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Education

  • Becker to establish 'social business' center

    May 29, 2015

    Becker College has agreed to establish a center that will focus on how business can identify and solve social problems, working with the Seven Hills Foundation, the Worcester school announced.

    May 29, 2015
  • Chamber seeks feedback on voke education

    May 29, 2015

    Members of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce are being asked for their feedback on vocational technical high schools that the chamber says will help properly prepare students for jobs.

    May 29, 2015
  • Assumption introduces actuary science program

    May 28, 2015

    Assumption College will introduce a new bachelor's degree program in actuarial science in the fall.

    May 28, 2015
  • UMass Medical signs deal with Dublin's Trinity College

    May 28, 2015

    The University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester and the medical school at Trinity College Dublin are strengthening their decade-long collaboration.

    May 28, 2015
  • New college grads head off into a more robust job market

    May 25, 2015

    Now that colleges have bid adieu to their latest crops of graduating seniors, the job market the grads face is the best in years, experts say.

    May 25, 2015
  • Meehan, UMass agree to 5-year contract

    Matt Murphy State House News Service May 22, 2015

    University of Massachusetts Lowell Chancellor Martin Meehan has agreed to a five-year contract to lead the UMass system as its next president with an annual base salary that escalates from $525,000 starting in July to $602,500 in the final year.

    Matt Murphy State House News Service May 22, 2015
  • Seven Hills CEO named Becker’s first ‘professor of practice’

    May 20, 2015

    In a continued bid to expand the college's focus on nonacademic career paths, Becker College has appointed the president and CEO of the Seven Hills Foundation as the school's first Professor of Practice in Social Innovation.

    May 20, 2015
  • UMass Med professor named HHMI Investigator

    May 19, 2015

    University of Massachusetts Medical School professor Job Dekker has won a coveted scientific honor. He has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, the medical school's seventh.

    May 19, 2015
  • F. Javier Cevallos, President, Framingham State University

    May 18, 2015

    F. Javier Cevallos, a native of Ecuador who holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois, began his career in higher education as a professor of Spanish in 1984. The president of Framingham State University discusses his goals, and the

    May 18, 2015
  • Anna Maria names interim president as new leader

    May 14, 2015

    Anna Maria College has chosen Mary Lou Retelle — who has served as interim president since July 2014 — as its 11th president.

    May 14, 2015
  • Meet this year's Central Mass. 100, the region's top employers

    May 11, 2015

    Central Massachusetts' most complete picture of the companies and leaders that drive the region's economy begins with UMass Memorial Health Care.

    May 11, 2015
  • UMass makes right call in selecting new president

    May 11, 2015

    Martin Meehan's track record as chancellor at University of Massachusetts Lowell bodes well for the rest of the UMass system, which, like much of the higher education industry, faces the challenge of continuously increasing costs.

    May 11, 2015
  • Nichols study shows Mass. has 'work to do' on women in leadership

    May 8, 2015

    Massachusetts businesses still have some work to do in placing women in leadership roles, according to the results of a study out of Nichols College.

    May 8, 2015
  • Claremont, South High chosen for BioTeach program

    May 8, 2015

    Two Worcester public high schools are among ten across the state selected for inclusion in a biotechnology education program during the coming school year.

    May 8, 2015
  • Mass. school superintendents seek regulatory relief

    State House News Service May 7, 2015

    Massachusetts school superintendents are seeking relief from regulations and mandates, saying they are overwhelmed by the cost of state and federal rules and their impact on school district budgets.

    State House News Service May 7, 2015
  • Nichols College launches accounting master’s degree

    May 6, 2015

    Nichols College announced Wednesday that it would launch a Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) degree beginning in June.

    May 6, 2015

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While shifting cultural norms in the business community have found hiring managers outwardly working toward hiring a more diverse staff, studies in the last few years by organizations like McKinsey & Co. and Regent University found women and people of color are promoted less frequently than their white male counterparts. This produces a dynamic where company leadership at many organizations remains dominated by white males even as the company's employees become more diversified.