College officials have been told for years that students too often are losing credits when they transfer from a community college to a four-year state college. That may soon change. The Board of Regents for Higher Education — which oversees the state’s dozen community colleges and four state universities — in September approved a sample […]

The University of Connecticut spends more on administration than the 71 other public research universities nationwide, a review of U.S. Department of Education data by the Wall Street Journal has found. Of the $49,739 UConn spent on each student during the 2010-11 school year, $8,493 went to pay for non-classroom administrative costs. These costs make […]

The president of the University of Connecticut has made it clear that $16 million in midyear state cuts to her budget will not impact her promise to use the revenue from tuition hikes to hire new tenure-track faculty. In fact, trustees at the University of Connecticut got to hear all about how those plans are […]

Several presidents at Connecticut’s private colleges were paid much more than their couterparts at similiar universities, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports in its annual compensation analysis. Yale University’s Richard Levin, who retired this year, made $1.6 million in total pay and other benefits last year. The median pay at universities the Chronicle determined were […]

Officials at the Board of Regents for Higher Education are asking Robert A. Kennedy to reimburse the system for $2,264 he received for business expenses while he was the president. Officials say the $25,000 provided to him each year should not have covered the cost of items such as $111 for satellite radio, a $250 […]

Faced with tight budgets, all the states in New England have slashed funding to higher education. Students in New Hampshire, though, may be feeling it a bit more. The state has completely eliminated state support for financial aid for its students, reports the New England Board of Higher Education. Connecticut last school year provided $64 […]

Today was Michael Meotti’s last day at the Board of Regents for Higher Education — seven weeks after he announced his intention to resign. Meotti’s resignation was the result of a pay-raise scandal and other events that in mid-October led legislators to question their confidence in the leadership of the 100,000-student system. Board of Regents […]

The University of Connecticut will pay its new top spokesman $227,500 a year — $80,000 more than the median pay for this position among the 1,240 colleges surveyed nationwide and almost $17,500 more than the median pay at other doctoral-granting institutions. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources — the national clearinghouse for […]

Philip E. Austin will finish out the semester teaching at the University of Connecticut while also running the Board of Regents for Higher Education. The course: Educational Leadership and the Administration of Student Affairs in Higher Education. Austin takes over as the interim president of the 100,000-student college system — which does not include UConn […]

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 […]