Two-year Colleges Seek to Rebuild Latino Enrollment After COVID-19 Decline

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Two-year Colleges Seek to Rebuild Latino Enrollment After COVID-19 Decline

Overall 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.

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Marketing Competition for Teenage Girls A Success of Connecticut’s COVID Summer

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Marketing Competition for Teenage Girls A Success of Connecticut’s COVID Summer

One of the bright spots in an otherwise unsettling summer for a few dozen Connecticut 6th -12th grade girls was the time spent participating in a virtual marketing competition known as Camp Erio. The focus was on deeloping a business idea or product that must work to solve the problem and/or improve the lives of people being negatively effected by this problem. The results: impressive.

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Can Preschool Math Games Strengthen Foundation, Interest in STEM Fields?

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Can Preschool Math Games Strengthen Foundation, Interest in STEM Fields?

Wesleyan University Associate Professor of Psychology Anna Shusterman, will begin a study in 65 diverse public and private preschool classrooms throughout Connecticut, supported by a $1.8 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which may have implications for later learning in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

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Libraries Provide Critical Services for Working Low-Income Families, Particularly During COVID

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Libraries Provide Critical Services for Working Low-Income Families, Particularly During COVID

Access 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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Summer Texts Help Students Reach College in Uncertain Times

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Summer Texts Help Students Reach College in Uncertain Times

The Connecticut RISE Network, a New Haven-based community of public high school educators working together to help Connecticut students succeed in and beyond high school, had a busy summer. The group’s annual Summer Melt texting campaign tripled in scope, regularly in touch with 1,838 students who graduated in June from six Connecticut school districts.

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UConn's Laurencin to Receive Prestigious Award from Association of American Medical Colleges

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UConn's Laurencin to Receive Prestigious Award from Association of American Medical Colleges

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has named noted University of Connecticut Professor Cato T. Laurencin as the recipient of the 2020 Herbert W. Nickens Award. The award is bestowed on an individual who has made monumental contributions to promoting justice in medical education and health care equity throughout the nation.

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Nominees for Connecticut Book Awards Named; Virtual Awards Event in October

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Nominees for Connecticut Book Awards Named; Virtual Awards Event in October

The 2020 Connecticut Book Awards, a program of the Connecticut Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Library of Congress and a core program of Connecticut Humanities, will be held virtually at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, 2020. The awards honor the best books written in the past year that have specific ties to the state.

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Connecticut Has Presence in National Inventors Hall of Fame, Including Some Less-Than-Household Names

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Connecticut Has Presence in National Inventors Hall of Fame, Including Some Less-Than-Household Names

The National Inventors Hall of Fame has been honoring the spirit of innovation and promoting inventors as role models since 1973. During those 47 years, 17 inventors with Connecticut connections have been inducted. Some are household names, others less so.

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ECSU Dean to Receive STEM Achievement Award from Connecticut Science Center

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ECSU Dean to Receive STEM Achievement Award from Connecticut Science Center

The Connecticut Science Center has named Carmen Cid, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University, recipient of its 2020 STEM Achievement Award. The 2020 Petit Family Foundation Women in Science Leadership Award will go to Jacquelynn Garofano, the Margaret Ingels Engineering Development Program Manager at Raytheon Technologies.

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