First Inmates Graduate from Wesleyan Program

Associate Degrees Earned by 16 Sixteen Men, Nine Women

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy speaks during graduation ceremonies inside the Cheshire Correctional Institution in Cheshire, Conn. Eighteen inmates received associate degrees from Middlesex Community college as part of a program with Wesleyan University’s Center for Prison Education.

Politics and Policy

2017 February 20 - 12:00 am

Bill Designed To Ensure Transfer of College Credit

UConn Rejects 20% of Community College Credits

By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press

The legislation would require officials from UConn and the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education to sit down together and develop easy-to-use uniform “pathways” that would allow students to enroll in courses guaranteed to transfer among all of the state’s public schools.