Bill requiring Connecticut colleges to survey students on sexual misconduct earns strong support; students who report incidents wouldn’t be punished for violating drug and alcohol policies Amanda Blanco, Hartford Courant
Despite pushback from some Connecticut schools, the state House of Representatives voted to advance a bill that will require colleges and universities to survey students every two years about sexual misconduct on campus and a Republican leader of the legislature’s higher education committee said he expects to see strong bipartisan support for it again in the state Senate.
If signed into law, schools will also have to report assessment results to the higher education committee, starting by March 2023.
In this week's Common edge piece, Duo Dickinson explores his personal journey from teaching to practice to teaching again, and the differences he perceived.
Gazda named director of region’s educational resource center
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Published: 5/31/2021 7:45:23 PM
NORTHAMPTON Todd H. Gazda, the new executive director for the Collaborative for Educational Services, got a somewhat late start in education, as he first worked as a contract attorney after earning a law degree in the mid 1990s.
But the Middlefield native later became a social studies and English teacher at Gateway Regional Middle School in Huntington and then the school’s principal; he also had a stint as the principal of Chester Elementary School.
Gazda, who today lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, moved on in 2012 to become the superintendent of Ludlow Public Schools. But’s he now returning to work in the Valley as executive director for the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES) in Northampton. He starts in the position July 1.
All four of his pitches – fastball, curveball, slider and change-up – were working during his bullpen session before Monday’s playoff game against Goffstown, and Concord senior Jonah Wachter was feeling good. But he wasn’t feeling perfect.“I mean, you.
Over 525 participants from 52 countries on six continents attended "Language and Migration: Experience and Memory," an interdisciplinary symposium held virtually April 19-May 1 that convened humanists, social scientists, field-workers, policy-makers, artists and writers to think together about migrants as resourceful users, interpreters and creators of language.