Central Connecticut State University

Lawmakers had sharp comments and questions for Connecticut State Colleges and Universities President Mark Ojakian Tuesday in a five-hour long forum on his controversial plan to consolidate the state's 12 community colleges.

Students at the state's four regional universities will likely pay 5 percent more in tuition next year, but it's still unclear how much more students at the state's community colleges will be charged.

Connecticut State Colleges and Universities President Mark Ojakian's steady progress toward consolidating the state's 12 community colleges, while approval from accreditors is still years away, has stoked concerns among faculty and others who believe the merger is a bad idea.

Several nonprofits and state colleges are splitting more than $1 million in grants from a quasi-public funder to spur workforce development in Connecticut.

Dunkin' Donuts Park in downtown Hartford will again host college baseball games this spring.

Two days from inauguration, Gov.-elect Ned Lamont on Monday tapped a regional administrator at the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) to lead the agency.

The estate of a longtime supporter of the Hospital of Central Connecticut (HOCC) has gifted $535,000 to the New Britain hospital, officials said.

Ben Barnes, who has overseen Connecticut's state finances for eight years as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's only secretary of policy and management, was named Monday as the chief financial officer for the state's sprawling system of community colleges and regional state universities.

College-industry partnerships, at least in one case, have made a seemingly impractical major a lot more practical.

CTNext, Connecticut's quasi-public entrepreneurship booster, says it will award $1.3 million among seven higher-education initiatives.