College of the Holy Cross

The College of the Holy Cross has hired Elliott Visconsi, an administrator from the University of Notre Dame and a Holy Cross alumnus, to be the Worcester school’s next provost and dean of the college.

Isabel Tehan, a 2022 graduate of the Boston University master’s program in journalism and former intern at the Philadelphia Business Journal, has been hired by Worcester Business Journal as its newest staff writer.

In 1936, seven white men judged which neighborhoods of Worcester were not viable for real estate financing. Today, as rising costs overburden half of renters in the city, those impacted the most are from those neighborhoods still suffering from lack of investment.

Construction site work on The Cove, a mixed-use development at 89 Green St. in Worcester, is expected to begin next week.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester has purchased a single-family home at 97 College St. and a three-family structure at 99 College St. for a combined $1.25 million.

Doug Howgate, a policy analyst who has helped shape state budgets for nearly two decades as a top Senate staffer and a trusted voice of business interests, has been chosen to take over as president of the influential Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, the organization announced Thursday morning.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will send another $2.2 million to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester for the cost of testing students, faculty, and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse the City of Worcester for operating the 250-bed DCU Center field hospital in the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester will expand its financial aid support of low-income students and students with undocumented status by $40 million.

U.S. News & World Report on Monday released its annual ranking, and several Central Massachusetts colleges and universities placed on both the main lists and its various sublists.