colleges
Here’s how local colleges changed their applications after the SCOTUS affirmative action ruling
Schools Now barred from asking applicants their race, colleges are still allowed to ask how race shaped students’ lives. They are modifying their applications accordingly. Harvard Yard is pictured in 2020. Harvard is among the local colleges and universities that modified their applications for the 2023-2024 admissions cycle in response to the Supreme Court’s affirmative […]
Chug chug chug? Nah. Student desire for booze-free housing growing at local colleges.
The Boston Globe There is increasing interest in substance-free living at Boston-area colleges in recent years, including at Tufts University. Tufts student Nick Dahlen (middle) and fellow students attended a dedication reception in the new substance-free housing at Simpson House, where he is staying. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff By Hilary Burns, The Boston Globe updated on […]
Sacred Heart University, other colleges snap up unused office space in a slumping market
Business Not that all the students at Sacred Heart University were aware that their classes were in the former home of a multinational conglomerate or were even familiar with the name General Electric. The East and West Building of the former global headquarters of General Electric, which were purchased and transformed into the West Campus […]
These are the Massachusetts schools to make WSJ’s list of top colleges
Schools The rankings, published by The Wall Street Journal, feature four Massachusetts schools in the top 10 and put an emphasis on a school’s value. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was in the top-10 of Wall Street Journal’s 2024 college rankings. Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe Massachusetts is known for attracting some of the brightest college […]