Colleges & Universities

Martin Guay, who works at Stanley Black & Decker, was chosen by Gov. Ned Lamont to serve as the Connecticut State Colleges and University system’s Board of Regents chair.

A plan to charge a textbook fee at CT colleges led to questions about whether it would harm or benefit students. Some called it a 'junk fee.'

The final deadline to submit for Connecticut’s automatic admissions was Thursday. The state hopes to have received double the number of submissions as the previous year — when 1,600 college hopefuls participated.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has introduced the COREY Act, named after Corey Hausman of Westport, Connecticut who died in 2018 after falling off his skateboard while attending the University of Colorado.

WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Jessika Harkay to discuss her article, “How CT’s college-readiness system leaves students of color behind,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.

Top students at some Connecticut high schools are finding that they’re not fully prepared for university courses.

Connecticut’s regional university and college system could eliminate more than 3,500 full and part-time jobs — including 654 layoffs — while boosting student tuition and fees by as much as $1,000 by 2025, based on funding in the latest state budget proposal.

The University of Connecticut's Board of Trustees removed the interim tag from Radenka Maric's title on Wednesday, appointing the 56-year-old engineer to be the school's 17th president.

The Yale University football team will host Howard University in the annual NAACP Harmony Classic on Saturday in New Haven.

The Connecticut State Colleges and University System expect a shortfall of $220 million dollars over the next two years. The finance and infrastructure committee discussed possible budget cuts at a meeting earlier this week.