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CAMPUS SAFETY | Campus rape, terrorism focus of Worcester conference - State House News Service
9/29/16 - Massachusetts law enforcement and college officials gathered Wednesday to talk about sexual assaults and terrorist threats, two areas of focus that have commanded attention in the past decade.
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CAMPUS SAFETY | At Worcester conference, campus safety report focuses on sexual assault - The Worcester Telegram
9/28/16 - The state Department of Higher Education, Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, and the office of Attorney General Maura Healey hosted the all-day conference at the DCU Center Wednesday titled “Securing our Future” and focused on campus safety and violence prevention.
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CAMPUS SAFETY | Campus safety violence prevention task force meets at DCU Center - Worcester Mag
9/28/16 - Lt. Governor Karyn Polito joined Attorney General Maura Healey Secretary of Public Safety and Security Daniel Bennett, Secretary of Education Jim Peyser, Higher Education Commissioner Carlos E. Santiago, State Senator Michael Moore, University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan and campus representatives from public and private colleges across Massachusetts at the DCU center this morning for a conference on campus safety and violence prevention.
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CAMPUS SAFETY | State higher education officials focus on campus safety, violence prevention - Daily Hampshire Gazette
9/28/16 - Lhamon was the keynote speaker at “Securing Our Future,” a conference in Worcester on Wednesday focusing on campus safety and violence prevention. Some 350 campus officials from public and private institutions around the state gathered to discuss those topics during the daylong event.
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CAMPUS SAFETY | Campus security the focus of conference in Worcester - WWLP.com
9/28/16 - The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education hosted a Campus Safety and Violence Prevention Conference in Worcester Wednesday. Its focus: addressing active shooter and sexual assaults on campus.
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CAMPUS SAFETY | New statistic released on sexual assaults on U.S. college campus - Western Mass News WGGB/WSHM
9/28/16 - It’s a staggering statistic haunting universities across America. As many as 1 in 4 female undergraduates are sexually assaulted on campus. State officials gathered today to talk about sexual assault on college campuses. Some local universities, like many across the nation, are working hard to spread awareness and teach their students about prevention.
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CAMPUS SAFETY | Massachusetts Educators, Police to Discuss Campus Safety at Conference - Associated Press
9/27/16 - Keeping students safe on college campuses is the focus of an upcoming conference in Massachusetts. The state Department of Higher Education says the gathering scheduled for Wednesday at the DCU Center in Worcester is expected to attract hundreds of officials from public and private schools.
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BUNKER HILL CC | U.S. Department of Education Awards $1.7M AANAPISI Grant to Bunker Hill Community College - ABC6
9/29/16 - Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) has received a $1.7 million grant from the United States Department of Education's Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) program, created to expand the capacity of educational institutions to serve these populations as well as low-income individuals. The funds, to be awarded over five years, will impact the College's large and growing population of Asian American and low-income English language learners.
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MCLA | MCLA President Dr. Jamie Birge - WAMC
9/29/16 - A veteran of higher education who grew up in Lee is the new President of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Jamie Birge was named in December to be the college's 12th president. He is now into his first full academic year.
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MIDDLESEX CC | Middlesex Community College lands big grant - Lowell Sun Online
9/29/16 - Middlesex Community College has received a $1.7 million grant to help Asian-American students with support services and activities, a boon for students from the area's Cambodian community.
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MT. WACHUSETT CC | After 22-Year Ban, Pilot PELL Program for Incarcerated Students Kicks Off - Truthout
9/29/16 - Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) in Gardner, Massachusetts, was also selected to participate in the Second Chance Pilot. Beginning in January, MWCC faculty will teach in two state facilities and one federal facility. "We're starting small and anticipate 72 students," explained MWCC President Daniel Asquino. "The curriculum will be tied to manufacturing. This will be a hands-on, laddered, certificate program and students will take six classes -- 18 credits -- in things like meas...
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UMASS SYSTEM | UMass recruits in Springfield for MassMutual-inspired cyber security program - masslive.com
9/29/16 - When the University of Massachusetts was developing its cyber security program at the UMass Center at Springfield, it surveyed area employers about the need for trained computer security professionals. Yes, please, they said. We want more ... and fast.
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MASSASOIT CC | New program at Braintree High trains students as first responders - The Patriot Ledger
9/28/16 - In a matter of weeks, students in a new class at Braintree High School will have a skill that could help them get hired. The yearlong emergency responder program, run in partnership with Massasoit Community College, will enable students to obtain certifications needed by people pursuing careers in health care or public safety.
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BRIDGEWATER STATE U | Attleboro campus of Bridgewater State University offers certificate program in logistics - The Sun Chronicle
9/27/16 - For that reason, Feldman and BSU have developed a certificate program, starting next month, to educate workers and middle managers about the ongoing transformation of logistics and associated technology that are already sweeping the industry. The university also plans to offer a lecture series and workshops aimed at employees already working in logistics-dependent industries.
