Education

Now that colleges have bid adieu to their latest crops of graduating seniors, the job market the grads face is the best in years, experts say.

University of Massachusetts Lowell Chancellor Martin Meehan has agreed to a five-year contract to lead the UMass system as its next president with an annual base salary that escalates from $525,000 starting in July to $602,500 in the final year.

In a continued bid to expand the college's focus on nonacademic career paths, Becker College has appointed the president and CEO of the Seven Hills Foundation as the school's first Professor of Practice in Social Innovation.

University of Massachusetts Medical School professor Job Dekker has won a coveted scientific honor. He has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, the medical school's seventh.

F. Javier Cevallos, a native of Ecuador who holds a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois, began his career in higher education as a professor of Spanish in 1984. The president of Framingham State University discusses his goals, and the state of public universities.

Anna Maria College has chosen Mary Lou Retelle — who has served as interim president since July 2014 — as its 11th president.

Martin Meehan's track record as chancellor at University of Massachusetts Lowell bodes well for the rest of the UMass system, which, like much of the higher education industry, faces the challenge of continuously increasing costs.

Central Massachusetts' most complete picture of the companies and leaders that drive the region's economy begins with UMass Memorial Health Care.

Massachusetts businesses still have some work to do in placing women in leadership roles, according to the results of a study out of Nichols College.

Two Worcester public high schools are among ten across the state selected for inclusion in a biotechnology education program during the coming school year.