Accreditor approves Connecticut community colleges merger

Image:  The merger of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges can move forward after the regional accrediting commission approved a plan by the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system to merge the community colleges and transform them into one college with a dozen campuses. Under the proposed plan—approved Tuesday despite long-standing and vehement opposition from some faculty and staff members—the two-year colleges in the state’s public higher education system will become...