Education

A month after seven Worcester representatives signed a letter urging UMass Chan Medical School to increase physician wages, the Worcester university has reached a tentative contract agreement with the physician union representing 700 UMass providers.

Quinsigamond Community College has hired Rocky Knight as director of its newly launched Auxilium Center for Entrepreneurship. 

Clark University has received the largest single gift in the Worcester school’s 138-year history, which the Worcester school will use to fund its restructuring plan announced in June that includes laying off up to 30% of its faculty.

Two projects led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers have been awarded a combined $661,662 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

Fitchburg State University has named Travis Chambers, a former assistant dean at Georgia State University, as its new CFO, starting Dec. 1.

Throughout Central Mass., healthcare organizations, nonprofit leaders, and practitioners are working to combat a startling and unsettling rise in medical misinformation and disinformation.

New England Innovation Academy has launched a $10,000 annual tuition award for incoming 6th and 9th grade...

Margaret Wickens Pearce, an alumna of Clark University in Worcester, has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow,...

Despite major public investments in recent years, the report by the MassINC Policy Center and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau found that students in Boston and "gateway cities" are more likely than their suburban counterparts to "learn in buildings that are deteriorating, lacking in basic features, and often cramped and overcrowded."

Following an 18-year tenure with Worcester’s UMass Chan Medical School, John Hayes has left his position as vice chancellor for advancement to move on to a similar position at the city’s College of the Holy Cross.