Overcoming Your Former Self: Small Steps Toward Self-Esteem
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When analyzing the driving factor behind your decisions, there is one common denominator that many people overlook: self-esteem.
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Upskilling Seen as Key to Connecticut, New England Economic Growth; Policymakers, Employers, Educators Urged to Act
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Upskilling - education, training and development that prepares someone for advancement in the workforce. - may be the key to Connecticut’s and New England’s economic recovery, a 2020 higher education report suggests.
Read MoreUConn’s Avery Point Marine Sciences Building to be Renamed Honoring Lowell Weicker
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The Marine Sciences Building at the University of Connecticut’s Avery Point campus on the Connecticut shoreline will be renamed to honor former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker Jr.
Read MoreCIGNA Grant Aims to Advance Efforts to Add Diversity to Ranks of School Superintendents
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Amidst 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 MoreConnecticut Initiative Seeks to Better Prepare Future Pediatricians to Address Behavioral Health Needs of Children
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In Connecticut, the prevalence of diagnosed behavioral health conditions or developmental delay among children ages 3 to 17 years old increased from 16% in 2007 to 25% in 2018. Few would be surprised if the percentage today, seven months after the arrival of COVID-19 in Connecticut and all that it has wrought, is even larger.
Read MoreWill CT Legislature Resume Efforts to Attract More Teachers of Color?
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Of 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 MoreTime is Now for Action on Health Care
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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown all of us onto an uncertain path forward to health and well-being. We do not know how and when the residents of our state will enjoy a world without this public health threat. We do know that, despite our collective best efforts to keep safe, people are suffering physically, emotionally and financially.
Read MoreBest Place to Live, Blue Ribbon School: A Week in the Life of Cheshire, CT
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It’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 MoreSimtech's Richard Leite is CT's Small Business Exporter of the Year
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Richard Leite, President & CEO of Simtech, Inc., based in East Granby, has been selected as Exporter of the Year by the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in Connecticut. Established in 1988, Simtech distributes and exports military aircraft spares to the U.S. and foreign governments, companies and depots. The company has customers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and North America.
Read MoreTwo-year Colleges Seek to Rebuild Latino Enrollment After COVID-19 Decline
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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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