Education

Dr. PETER ANTKOWIAK has been named the medical director of the emergency department at Harrington HealthCare System,...

This year’s 40 Under Forty class is certainly like no other. Although full of the archetypal up-and-coming leaders of Central Massachusetts business organizations, each member of the Class of 2020 has found a way to thrive in the midst of an international crisis.

Some freshmen at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will spend the fall living at a hotel just off campus. Clark University and Framingham State University have plans in place to isolate students in their dorms while awaiting coronavirus test results.

A summertime advertisement from Cape Cod Community College makes its case in plain financial terms: one course...

Becker College in Worcester has become the third in the city this week to say it is shifting classes online for the fall semester as worries mount about rising coronavirus cases in Massachusetts and travel restrictions in place from those coming from many other states.

Government leaders in the United States no longer prioritize funding higher education at levels needed to keep colleges solvent and competitive with overseas options, Massachusetts education leaders said in a Worcester Business Journal webinar Tuesday.

College of the Holy Cross in Worcester has changed its plans for the fall semester, electing to go online-only and allow a very limited number of students to live on campus, the school's president said in a letter to the campus community Monday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the first circuit vacated a decision made by a U.S. District Court judge last year, allowing the ex-wife of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s largest donor to continue pursuing legal options to retrieve funds her late ex-husband allegedly hid before donating them to the Worcester school.

Clark University has appointed a new dean of its School of Management, who will begin in the new role in September.

People are on the move at the Massachusetts Bankers Association, UMass Medical School and Harrington Physician Services' Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation practice, among others.