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It isn’t heavily dependent on tourism or conventions, and it has relatively few hotel rooms. It isn’t home to any casinos and doesn’t host headquarters for any major airlines, energy companies, automakers or cruise lines, among others who have been hardest hit.

Massachusetts medical schools are allowing their students to graduate three months earlier than usual this year, a move that could inject 700 additional physicians into the healthcare system during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael Collins said in an announcement on Thursday.

Framingham State University has donated more than $8,000 worth of medical supplies to the MetroWest Medical Center in response to organizations being asked to support healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The defunct Atlantic Union College has sold a series of small properties around its Lancaster campus in the last two months, nearly two years after holding its last courses.

Schoolchildren in Massachusetts won't return to their classrooms until at least May 4, Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday shortly after signing executive orders to extend the temporary closure of all schools and non-emergency child care centers through April.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute employees have mobilized to help provide medical providers with emergency supplies amid the COVID-19 crisis, the school announced in a press release this week.

With many college students now learning remotely off-campus or while back living with their families, refunding the room and board payments for those students while they're away is going to be a "huge issue," according to the House chair of the Higher Education Committee.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester and Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner moved all classes online and ceased all face-to-face instruction for the rest of the semester.

Anna Maria College in Paxton has joined an increasingly long list of area schools closing down in response to the coronavirus, announcing Tuesday all instruction will be moved online and all events will be canceled for the rest of the school year.

Many Central Massachusetts executives see golf as not only a way to make or keep connections in the business world, but also as a passion.