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Presidents: Keep Mass. colleges out of sport betting
September 11, 2020The schools made their thoughts known in a letter to House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Senate President Karen Spilka and the six legislators who have been negotiating a compromise economic development bill since late July.
September 11, 2020
Nichols president retiring at end of school year
September 9, 2020Nichols College President Susan West Engelkemeyer will retire at the end of this school year following a decade leading the Dudley school, Nichols announced Wednesday.
September 9, 2020
Perkins School & RFK Children's Action Corps to create $46M merger
September 8, 2020Two Lancaster human service agencies are forming an affiliation and a plan to eventually merge.
September 8, 2020
MassBay practical nursing program ranked first in Mass.
September 3, 2020MassBay Community College’s practical nursing program has been ranked first in the state by a nursing advocacy organization.
September 3, 2020
Framingham State receives diversity award
September 3, 2020Framingham State University has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from the magazine INSIGHT into Diversity.
September 3, 2020
Teachers, nurses detail 16 back-to-school concerns
September 1, 2020A new coalition of educators, school nurses and other support staff called Monday for schools across the state to postpone any in-person learning and adopt a phased approach until a range of potential COVID-19 safety issues are addressed.
September 1, 2020
Ten of the 23 highest-paid state employees work for UMass Medical School, only two are women
August 28, 2020Out of the 23 highest-paid state employees in 2019, 10 work for UMass Medical School in Worcester, according to the WBJ Research Department, which sourced its data from the State’s Comptroller Office.
August 28, 2020
Quinsigamond Community College to open Southbridge location
August 25, 2020Quinsigamond Community College, based in Worcester, will set up a location inside Southbridge Middle High School, the college announced in conjunction with the Town of Southbridge on Tuesday.
August 25, 2020
WPI receives $877K to support cell engineering program
August 21, 2020Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received an $877,314 grant from a capital funding initiative led by the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, according to a Thursday announcement.
August 21, 2020
Mass. has worst U.S. unemployment rate for second straight month
August 21, 2020Massachusetts has the highest unemployment rate in the country for the second month in a row, despite a small decline from June to July.
August 21, 2020
Eight Central Mass. colleges make new Princeton rankings
August 19, 2020Central Massachusetts colleges have made it into the Princeton Review's annual rankings, including for best education and more niche categories — like where students study the least, get involved in Greek life or smoke the most cannabis.
August 19, 2020
Worcester businesses feel ebb and flow of students
August 19, 2020The four or five new customers a week Sal Arcuri gains each fall when college students come back to town help his spa and salon, located just down the road from Worcester State University, earn a little extra cash.
August 19, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Amanda Theinert
Updated: August 17, 2020It is Becker’s master’s in fine arts program that houses the school’s renowned video game design program, and it’s Amanda Theinert who helped build the curriculum and get the new academic program running.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Dave Ryan
Updated: August 17, 2020By the time Dave Ryan was 25, he was already a corporate controller of a $50-million manufacturing company, Superior Cake Products. Ryan impressively grew United Medical Waste from a startup to a multimillion dollar company in – wait for it – five
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Nicholas S. Lynch
Updated: August 17, 2020At Webster Five, Lynch might seem to have a by-the-numbers type job, maybe buried in paperwork. He sees it as being trusted with a role in one of the most important decisions in someone’s life: buying a home.
Updated: August 17, 2020
Movers & Shakers for August 17, 2020
August 17, 2020Dr. PETER ANTKOWIAK has been named the medical director of the emergency department at Harrington HealthCare System, which has emergency care centers in Southbridge and Webster.
August 17, 2020
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