Isabel Tehan

Fitchburg Comprehensive Treatment Center, an outpatient opioid addiction treatment provider, has expanded its programming and medication-assisted treatment plans.

Despite progress in the lower rungs of higher education’s leadership ladder, women are not equally represented in the industry’s top executive spot.

With affirmative action now barred in college admissions, workplace and education officials expect an immediate impact in the diversity at the start of the workforce talent pipeline and worry about a cooling effect on DEI efforts overall.

Anna Maria College has added two new majors to its catalog. The Paxton school will now offer data analytics and cybersecurity majors, which are meant to add to the college’s career-ready degree programming.

The Worcester institutions The College of the Holy Cross and UMass Memorial Health, are partnering this summer to offer hands-on experience to students at the Worcester college.

Worcester-based Euro-American Worldwide Logistics has completed a 20,000-square-foot expansion of its Airport Drive warehouse facilities in support of the life sciences industry.

Interise, a Boston-based nonprofit with the goal of providing resources and assistance to minority-owned or low-income area-based organizations, has brought its NextStage Minority Business Entrepreneur Academy and NextStage Accelerator to Central Massachusetts in partnership with The Urban League of Springfield and Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.

Grafton food insecurity nonprofit Community Harvest Project has secured an Agricultural Preservation Restriction for its 75-acre apple and peach orchard in Harvard.

Framingham firm Ameresco, which specializes in clean and renewable energy, has completed the installation of a solar field which will power a utility-structure manufacturing plant in Bristol, Indiana.

Milford life sciences firm Waters Corp. will lay off about 4% of its 8,200 employees worldwide, and most of the impacted Massachusetts employees will be at the Milford headquarters.