Mount Wachusett Community College

Five entities based in or connected to Central Massachusetts have received a share of nearly $2.9 million in state workforce training funds.

Mount Wachusett Community College is joining the likes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 12 other Massachusetts colleges in a new prison education consortium.

Mount Wachusett Community College, armed with a $3.2-million federal grant for the next five years, will help create pathways to a healthcare education and career for 85 local students.

Mount Wachusett Community College has changed its criminal justice program for the fall semester to make it easier for students to transfer their credits to a four-year school.

The Greater Gardner Chamber of Commerce has named a marketing and fundraising expert as its new president and CEO.

At a time when colleges are battling high costs and a shrinking pool of high school graduates, they are increasingly turning for growth to an area where they don't need to recruit students, house them in dorms or feed them in dining halls.

Mount Wachusett Community College now offers one of the nine paramedic technology certificate programs in the state.

That lack of advance planning makes a difference to the bottom line.

Six Central Massachusetts colleges will take part in an event at the soon-to-close Mount Ida College to offer options to students who will have to continue their education elsewhere.

Mount Wachusett Community College is starting an initiative to attract veterinary technician students at Mount Ida College who will be displaced at the end of the semester.