×
×
homepage logo
LOGIN
SUBSCRIBE

Education

NHTI president to step down

CONCORD – In a message to the NHTI community earlier today, Dr. Gretchen Mullin-Sawicki, president of NHTI, has announced she will be leaving the college later this spring. She has served as president of NHTI, Concord’s Community College, since 2019. “It has been an honor serving as ...

Education Freedom Account rule approved despite concerns it’s too vague

CONCORD – Education Freedom Accounts and lack of constraints on eligible expenses under the program were the subjects of a rules discussion by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules Friday. Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and Chris Bond, attorney for the Department of ...

Face coverings to be optional at UMass Lowell beginning Feb. 28

LOWELL, Mass. – Citing the rapid decline of COVID-19 cases in the state, new guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and a campus population nearly 100 percent vaccinated, UMass Lowell announced Thursday that face coverings would be optional on campus beginning Feb. ...

UMass Lowell seeks volunteers for COVID-19 research

LOWELL, Mass. – UMass Lowell is looking for individuals who think they may have COVID-19 to participate in clinical trials that will advance research about the disease. Staff and students in the university’s Solomont School of Nursing are testing volunteers for COVID-19 and will ask to ...

Tufts University president announces plans to step down

MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — The president of Tufts University announced Monday that he will step down in summer 2023. Anthony Monaco did not disclose in a letter to the campus community his future plans but said that "after 12 years the time will be right for the community to welcome a new ...

New Searles Honors Colleague

New Searles Elementary School staff gathered Thursday morning under the guise of a Valentine’s Day staff breakfast to celebrate Beverly Mann, a longtime instructional para-educator at the school. Mann is celebrating 40 years as a school employee this school year as well as her 80th birthday ...