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BUNKER HILL CC | Facing hunger on college campuses - The Boston Globe
9/27/16 - As the man shuffled from table to table, picking up a can of spaghetti sauce, some carrots, and a five-pound bag of potatoes, a Bunker Hill administrator was rattling off statistics. Every month, about 120 low-income undergraduates take 5,000 pounds of groceries that are gone in less than an hour. Still, most months, it doesn’t feel like it’s enough.
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BUNKER HILL CC | Recognizing College Opportunity “Champions of Change” - whitehouse.gov
9/27/16 - Eleven individuals from across the country will be honored at the White House on Friday as “Champions of Change for College Opportunity” who have done important work in their own communities to strengthen access to high-quality education. Pam Eddinger, PhD, is the president of Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) in Boston. BHCC is an urban 2-year public institution serving 19,000 learners annually.
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MASSART | At MassArt, posters in one gallery, science in another - The Boston Globe
9/26/16 - The two shows at MassArt’s Paine and Bakalar galleries aren’t paired. They do bear a nicely inside-out relation to each other. Applied art, the subject of “A Century of Style: Masterworks of Poster Design,” is about staying on the surface and doing it memorably. Scientific inquiry, which inspires “Encircling the World: Contemporary Art, Science, and the Sublime,” is about going beneath the surface and doing it revealingly.
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SALEM STATE U | 'This is our future': Salem State students engage at presidential debate watch party - salemnews.com
9/26/16 - Salem State University was holding its second of more than a dozen election season events aimed at connecting students with the national debate and conversation leading into the Nov. 8 general election.
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WESTFIELD STATE U | Westfield State held a presidential debate watch party | WWLP.com
9/26/16 - Westfield State University is holding a watch party for the presidential debate. The watch party is being co-hosted by the communication and political science departments to help students learn more about the presidential candidates.
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MIDDLESEX CC / UMASS LOWELL | MCC, UML greet Honors students - Lowell Sun Online
9/25/16 - The Middlesex Community College Commonwealth Honors Program and the UMass Lowell Honors College recently held a joint admission and welcome event on MCC's Lowell campus. The special orientation session was designed for students admitted to UML but who were placed on a wait list. They were encouraged to keep their momentum going by enrolling at Middlesex as Honors students.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | College completion failures must be tackled in tandem with costs, report says - The Hechinger Report
9/29/16 - A new report by the think-tank Education Trust, issued Thursday, excoriates the federal government and state governments for failing to create a college-finance system that focuses both on cost and on completion.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | Survey of presidents and board members suggests shared governance matters to them but could be improved upon - Inside Higher Ed
9/29/16 - While most presidents and board members from both public and private institutions believe that shared governance is working adequately, they believe it could be more effective. Some 95 percent of board members said that shared governance is a very important or moderately important component of decision making on their campuses, and they also overwhelmingly said that it’s important or moderately important to higher education overall.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | An Online Education Breakthrough? A Master’s Degree for a Mere $7,000 - The New York Times
9/28/16 - But one highly ranked program, at Georgia Tech, has taken a very different approach. Its master’s in computer science costs less than one-eighth as much as its most expensive rival — if you learn online. And a new study by Harvard economists found that in creating the program, Georgia Tech may have discovered a whole new market for higher education, one that could change the way we think about the problem of college costs.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | More colleges drop application fees for low-income students - Inside Higher Ed
9/28/16 - But momentum appears to be building for the idea that fees may discourage low-income applicants, who may doubt that they will get a waiver and who already may feel intimidated by a college-application process that no one in their family might have tried before.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | For-Profit University Students Likely to Default on Loans - The Atlantic
9/27/16 - The $1.3 trillion composite-debt total is far from the only problem degree seekers—especially those at for-profit universities—face.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | U.S. quietly works to expand apprenticeships to fill white-collar jobs - The Hechinger Report
9/27/16 - Although U.S. apprenticeships have traditionally focused on manual skills such as automotive repair and carpentry, the United States is eyeing European models like this — which provide fast-tracked, on-the-job training in white-collar professions — to prepare people for some of the country’s 5.6 million unfilled jobs as college costs, and the time it takes to earn degrees, keep going up.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | Dormitory Prices Lead to Socioeconomic, Racial Segregation - The Atlantic
9/26/16 - As calls intensify for more diversity at universities and colleges, some students and researchers say socioeconomic and racial segregation on campuses is instead on the rise. Among other things, they say, differently priced dorms and dining halls are dividing rich and poor—and, by extension, white and nonwhite—by what they can afford to pay.
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HIGHER ED TRENDS | Inequality in the Virtual Classroom: The Limit of MOOCs - The Atlantic
9/26/16 - When massive open online courses, or MOOCs, exploded in popularity in the early 2010s, educators were particularly excited about the courses’ potential to give disadvantaged students equal access to a quality education. But a bevy of recent research has shown that online learning has largely fallen short of that goal.
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K-12 TRENDS | It's time for vocational schools to get some respect - The Boston Globe
9/28/16 - Massachusetts vocational schools are stretched thin at a time when local employers anticipate the majority of jobs they’ll create in the next few years will be well suited to vocational school grads. Business owners and others fear not enough is being done to address the problem.
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