Education

College of the Holy Cross and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have landed in the top 120 schools nationally in an annual Wall Street Journal ranking released Friday.

UMass Medical School has named a professor of population and quantitative health sciences as its first vice provost for health equity.

Quinsigamond Community College has received a $1.3-million federal grant to support first-generation or economically disadvantaged students, or those with disabilities.

Assumption University in Worcester will name its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences after Big Y founders and longtime benevolent alumnus Donald D’Amour and his wife Michele D’Amour, the school announced on Monday.

The U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, which are closely watched in the industry and among prospective students and their families, were less kind this year to Worcester colleges.

The schools made their thoughts known in a letter to House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Senate President Karen Spilka and the six legislators who have been negotiating a compromise economic development bill since late July.

Nichols College President Susan West Engelkemeyer will retire at the end of this school year following a decade leading the Dudley school, Nichols announced Wednesday.

Two Lancaster human service agencies are forming an affiliation and a plan to eventually merge.

MassBay Community College’s practical nursing program has been ranked first in the state by a nursing advocacy organization.

Framingham State University has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from the magazine INSIGHT into Diversity.