Worcester State University

The Guild of St. Agnes, a nonprofit childcare profit childcare agency, opened a new child care and early education center in Worcester in collaboration with Worcester State University on Thursday.

As the House and Senate prepare for budget negotiations to get underway in a few weeks, a coalition advocating for debt-free public higher education is making a final push for historic investments into the sector with the advent of newly available surtax funds.

Framingham State University hired Marilyn Cleary as its new dean of graduate and continuing education. Cleary will begin in her new role June 19th.

Two Worcester colleges and a magnet school have received grants from the Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives incubator to fund programs to help increase the diversity in the life sciences workforce and help solve some of the industry’s future workforce needs.

The share of Massachusetts students who take out loans to pay for public higher education has exploded in the past two decades while the combined pressure of inflation and a lack of investment have hamstrung the impact of state-funded financial aid, according to a new report.

Worcester State University and Quinsigamond Community College will split grants totaling $1.6 million intended to build nursing talent and create career pathways in Central Massachusetts.

Bri’s Sweet Treats, a Leicester-based chocolatier owned by Briana Azier, will open a location in the Worcester Public Market, expecting to begin serving her products in mid-January.

After winning a long fight to impose a surtax on the state's highest earners designed to fund education and transportation, unions and educators from across Massachusetts are making it clear that public higher education is on the top of their priority list for the newfound funds.

Janelle Ashley, Worcester State University’s first woman president, passed away on Oct. 7 in her hometown of Nacogdoches, Texas at the age of 81.

The nursing shortage is a Central Massachusetts and national problem rooted in demographics.