Tag: Housatonic Community College

Fiona Hodgson brings more than 30 years of professional experience with a focus on institutional advancement for higher education.

Pending regulatory approval, the project -- designed to provide a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective energy source -- is expected to begin construction in the second quarter of 2018.

About 45 student entrepreneurs from six Connecticut colleges competed to create ways to fix problems faced by Connecticut manufacturers.

The college president noted that funding is his most significant challenge, adding that “if we had more funding, we’d have even more of an impact.”

The Fairfield County-based organization has donated $12,000 to the Housatonic Community College Foundation.

Norwalk Community College, Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, and the Danbury campus of Waterbury-based Naugatuck Valley Community College are instituting the policy in time for fall registration.

The new program, which is the only one of its kind being offered by a Connecticut college, will be limited to 30 students.

The grant is designed to help cover expenses for current students with fewer than 70 college credits, as well as those with more but who have not completed a college degree.

The gathering at at Housatonic Community College was coordinated and sponsored by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Fund for Women & Girls.

Sacred Heart University is addressing both the educational question and the role model question through a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to expand its STEM education curriculum.

Scholarships will be given to students taking machining-based training, engineering and computer numerical control classes.

Another trend that impacts the workplace is the erosion of corporate loyalty. While that problem took root before millennials were entering the workforce, it has been accelerated by a new wave of graduates for whom job-hopping is the only way to approach a career.

The way the plan was approved -- if not the plan itself -- is the subject of discontent for the system's Faculty Advisory Committee.

Connecticut – whose high schools do not require personal finance courses -- earned an “F” in providing financial literacy education.

New focus spurred by Facebook's independent audit of advertising metrics.