Education

Nichols College has received a $2-million gift to go toward scholarships for local students and a variety of academic initiatives, the Dudley school announced Wednesday.

College of the Holy Cross is planning to hold its spring semester in-person on the Worcester campus, despite rising coronavirus case numbers this fall, saying it has learned from operations this fall on campus and from peer colleges.

Colleges in New England were already on the lookout for an expected drop in high school-age graduates locally, and struggling in some cases to balance high costs with keeping education affordable for students.

Assumption University in Worcester will lift its shelter-in-place order at 7 a.m. on Monday, with residential students allowed to move around campus beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, according to a notice distributed to the school’s community.

Quinsigamond Community College's online associate degree program offers America's fifth best return on investment, according to a higher education rankings site.

Assumption University will lock down its campus for a week starting Friday, and ask students to shelter in place amid a coronavirus outbreak that already led to more than one in five residential students having to quarantine or isolate themselves out of precaution.

More than one out of five residential students at Assumption University are in quarantine or isolation, the Worcester school's president said to the campus community Wednesday.

Worcester Academy has named a new leader of the private school who will begin his term next July.

Fitchburg State University will no longer charge an application fee for its undergraduate programs, the school announced on Monday.

Unlike many others in the hospitality industry impacted by the pandemic, the living history museum Old Sturbridge Village was put into a unique situation because of the highly skilled and specialized nature of its employees, which are hard to replace.