Offering a unique three calendar-year doctorate program in pharmacy, the school will welcome its inaugural class this fall in Hartford. It will mark the West Hartford-based Saint Joseph's first ...]]> The Saint Joseph College School of Pharmacy was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Walgreens Diversity Scholarship fund to develop programs to promote diversity at the school.

Offering a unique three calendar-year doctorate program in pharmacy, the school will welcome its inaugural class this fall in Hartford. It will mark the West Hartford-based Saint Joseph's first campus extension into Connecticut’s capital city.

Only 11%  of students pursuing pharmacy degrees are from minority groups. Walgreens—the nation's largest drugstore chain—has donated more than $2 million to support diversity initiatives at U.S. pharmacy schools since 2008.

Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, MCC is the second largest public two-year college in New England, with 21,000 students. The library named for Dobelle is housed in MCC’s F. Bradford Morse Federal Building in the historic mill city.

Dobelle ...]]> Middlesex Community College named the library on its Lowell, Mass. campus, for its second president Evan S. Dobelle.

Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, MCC is the second largest public two-year college in New England, with 21,000 students. The library named for Dobelle is housed in MCC’s F. Bradford Morse Federal Building in the historic mill city.

Dobelle was the mayor of Pittsfield, Mass., Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Management, and U.S. Chief of Protocol under President Jimmy Carter before becoming president of MCC in 1987.

A champion of cities, Dobelle was instrumental in the Bedford, Mass. community college's effort to establish a campus in Lowell.

Dobelle also served as president of four other colleges: City College of San Francisco, Trinity College where he famously recast the college's contribution to the life of Hartford, Conn.,  the University of Hawaii, and Westfield State University, where he presides today.

Dobelle was president of NEBHE from 2004 to 2007 where he prodded the six states to work together on issues from building a creative economy to forging educational exchanges in Asia to boosting college readiness.