Local Eastern students named to fall 2020 Dean s List Written by Eastern Connecticut State University
Eastern Connecticut State University recently released its Dean s List for the fall 2020 semester, in which more than 1,300 students were recognized for maintaining high GPAs.
Among the students are:
Sydney Collentine of New Fairfield, a full-time student who majors in Elementary Education and Communication.
Holly Sbarra of New Fairfield, a full-time student who majors in Psychology.
Natalie Velez of New Fairfield, a full-time student who majors in Biology.
To qualify for Dean s List, full-time students must complete a minimum of 12 credits in letter-graded courses with an average GPA of 3.5 or higher in the semester. Part-time students are eligible if they ve accumulated 15 or more credits of letter-graded course work with an average GPA of 3.5 or higher.
The plan to consolidate the 12 community colleges in Connecticut into one college with 12 campuses is called “Students First,” which is ironic because it does not fund students first. It funds a new administration in a new, statewide bureaucracy.
The Board of Regents (BOR) and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system office presented the “Students First” plan in April 2017 with an aim to reduce administration and save $46 million annually.
Three and a half years later, the plan has added dozens of new administrators, cost tens of millions of dollars, and there is more spending to come.
The BOR may still contend they are saving money, but to make that claim they have to keep moving the goal posts. Table 1 compares the BOR’s forecasts of expenditures with the consolidation plan versus “doing nothing” for fiscal year (FY) 2021.
Kelp Takes Center Stage at Virtual Seafood Summit
How can university dining halls help support a sustainable local seafood industry, and what does seaweed have to do with it? Well, here s a hint: The New York Times recently featured kelp as the climate-friendly vegetable you ought to eat.
UMass Dartmouth Dining Services on Feb. 4 will host a virtual summit that looks at the nexus between local institutions and underutilized seafood species including the ubiquitous seaweed known as kelp.
Speakers will talk about leveraging institutions to support local seafood producers through building supply chains for farmed kelp and underutilized species, according to a media release. They will share how a team of colleges and supply chain partners tackled procurement issues with help from a 2018 New England Food Vision Prize from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation. They will also discuss how they worked to bring underutilized species into community and university dining programs.
The best inaugural addresses in American history really are just that they are historical they look at the past, they take stock and what the nation has gone through and they bring some sense of context to the recent events. They are clear-eyed and that they don’t paint too pretty of a picture but they are also forward-looking. They absolutely need to project a better America ahead, said Balcerski.
Dr. Matthew Schmidt, an associate professor at the University of New Haven said it won’t just be Americans watching tomorrow, but that the global community needs to hear this from the President elect speech.