Quinsigamond Community College

In an effort to help support the local business community, Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will offer 20 free online business classes for business owners and their workforces, the school announced on Thursday. 

Students, staff and alumni from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester have mobilized to help fight the coronavirus crisis, the college announced in a press release that week.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester on Tuesday announced the National Science Foundation had awarded it a $298,108 grant to develop a new robotics technician certificate program.

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.

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.

Educating your workforce is a fundamental component in productivity and business advancement; however, one of the key items holding a company back from growth is its ability to educate and advance its workforce.

Colleges with smaller endowments may be getting relatively poorer compared to deep-pocketed peers, but with the economy providing higher investment returns – and more donor support – nearly every Central Massachusetts college has seen endowments grow in the past decade or more.

Four Worcester business and higher education leaders have been named to a new Massachusetts Economic Development Planning Council by Gov. Charlie Baker.

Check out the recent movers and shakers landing new positions in Central Massachusetts.

Karen Duffy, the longtime CEO of Worcester Credit Union, is retiring at the end of August.