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 science building sho... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield   Chicopee

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......ng was originally constructed in 1964 at a cost of $748,600 and named West Building. Last summer, Springfield College completed $5 million in repairs to tornado-damaged buildings. Four buildings that were hit... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   University of Massachusetts   Holyoke Community College   Springfield College

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 Placid, 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 o... (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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...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 ...... director of Helping Hands for Honduras. He is an ordained deacon for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield and active in St. Stanislaus Basilica in Chicopee. Peters and his wife, Janice, are the parents ... (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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'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 Workforce Options, ... (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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...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...... as vice-president of the Massachusetts Economic Development Council, and a director of the Greater Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau and CareerPoint. Founded in 1890, the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Com... (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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...en training workers in the fields of precision machining, healthcare and early childhood education. Springfield Technical Community College is taking the lead in training workers in green technologies through th......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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One of the main marketing taglines for the Scibelli Enterprise Center at Springfield Technical Community College is ‘Business Building.” This explains both what the facility is — a fac...... 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

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 momentum and positive thinking, somethi... (Read Full Article)

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United Way of Pioneer Valley looks at financial literacy

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...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 ......fees or they have difficulty establishing proof of residency. Paul F. Bailey, executive director of Springfield Partners for Community Action, said high-cost financial options advertise relentlessly in neigh... (Read Full Article)

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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......fore answering his own question. Ira Rubenzahl Ira Rubenzahl Meanwhile, Ira Rubenzahl, president of Springfield Technical Community College, said that, while many of the report’s conclusions can be debated, its ... (Read Full Article)

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Editorial: Massachusetts' community colleges have a critical mission

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...ble Upon Fark Reddit Share Email Print stcc entrance.jpg File photo | The RepublicanThe entrance to Springfield Technical Community College Western Massachusetts community college presidents have raised some leg......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)

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

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...ut" ceremony at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Ironworkers from local 7 Springfield get ready to set the ceremonial signed beam. HOLYOKE – An all-star cast that included the governor,......and Westfield Vocational High School to work on the construction site to learn new building skills. Holyoke Community College President William F. Messner said his college is also working with the center and starting to deve... (Read Full Article)

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

Stable Condition

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...tancy in the U.S. David Miller, dean of the School of Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Studies at Springfield College, cited data from the same report as he talked optimistically about this sector and its f......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 ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   American International College   Holyoke Community College   Springfield 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......G The Republican | Michael S. GordonPeter A. Picknelly, center, president of Peter Pan Bus Lines in Springfield, attends a ceremony recently at the Holyoke Transportation Center on Maple Street to mark the offic... (Read Full Article)

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

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... invoke the old adage: “Two heads are better 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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...bsite – www.trainingandworkforceoptions.com and phone number, (413) 755-6100. Operating separately, Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College educated a total of about 1,000 employees on behalf of a number of loca... (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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... Square Neighborhood Health 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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Peoples Bank donates $43,000 for scoreboard at proposed new West Springfield High School

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Community colleges in Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield win grants in new Massachusetts competition

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...time in this fiscal year's state budget. Of the 29 public higher education campuses, 18 won grants. Springfield Technical Community College received $144,125; Greenfield Community College, $122,004 and Holyoke Community College, $70,000. Ira H. Rubenzahl, president of Springfield Technical Community College, said the grant will be used to expand an existing program that involve... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College

Richard Freeland's 'Vision Project' aims to get 29 Massachusetts public higher-education campuses moving in same direction

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...hare Email Print STCC garvy.JPG Republican file photoGarvey Hall is the administration building at Springfield Technical Community College. By MARY MOORE Boston Business Journal When Richard Freeland launched t......epublican file photoStudents head for classes on the steps of the Frost Building on the campus of Holyoke Community College. Community colleges are seen as a key part of the Vision Project of having 29 state schools pursing... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Springfield

4 Western Massachusetts students among 29 statewide to be issued 'Who Shine' awards by Board of Higher Education

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...Google Buzz Digg Stumble Upon Fark Share Email Print All 4 winners 51111.jpg Angelina Cavallini, of Springfield, Eric Gregoire, of Ludlow, Ruben Sepulveda, of Holyoke and Jacob Powers, of Montague, clockwise fr......ade the Dean’s List. Powers is transferring to Amherst College. Ruben Sepulveda of Holyoke, 36, is Holyoke Community College’s award winner. The formerly homeless high school dropout has worked full time while taking classes... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Governor Deval L. Patrick   Holyoke Community College   Amherst College

The Class of 2011

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...tball coach; and • A Web-site designer who has also created a recognition program that is inspiring Springfield-based businesses to become more earth-friendly in everything from how they make their products to h......den • Jeffrey Hayden, director of the Kittrredge Center for Business and Workforce Development at Holyoke Community College, which houses a number of workforce-development programs, the Mass Export Center, and WISER, the Wo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Holyoke Community College   Springfield Technical Community College   Western New England University