Education

Adams will join Pakachoag effective May 1, bringing with him more than 20 years of arts administration and music performance experience.

The layoffs and furloughs represent about 3% of UMass Chan’s entire workforce, which includes more than 6,500 employees total and more than 4,000 in Central Massachusetts.

Following the no-confidence vote, union members are now engaging in a practice of work-to-rule, where they only adhere to the minimum requirements of their contracts.

Both Mero-Carlson and Mayor Joseph Petty insisted these proposed mandatory payments to the city government are not a tax. 

Worcester State University will establish two nursing endowment funds and a study abroad program following a $1.24-million gift from assets of the city’s former Becker College.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is warning the effects of these cuts will be irretrievable, impacting residents, employees, and companies through all industry sectors.

Coming on the heels of news about four WPI students have their visas revoked, Clark University has seen a dozen students at the school suffer the same fate.

Federal authorities have revoked the visas of four international students studying at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

The Turning 22 program, which has its largest class to date and helps young adults move into adult services, features an increasing share of participants on the autism spectrum.

The testimony from students follows recent calls by K-12 education advocates in Massachusetts for the state to rethink the structure of Chapter 70 funding, which they say is currently forcing smaller, regional and rural districts into budget shortfalls.