CHINESE AND OTHER international students are flocking to US colleges, including two campuses of the University of Massachusetts. UMass Boston, viewed locally as primarily a commuter school, saw its number […]
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The university connection
scott brown and Elizabeth Warren have been running neck and neck in the polls for months, but when an October survey conducted by the University of Massachusetts Lowell became one […]
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Filling the job training gap
Sometimes a good story is worth a thousand well-reasoned policy reports. Adrian Walker’s column in the Boston Globe on Monday, outlining a tale of shockingly clueless leadership at Roxbury Community […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Health Care
Rock star science
Craig Mello and UMass Medical School Chancellor Michael Collins, with the Albert B. Sherman Center in the background. craig mello is sitting in a chair outside the office of […]
Posted inEducation, State House News Service
UMass Lowell student avoids deportation
Denis Lemos, an undocumented student from Framingham who was featured in a CommonWealth story on immigration last fall, is being allowed to stay in the United States. The US Department […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Economy, Education, Health Care
Patrick delivers state of the state
Below is the full text of Governor Deval Patrick’s state of the state address, delivered Monday night at the State House. Lieutenant Governor and fellow Constitutional Officers, Madame President, Mr. […]
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BU instructor resigns after seeking grading help
A Boston University lecturer resigned after using Craigslist to hire someone to help grade student papers, BU officials said. A BU spokesman confirmed Duane Lefevre, a marketing instructor at the […]
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BU probes teacher’s ad seeking grading help
Boston University is investigating one of its lecturers who placed an ad on Craiglist looking for someone to help grade his students’ papers. The situation involving Duane Lefevre was brought […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Politics
A way out of gridlock
with unemployment too high, economic growth too low, and the gap between the rich and poor widening, the American Dream is hurting. Adding to the gloom is the polarization in […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Health Care
97.4
the bay state economy expanded by more than 10 percent last decade—8 percent growth on a per capita basis after accounting for inflation. It’s not the Massachusetts Miracle, but given […]
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Left behind
EACH SPRING, THE Boston Globe salutes the city’s valedictorians by publishing photographs of the top-achieving student in each of Boston’s 40 public high schools and describing their college plans. Many of […]
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Higher ed cheerleader
The University of Massachusetts matters. It matters for a lot of reasons and to a lot of people—parents, students, lawmakers, government officials, and taxpayers with no connections except that their […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Scholarships that keep students in the high school race
High school graduations are around the corner, and that means education officials are preparing thousands of scholarships to award to graduates. They are like volunteers at the famed Boston Marathon […]
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Field of dreams
The University of Massachusetts football program is looking to run with the big dogs, but the move to Division I-A comes with financial risks.Administration and athletic officials from the flagship […]
Posted inEducation, State House News Service
The little college that could
WILKELSON GEDEON HAD his heart set on majoring in engineering at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. But the Arlington native, a self-declared procrastinator, missed the application deadline. After […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Opinion
Job action
january 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of MassINC’s New Skills for a New Economy report. The report’s main finding that 1.1 million workers in Massachusetts—a third of the state’s workforce […]
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Radio Boston focuses on Title IX cover story
CommonWealth magazine senior investigative reporter Jack Sullivan today joined documentary film maker and former Olympic athlete Mary Mazzio and UMass Lowell athletic director Dana Skinner on WBUR’s Radio Boston. The […]
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Online teaching
“Although scads of red are always stomach-dropping, I’m really going to learn a lot from this interaction.”I’ve taught writing, off and on, for more than 10 years, and received plenty […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Opinion
Overcoming tough times
Economic crises are social accelerators—things that were abstractly understood as trends are suddenly new and crushing realities. Twenty-five years ago, while the “Massachusetts Miracle” of growth charmed a generation of […]
Posted inEducation, Health Care, Politics
Advice to the Governor: Think smart
Click here for more advice for the governorDuring a painful recession, gubernatorial candidates make too many promises about fixing our near-term problems and too few commitments about the investments needed […]
Posted inEducation
False start
From tiny Roxbury Community College to the University of Massachusetts flagship school in Amherst, women run far behind men in nearly every measure of equal treatment.
Posted inEducation, State House News Service, Transportation
Transit authority’s student pass may hold lessons for MBTA
If Chicago is a guide, the forever cash-strapped MBTA may be sitting on a rich vein of untapped revenue—area college students. The Chicago Transit Authority’s U-Pass is mandatory for the nearly […]
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In defense of a B +
There’s nothing quite like identify fraud to capture the imagination. Cases like “Clark Rockefeller” and now, Adam Wheeler – accused of faking his way into Harvard, and nearly into a […]
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Northeastern program aims to keep students past their first year
on the path to keeping kids in college, Northeastern University has so far met with considerable success — and encountered a few big surprises. Foundation Year, an NU pilot program […]