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With budget deficits looming, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents approved a 3% increase in state university tuition and fees Thursday. Connecticut community college students fear a price hike will strike their institutions next.

Thousands of college students are facing potentially paying higher costs to go to school in Connecticut. On Thursday, education leaders are set to vote on...

Connecticut’s 12 community colleges are set to become one statewide system by next summer. The new person in charge of leading that change is the new systems’ first-ever president, Dr. John Maduko. He and faculty union leader Seth Freeman each spoke with John Henry Smith on All Things Considered, and both seemed to agree that challenges lie ahead.

MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 31, 2022 -- BlueLinx Holdings Inc. , a leading U.S. wholesale distributor of building products, announced today that Keith A. Haas and Marietta Edmunds Zakas were... | August 31, 2022

Jessi D. Hills production of Ushuaia Blue offers us a performance piece that is part tone poem, part personal tragedy, part environmental meditation. Shifting with ease from one time and place, and from one frame of mind, to another, the cast offers us a glimpse of how our understanding of global climate change needs to expand-beyond the microscopes and bathyscaphes, beyond the labs, beyond those cute penguins, and out onto the ever-more-endangered ice of Antarctica.

Community college professors have come together to put up an anti-consolidation billboard, the first of its kind.

Critics of community college consolidation came out in droves on Tuesday during a public hearing for a bill that would require legislative approval to

Enrollment in the state’s community colleges, already dwindling over the years, has been further impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and a recent uptick in job openings, leading to fewer people deciding to attend two-year colleges. Local colleges — Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield and Manchester Community College — were among the schools with the sharpest decline in students since the pandemic started, as well as over the past decade. Asnuntuck has seen a 27.4% drop in full-time equiva...

BlueLinx Holdings Inc., has announced the appointment of Seth Freeman as vice president of marketing and communications.

Linda Stango, director of workforce transitions at Naugatuck Valley Community College, said she’s had to ask multiple times if she could telework so that she can take care of her mother, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness, but has yet to get a response.