It is well not­ed that Con­necti­cut does not have the night life of a Mia­mi or New York, and it does not have the his­to­ry of a Boston or San Fran­cis­co. The theme of Con­necti­cut not being able to seduce young…

Find­ing employ­ment after grad­u­a­tion is a wide­ly held con­cern for col­lege stu­dents. The issue has per­me­at­ed the 2014 Con­necti­cut guber­na­to­r­i­al race, as incum­bent Dan­nel Mal­loy and GOP chal­lenger Tom Foley have engaged in heat­ed debates over job cre­ation and economic…

Meet Kait­lyn Pearce, a senior grad­u­at­ing this semes­ter from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut.  She’s con­sis­tent­ly held two or three jobs at a time for the past three years, pri­mar­i­ly pay­ing for tuition and trans­porta­tion to receive her diplo­ma. Though her…

Stu­dents at UConn ben­e­fit from Connecticut’s charm­ing sub­ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties, top notch edu­ca­tion and sta­ble econ­o­my, but the lack of young adult friend­ly urban com­mu­ni­ties in the state make grad­u­ates think twice about per­ma­nent­ly set­tling in the state. While nei­ther Gov. Dan­nel Malloy…

These years, there is an increas­ing num­ber of Chi­nese stu­dents come to Amer­i­ca’s uni­ver­si­ty to study. Also, we all face a biggest prob­lem, after grad­u­at­ing from the uni­ver­si­ty, which is a bet­ter choice for us? Go back to Chi­na or…

Alban Mur­tishi, a 19-year-old fifth-semes­ter UConn eco­nom­ics major from Dan­bury, Conn., said that while there are many things he likes about Con­necti­cut, he will go where the jobs and oppor­tu­ni­ties take him after grad­u­a­tion. That will­ing­ness to migrate runs counter…

With the Con­necti­cut guber­na­to­r­i­al elec­tion fast approach­ing, a major top­ic dis­cussed is whether the state is  doing a good job retain­ing a young edu­cat­ed pop­u­lace. Despite the can­di­dates dif­fer­ences, accord­ing to the CT Mir­ror, both Gov­er­nor Dan­nel Mal­loy and Tom Foley believe…