Education

Worcester’s Assumption University has named Brenda Hunt as its first director of ALANA (African-, Latino/Hispanic-, Asian, and Native American) and first-generation student success where she will oversee the university’s Cross-Cultural Center and facilitate access to campus resources and lead retention efforts for students of color.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute has renamed itself the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education, to more accurately portray its role going forward.

This year's incoming freshman class and at least the three classes that follow would have to score higher on the MCAS to graduate high school if the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education votes Monday afternoon to accept a recommendation from Commissioner Jeff Riley.

On Aug. 1, Holy Cross eliminated the $60 application fee for students from Worcester Public Schools, the college announced Wednesday.

The Ar-Raheem Academy of Waltham has purchased the former Frye Family Estate in Marlborough for $3.8 million.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester was awarded a $499,815 Skills Capital Grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to update three nursing labs.

Assumption University in Worcester is offering a program called Fast Track to the Pack for high-school students who have not yet entered their senior year to apply for acceptance before the school year begins.

Framingham State University announced on Thursday that it will receive $1.7 million over three years to fund a residency program in the city’s public schools from the Boston-based Massachusetts Service Alliance, a nonprofit state affiliate of the federal agency, AmeriCorps.

The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation of Worcester has gifted $100,000 to Worcester’s Clark University to fund after-school programs and field trips at its partner school, the University Park Campus School in Worcester’s Main South neighborhood over the next two years, Clark announced on Wednesday.

Following an historic $15-million pledge in February by UMass alumni Dan and Diane Casey Riccio, their eponymous neuroscience fund will support four projects in 2022.