Education

The House has given near-unanimous approval of a $723 million supplemental budget that would stash $400 million of last year's surplus in reserves and spend millions more on the MBTA and other priorities.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has made two new lists of the best online programs for electrical engineering and its master of business administration.

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Clark University has announced a new, full four-year scholarship for rural first-generation college students from Maine’s eastern Washington and Hancock counties.

Becker College in Worcester continues its push into all things gaming with a first-ever esports head coach and a new partnership with visual software developer SideFX.

Quinsigamond Community College has received a $250,000 state grant and MassHire Metro South/West $219,000 to help unemployed or underemployed people fill in-demand jobs.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute began work Friday on a new $80-million building next to Gordon Library for new academic, research and student services space.

A lawsuit filed by the ex-wife of the largest donor in Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s history has been dismissed, with the judge ruling the woman had no rightful claim to money her ex-husband had donated to the school. 

Winston Oluwole Soboyejo has been named Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s provost after serving in the role in an interim position since September 2018.

Charles Monahan, the president of MCPHS University for more than two decades and a Worcester native, will retire effective in January, the school announced Friday.