Posts Tagged ‘Massachusetts’

Conference on Immigrants as “Jet Fuel” for Jobs in Mass.

by Christine Cassis

November 12, 2010

The Malden, Mass.-based Immigrant Learning Center Inc. (ILC) and Babson College will collaborate on a statewide conference for immigrant entrepreneurship to be hosted at Babson's Executive Conference Center in Wellesley, Mass. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The ILC says immigrants are "jet fuel" for entrepreneurship in Massachusetts, from neighborhood revitalization to ...

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Coming Into Focus: A New Vision for Public Higher Education in Massachusetts

by Richard M. Freeland

November 3, 2010

This past September as thousands of college students moved into their dorms, the Boston Globe ran a front-page story about UMass Amherst. The theme of that story was familiar to anyone who has worked in public higher education in Massachusetts: The university community has high aspirations, but those hopes and plans have been consistently thwarted ...

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