Amidst a year of protests across the country, UConn Associate Professor of Political Science Jeremy Pressman, is co-founder of the Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), which collects publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, including marches, protests, strikes, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.
Read MoreCapital Community College in Hartford, one of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges, has earned a $3 million, five-year federal grant to improve student achievement and increase retention and graduation rates of low-income students.
Read MoreA new analysis of the 515 fastest growing cities in the U.S. shows just one Connecticut city has earn a place in the top 300, one in the top 400, and six others included in the bottom 100 – but making the list.
Read More“We can no longer ignore inequities faced by people of color and low-income individuals,” stressed a 2020 report by the New England Board of Higher Education and the Strada Education Network, looking at the region’s employment, education and prospects for economic growth.
Read MoreAmidst a summer of increased nationwide focus on racial equity and opportunity across many fields of endeavor, Connecticut-headquartered Cigna Corporation, a global health service company, donated $250,000 to expand an innovative program at Howard University in Washington, D.C. tackling systemic inequality in education by creating a pipeline of superintendents of color, specifically trained to lead in urban school districts.
Read MoreOf Connecticut’s approximately 50,000 professional public educators (teachers, administrators, school social workers, counselors, and other certified school employees) in the 2019-2020 school year, 9.6% were racial and ethnic minorities, according to the State Department of Education’s (SDE) data website.
Read MoreIt’s been a very good week for the central Connecticut town of Cheshire, named as a Best Place to Live in the U.S. and home to a National Blue Ribbon School.
Read MoreOverall enrollment has decreased at Capital Community College with the start of the new academic year amidst COVID-19, as well as the eleven other two-year colleges are overseen by the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities. According to preliminary figures, the decline has been in the 10-13 percent range – final numbers are not expected until late September. For Latinos, just as the pandemic has been disproportionately more challenging both in the number of cases and economics, the enrollment decrease is higher, estimated at about 17 percent.
Read MoreThe coronavirus outbreak has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members. The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has now become a majority the first time that has occurred since the Great Depression era, according to a new analysis of national data by the Pew Research Center.
Read MoreAccess to public libraries is especially important for low income working families across Connecticut, “because libraries provide information on social services and job opportunities, free internet and computer access, and a range of free programs, community meetings, and even 3-D printers,” according to a new report issued by Connecticut’s United Way organizations.
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