Mount Wachusett Community College

🔒Movers & Shakers for Oct. 11, 2021

People are on the move at Greater Worcester Community Foundation, North Brookfield Savings Bank, Reliant Medical Group, and more.

QCC, MWCC to require COVID vaccine by January

Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner and Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will require students, faculty, and staff to have been vaccinated against COVID-19, starting in January.

Holy Cross, WPI, Clark join colleges requiring COVID vaccines for fall semester

Students, faculty and staff wanting to participate in upcoming semesters must now be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at Worcester schools the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Central Mass. colleges in line for expected $100M in aid

Colleges in Central Massachusetts are due to receive an estimated $100 million among them under the latest federal pandemic aid program.

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Enrollment dives at Central Mass. public colleges, between 5-15%

Enrollment at public colleges in Central Massachusetts has dropped substantially, including by more than 10% at Framingham State University and Mount Wachusett Community College, a trend echoed statewide as higher education has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

🔒Central Mass. colleges face an uncertain future

College leaders in Central Massachusetts are grappling with an upturned admissions period and wondering what fall enrollment will look like if students decide they don’t want to travel far for school, or even whether a fall semester would be able to take place on campus anyway.

🔒What to expect in 2020: Colleges & universities will change with the times

Central Massachusetts colleges and universities face a variety of pressures in the coming year, with shifting enrollment trends to new leadership to the need to impress incoming students.

Enrollment pinch squeezing public higher education

Beacon Hill leaders reiterated a single statistic several times over the course of debate on a bill requiring greater financial transparency from the higher education world: over the past five years, 18 private colleges and universities in Massachusetts have closed or merged.

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Local colleges are following national education trends by adding cannabis to the curriculum

Marijuana has been a part of college campuses for dozens of years, but the drug is now finding its way into the classroom, as Central Massachusetts educators are opening their doors to the cannabis industry.