HIGHER EDUCATION

Students and staff at Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts, celebrated the Mexican tradition of Día de Los Muertos, setting up an alter with photos of loved ones who've died.

Amherst College joined thirty two other liberal arts colleges in an amicus brief in support of the defendants, Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

Over 100 Harvard students plan to travel to Washington this weekend, both to bear witness to the landmark case and to defend the school's race-conscious admissions policies at a very vulnerable moment.

Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, and U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley were in Springfield Tuesday to tout the federal government's efforts to cancel some student debt. But, one thing they didn't talk about was a temporary hold placed on the program by a federal court.

Mount Holyoke College Sociology Professor Patricia Banks is out with a new book titled "Black Culture Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America." Through her research, Banks explores how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America.

Loretta Ross, founder of the reproductive justice movement, will receive $800,000 to spend as she wishes.

Concerned that bad actors would exploit a lack of clarity in the federal student loan forgiveness program, the Massachusetts attorney general is is warning residents against falling for fraud.

The biased beliefs in scientific labor markets was the focus of a study co-authored by a UMass Amherst economist. A sampling of chemistry postdocs illuminated a widespread misunderstanding in the likelihood they would achieve a faculty position and be published in leading science journals.

The long-term Harvard study has followed Romanian children, abandoned as babies, into adulthood.

Sarah Willie-LeBreton will take over Smith's presidency in July of 2023.