Education

The New England Center for Children, a Southborough nonprofit specializing in treating children with autism globally, has named Darryl Agostinelli as its first chief technology officer, the school announced on Tuesday.

Regulations adopted Tuesday and set to affect applicants for the 2022-2023 school year will require vocational-technical schools to develop their own admissions policies "that promote equitable access", removing the requirement that grades, attendance, discipline records and counselor recommendations be used as admissions criteria.

QCC President Dr. Luis Pedraja spoke with WBJ about the school’s plans for the facilities, and how it might help bolster the region’s manufacturing workforce.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute announced on Tuesday it has named Michael Horan as its new chief financial officer.

Worcester Business Journal announced on Tuesday its manufacturing and diversity & inclusion reporter, Monica Benevides, has been promoted to the position of senior staff writer.

A year of pandemic learning has emphasized key issues that existed before the pandemic and induced efforts to provide resources to these key areas.

With Mimi Sheller of Philadelphia’s Drexel University just named incoming dean, The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic University has launched as a formalizing and furthering of something the university has done all along: global projects. 

Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting and operations division of UMass Medical School in Worcester, will shift 500 employees to a work-from-home hybrid model, taking them out of the school’s 333 South St. location in Shrewsbury.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester has received $150,000 and a $25-million state bond investment to renovate and create a new advanced manufacturing and robotics center, the school announced on Monday.

A sociology professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to study climate planning in Worcester and Tampere, Finland.