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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: Abigail Mathews
Updated: August 17, 2020Abigail Mathews helps lead the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center’s three Worcester Public School care centers, giving her an opportunity to meet with countless students and help make sure they’re receiving regular care.
Updated: August 17, 2020
WBJ announces the 40 Under Forty, Class of 2020
Updated: August 17, 2020This year’s 40 Under Forty class is certainly like no other. Although full of the archetypal up-and-coming leaders of Central Massachusetts business organizations, each member of the Class of 2020 has found a way to thrive in the midst of an
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Dr. Jennifer (Zorge) Litchfield
Updated: August 17, 2020Litchfield considers herself an ultimate townie, living in the same Shrewsbury neighborhood she and her husband both grew up in.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Zu Shen
Updated: August 17, 2020In 2018, Zu Shen joined MBI as vice president, counseling startup companies scientifically and advising them on commercializing their technologies.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Kate Marquis
Updated: August 17, 2020Early this year, she opened Lilac & Oak, a flower farm in New Braintree and forestry business in North Brookfield, selling dry organic flowers for crafts and helping landowners make sustainably minded decisions regarding their forested land.
Updated: August 17, 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
Central Mass. colleges face an unprecedented semester
Updated: August 17, 2020Some freshmen at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will spend the fall living at a hotel just off campus. Clark University and Framingham State University have plans in place to isolate students in their dorms while awaiting coronavirus test results.
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
40 Under Forty 2020: Tracy Baldelli
Updated: August 17, 2020Tracy Baldelli has what can be an unenviable task of asking people for money.
Updated: August 17, 2020
Community colleges see opening in changed higher ed world
August 13, 2020A summertime advertisement from Cape Cod Community College makes its case in plain financial terms: one course at the school will cost $670 during the upcoming pandemic-affected semester, compared to more than $2,000 at many four-year colleges.
August 13, 2020
Becker joins local colleges changing to online only
August 13, 2020Becker College in Worcester has become the third in the city this week to say it is shifting classes online for the fall semester as worries mount about rising coronavirus cases in Massachusetts and travel restrictions in place from those coming
August 13, 2020
Mass. leaders say support for higher education is inadequate
August 11, 2020Government leaders in the United States no longer prioritize funding higher education at levels needed to keep colleges solvent and competitive with overseas options, Massachusetts education leaders said in a Worcester Business Journal webinar
August 11, 2020
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