Clark University

Clark University plans to hold classes in-person during the coming school year starting with the fall semester but with an altered schedule to include a nearly three-month long winter break.

Clark University in Worcester will stop using off-duty Worcester Police officers as security and will no longer require a police officer to be present at large student events, college President David Angel and President-elect David Fithian announced in a joint statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday afternoon.

As protests continue across America over the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — including a protest in Worcester on Monday night — the presidents of six Worcester colleges expressed frustration over racial injustice and sympathy for Floyd and protestors while calling for a systematic change in how the country deals with race relations.

Foreign-born immigrants have long driven the Worcester area’s population growth – and given diversity to its restaurants, shops, schools and workplaces – but a precipitous drop in international arrivals in 2019 could portend challenges to come.

Worcester's Assumption College and Clark University are the latest colleges to delay classes or move them online...

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and The Princeton Review have recognized Assumption College and Clark University, respectively.

In February, Jennifer Roy, founder of Worcester marketing firm Jen Roy PR, was in the first class to complete the Clark University graduate certificate program for cannabis regulatory affairs.

Fund Our Future, an education advocacy coalition that includes unions, faith groups and progressive organizations, gathered Tuesday to detail their fiscal 2021 proposal.

An industry-wide spike in the number of applications from high school students has complicated the fine-tuned formula for figuring out which students – and how many – will ultimately enroll.

Clark University named as its next president on Monday a 1987 graduate and an executive vice president...