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Education
Sweater Weather Researchers at UMass Amherst recently unveiled a tool to combat climate change, fossil-fuel dependency, skyrocketing home heating bills, and gentrification all at once — a simple fabric treated […]
Keeping School in Session When Michael Dodge, provost at American International College (AIC), surveys a higher-education landscape that has seen two Massachusetts institutions, Hampshire College and Anna Maria College, announce […]
Tools to Succeed Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) is now enrolling for the Workforce Readiness Academy, a free, 20-hour-per-week program designed to help prospective students build the digital, academic, […]
More Than Food for Thought Renee Tastad says Holyoke Community College (HCC) takes it seriously when a student withdraws from classes, whether for a semester or permanently. But the […]
Challenging the Assumptions Physicists have long believed that black holes explode at the end of their lives, and that such explosions happen — at most — only once every 100,000 […]
Moving On Up When Michael Dodge thinks about the 227 students from Duggan Academy in Springfield currently taking classes at American International College (AIC), he understands who benefits the […]
Leading the Way The Healey-Driscoll administration recently partnered with Project Lead The Way (PLTW) to launch Future Ready: AI in the Classroom. Through a $135,000 investment, this professional development pilot […]
Turning Back the Clock Brian Easler calls it “an inflection point … a seismic shift in the academy’s upward trajectory.” He was referring to a $20 million project to […]
Recognizing a Legacy of Giving Back As she talked about Steve Kaplan and his many contributions to the nonprofit Link to Libraries, Laurie Flynn, the agency’s executive director, didn’t […]
School of Thought “A shift in the market.” That’s how Robert Johnson, president of Western New England University, chose to describe the current state of higher education, knowing […]
Balancing School and Life Amy Woody knows something about adult learners — students who enroll in college later in life than the typical 18-year-old high-school graduate — because […]
Learning Process July 18 to Sept. 3. That’s 47 days. Not quite seven weeks. That’s how much time LightHouse Holyoke, a non-traditional middle and high school celebrating its 10th year […]
It Starts with a Plan Amid a shifting landscape for higher education, Nicolle Cestero says, colleges that are unwilling to change will be left behind. That’s the idea behind a […]
Emerging Challenges By Kathleen E. Dion and Sabrina Galli By Aug. 1, 2024, universities across the country were required to implement the Biden administration’s new regulations concerning Title IX of […]
Accelerating the Process While UMass Amherst Chancellor Javier Reyes is thoroughly engrossed in the university’s ongoing $600 million fundraising campaign, the most ambitious in the school’s history, he admits to […]
