Education

The number of Massachusetts workers represented by unions grew by 3.23% to 447,000 in 2022, according to data released on Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Data Statistics.

African Community Education, a Worcester nonprofit serving African immigrants and refugees, will receive $3 million from the new federal budget to renovate its new center in Worcester.

Framingham State University has named Christimara Garcia as director of its Entrepreneur Innovation Center.

The School of Management at Worcester’s Clark University has formed a partnership with Indian Institute of Management Shillong in India.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Chicago investment firm Harrison Street announced a partnership on Tuesday aimed at reducing WPI’s carbon footprint by expanding energy-conservation measures, improving WPI’s power plant, and developing sustainable energy technologies for the WPI campus.

David Bedard has committed $100,000 to Nichols College in Dudley to support strategies designed to increase the prominence of the school regionally and nationally, according to a Wednesday press release from the college.

Clark University in Worcester is offering a 25% tuition discount on graduate programs offered through its School of Management to eligible full- and part-time employees of organizations who are members of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Health, Bay State Savings Bank, and more.

WBJ’s Best of Business awards are centered around one idea: referrals.

Isabel Tehan, a 2022 graduate of the Boston University master’s program in journalism and former intern at the Philadelphia Business Journal, has been hired by Worcester Business Journal as its newest staff writer.