Elms College in Chicopee to offer a bachelor's degree in criminal justice

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...er it added a master’s degree in business administration and earlier entered into partnerships with Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical College to offer several bachelor’s degrees on the two campuses. The scie... (Read Full Article)

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College building continues in the Pioneer Valley

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...rtments of Communications, Journalism, Media, Film Studies, and Linguistics, according to UMass. At Holyoke Community College, the state has already approved $7 million in borrowing to buy and renovate the Grynn & Barrett Stu... (Read Full Article)

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Pioneer Valley Culinary Associates building bonds among peers

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Leigh, who's a teaching chef in Holyoke Community College's Culinary Arts program, lives in the Forest Park neighborhood of Springfield. A native of Lake Pla......NY, he first came to the Springfield area in 1985 to join the kitchen staff at the Yankee Pedlar in Holyoke and subsequently worked at or owned several area restaurants, including Madeline's in Windsor, CT a... (Read Full Article)

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Greater Holyoke Chamber names Joseph Peters, president of Universal Plastics, 2012 business person of year

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...e republican file photo | Don TreegerJoseph L. Peters, president of Universal Plastics, sits in the Holyoke company's new 30,000-square-foot addition in 2008. Peters was named business person of the year for......prosperity for communities. He is well deserving of this honor.” Peters, an engineering graduate of Holyoke Community College, received the college’s “Alumnus of the Year” award in 2000, and presently serves as a director of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce   Holyoke Medical Center

Holyoke Community College offers employers conference on retaining and recruiting workers

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Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce

'Training and Workforce Options' is a program offered by Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College

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Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College joined efforts in October to establish Training and Wor... (Read Full Article)

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Kathleen Anderson, director of Holyoke office of Planning and Development, to leave city post and lead Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce

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...l Print File photo | Don TreegerIn a January 2011 file photo, Kathleen G. Anderson, director of the Holyoke Office of Planning and Development, at left, and former mayor Elaine A. Pluta are shown at th......program beginning in 1999. Anderson received an Associates degree in Early Childhood Education from Holyoke Community College, and a BS degree in Elementary Education from Fitchburg State College. Intimately involved in the C... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce   Kathleen G. Anderson

Higher education institutions turn out a well-prepared workforce which helps attract business

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...cy technicians, a position for which training is offered at schools like Springfield Technical and Holyoke community colleges. These companies expressing interest in Western Massachusetts want to know “is t......300-square-foot center in Whately for student internships, re´search, lectures and community events Holyoke Community College: •: $785,000, three-year grant from U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   American International College   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College

Momentum Building

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... to the college, such as T.W.O., the workforce-training initiative undertaken in collaboration with Holyoke Community College, and the MassGreen Initiative, a program designed to train people for jobs in green-energy business... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College

Holyoke Community College plans to purchase Grynn & Barrett building for health services programs

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...nted to emphasize the company is thriving and is seeking a new, smaller headquarters, preferably in Holyoke. “Business is actually growing,” he said. “We had the opportunity to sell the building to Holyoke Community College. They’re close and they need the space. ... It works out for both of us,” he said. Faced with a gro... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   Holyoke Community College   Massachusetts Development Finance Agency

City2City

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...among the participants on the trip.” Erica Broman, vice president for Institutional Development at Holyoke Community College, said one intangible that Springfield needs and that Grand Rapids already enjoys is the power of m......nd a feeling of momentum,” she told BusinessWest. “I have spent a good part of my career working in Holyoke, another community that has certainly seen its fair share of hard knocks. A few years back ... (Read Full Article)

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United Way of Pioneer Valley looks at financial literacy

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... PhotoSeptember 30, 2010 - Dora D. Robinson, president and CEO of the United Way of Pioneer Valley. HOLYOKE – Hampden County has 52,000 residents who don’t use traditional banks or credit unions and instead ......e report, prepared by The Midas Collaborative in Allston, this week during a symposium conducted at Holyoke Community College on enhancing financial stability in Hampden County. “At the end of the day, its about common-sense ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield   Holyoke

Breaking Down the Report Card

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...leges are successfully training and retraining thousands of individuals. Bill Messner, president of Holyoke Community College, agreed, and took exception to some of the report’s primary recommendations, including a centraliza......stern Massachusetts,” said Pura. “I thought that the wonderful work that’s going on in Springfield, Holyoke, the Berkshires, and here in Franklin County was not spoken to. That fact is that community college... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Greenfield Community College

Editorial: Massachusetts' community colleges have a critical mission

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...me and time again that what’s true for Greater Boston is not always true for Western Massachusetts. Holyoke Community College President William F. Messner noted that community colleges in Massachusetts recently worked collabo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

Holyoke Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center completes first stage of construction

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...being constructed at the site of the former Mastex Industries on Bigelow Street, will be finished. Holyoke Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center completes first stage of construction Published: Tuesday, N......re close Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print The Republican | John Suchocki11.29.2011 | HOLYOKE - At the "topping out" ceremony at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Ironw... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College

Center of Attention

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...ducation programs and a childcare facility — but it made sense on many levels. So much so, that the Holyoke Transportation Center was able to withstand myriad challenges, many of them capable of scuttling th...... the Commonwealth, the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, the Federal Transportation Administration, Holyoke Community College, and other entities — to say that this project just wasn’t doable. “Every time we were faced with a... (Read Full Article)

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Stable Condition

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...out need a bachelor’s degree just to be looked at.” However, through a partnership between Elms and Holyoke Community College, these students can complete their bachelor’s degrees in less than two years through a Saturday pro... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   American International College   Holyoke Community College   Springfield College

Care Center in Holyoke receives National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the White House

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...ivera, who is working on her GED, Anne Teschner, executive director, and Tashia Davis, a student at Holyoke Community College, will represent The Care Center of Holyoke when the organization receives a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from first lady M... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   Greenfield Community College

Holyoke Community College focuses on computer literacy with the new Thomas Gill III Community Technology Center

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...d state grants, the college was able to launch the new Thomas Gill III Community Technology Center. Holyoke Community College focuses on computer literacy with the new Thomas Gill III Community Technology Center Published: We....... GordonHolyoke Community College President William F. Messner hosted a ceremony on Sept. 21 at the Holyoke Transportation Center on Maple Street to mark the official grand opening of the offices of Five Col... (Read Full Article)

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Navy lab may boost local businesses

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Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Holyoke   Allan W. Blair

“Partnering and R&D with Department of Defense Laboratories”

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Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Holyoke   Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts

Editorial: 'TWO' is better than one for workforce training

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... than one.” And when the problem is workforce training, Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Community College believe two schools are better than one. Putting that belief into action, the colleges recently com... (Read Full Article)

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Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Communtiy College join forces for worker training | masslive.com

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SPRINGFIELD – Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Community College have combined their corporate training programs in the hopes that more companies use them to build ......e companies use them to build a better work force. Springfield Technical Community College and Holyoke Communtiy College join forces for worker training Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 6:01 PM Jim ... (Read Full Article)

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UMass receives $2.5 grant to help train health care workers in Holyoke, Springfield

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...alth Center, Brightwood Health Center, North End Community Coalition, all in Springfield along with Holyoke Community College and the Holyoke Health Center. (Read Full Article)

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