“This should be a blinking red warning light for the higher ed industry. The model is broken - too many schools today are too expensive with not enough ROI. Time for reform,” said Connecticut U.S. Senator Chris Murphy. Data in recent years, before and since COVID, is reflecting concern about higher education.
Read MoreIt has become known as the Great Resignation – the disruption in the job market induced by the two plus years of the pandemic. The latest data, however, indicates that a state-by-state comparison show that Connecticut is among the most stable, showing the fifth lowest resignation rate.
Read MoreAs of July 1st, the Connecticut minimum wage was raised to $14/hour as part of a 5-year plan to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour by 2023. The increase was not without controversy, when the plan began, or now.
Read MoreYale University is one of only two institutions in New England that offers an academic nurse-midwifery specialty. The program, in the Yale School of Nursing, “prepares students as competent midwives who provide family-centered primary health care,” the university’s website explains, noting that “more now than ever, the need and demand for midwives is at an all-time high.”
Read MoreThe Red Sox Foundation has announced recipients – including three Connecticut nonprofits - in the 8th Annual IMPACT Awards presented by the Ruderman Family Foundation. Five nonprofit organizations from each state in New England were nominated for the grant awards, dedicated to raising awareness and improving mental health outcomes.
Read MoreThe vision was to support an inclusive arts and culture sector in the Hartford Region by building an arts economy featuring local artists of color. Launched in the midst of the pandemic in August 2021, when opportunities for the arts – and artists – to flourish were particularly limited, the inaugural Artists of Color Accelerate (AOCA) program was an initiative of The 224 EcoSpace and was funded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Read MoreMichelle McCabe has been named as Executive Director of .Connecticut Main Street Center (CMSC), a leading advocate and resource for downtown revitalization and management, providing technical information, regional cooperation, training and networking in communities across Connecticut and at the state level.
Read MoreThe national Governors Highway Safety Association annual spotlight report projects that drivers nationwide struck and killed 7,485 people walking in 2021 – the most in a single year in four decades. The trend in Connecticut and nine other states is less grim.
Read MoreIt may be back to the future for union membership in the U.S., and a glimpse of what’s happening in Connecticut may reflect a generational change. Although overall union membership in the U.S. “stands at its lowest percentage in roughly a century,” according to The New York Times, that trend may be reversing.
Read MoreAs the Connecticut Board of Regents (BOR) for Higher Education moves forward with the consolidation of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges into one college with 12 campuses, anticipated in July 2023, there will be new leadership atop the Board.
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