Education

Nichols College will have three new degree programs for the fall semester in entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, criminal psychology.

Enrollment in early college programs in Massachusetts has continually increased over the past three years, even while the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown many teenagers' post-high school planning into flux.

A new report from a Tufts University think tank suggests that now "may not be an optimal moment" to raise unemployment tax rates, but says that a repeated pattern of rate freezes is a "recipe for long-term insolvency and future debt."

A group of 20 Assumption University biology students is spending the spring semester training to become contact tracers to help track the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The College of the Holy Cross has chosen its first ever Black president and first layperson in the Worcester school's 178-year history.

Fitchburg State University will freeze undergraduate tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year, the school announced Tuesday.

Anna Maria College in Paxton is partnering with public access station WCCA TV to run a television production course in downtown Worcester, the pair announced on Friday.

On Jan. 1, Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumna Debora Jackson took over as dean of its Foisie Business School. A member of WPI’s board of trustees and experienced in STEM and business professions, Jackson brought a new level of diversity to the role: her background in seminary.

For decades, women have been moving closer to equality with men in the workplace, particularly in workforce participation and pay. A once-in-a-century pandemic has undone much of that progress.

When Kate Tobiasson, a Westborough resident who spent nearly 15 years working as an English teacher at three different Central Massachusetts school districts, was about to give birth to her first son in February 2013, she had fortunately saved enough accrued paid time off over several years.