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Several Worcester-area college presidents have signed on to a letter decrying the Trump Administration for its actions ...
Worcester residents will decide this ... unanimously supported asking the city manager to create a new zoning ordinance requiring colleges and universities to publicly file a 10-year master ...
Becker College, which closed in 2021, donated $13 million to the Greater Worcester Community Foundation for a new scholarship ...
Batista regarding new or expanded PILOT programs and other ... investment is not a tax but rather an investment from the colleges for Worcester’s future. Petty said that there is a return ...
STUDENTS in the city have been boosted by a cash award to install new outdoor play equipment. New College Worcester (NCW) has been handed £18,500 by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Presidents of five Worcester colleges and universities are pushing back against the City Council’s decision to move forward with a non-binding ballot initiative asking voters if college ...
Worcester voters will be prompted with a non-binding ballot question in November asking them if the city’s private colleges and universities should be required to invest 0.5% of their endowment ...
The challenges and opportunities facing the city, particularly in relation to our private colleges, require new approaches and constructs to ensure Worcester’s financial and economic success ...
“We need a new construct and parameters in how we work with our colleges and universities. A community impact fund or loan pool is a model whereby, through a very modest investment of their ...
The total endowment of Worcester’s five private colleges and universities is estimated ... as well as needed new housing that creates jobs and economic expansion within the city and still ...