Dean College in Franklin and the owners of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution are creating a program that will give students access to the team's executives and operations as part of their education.
Hopkinton-based EMC Corp., which employs more than 53,000 people around the world, has its own type of solution for the high-tech skills gap – developing its own vendor-agnostic curriculum for colleges and universities to train the IT workers of tomorrow.