Nichols College News

SHUTTLE provides a new perspective on the current higher ed economic landscape. Faced with loss of jobs, and tapped out of collateral to secure sub-prime mortgages, the American middle class is now scrambling to avoid defaulting on their student tuition payment schedule.

Before yesterday's announcement of a drop in the state's unemployment rate and fewer lost jobs in October, an official with a large professional staffing firm had an inkling things were improving.

Hip-Hop Theater Festival uses a variety of theatrical forms, including theater, dance, spoken word and live music, to address the issues relevant to the hip-hop generation.

With more expensive Christmas shopping around the corner, spending money on Halloween may be a tough sell to people with scarily tight wallets this year.

Eating meetings That piece of spinach on your tooth could make the difference between landing the job of your dreams after graduation and joining the legion of the unemployed.

Commuter care As a member of Nichols College class of 1966 as a commuter and as someone who also earned his MBA at Nichols in 1973 while commuting to school, Gerald Fels wants to make sure others have the same opportunity.

Alexandria Hallam of Assonet has been elected president of the class of 2011 at Nichols College.

Seven-year-old Chase Monro and his mother, Maria, both from Shrewsbury were among winners of a 'Meet Jacoby' contest sponsored by a sports drink company, owater, and Stop & Shop.

All the furor over health care, Sen. Ted Kennedy's replacement and other political issues converged rather quietly Wednesday in a lecture hall at Nichols College.

Hans Despain is a professor of economics at Nichols College in Dudley. September 13, 2009 12:00 AM President Barack Obama's education policy, as a continuation of the Bush administration's failed education policy, will not help New Bedford public schools.

To learn how to read as a little girl, Amy Gempp relied on recorded books. She donned headphones, painstakingly matched the spoken words to those on the page and forced her eyes to move from left to right.

Career highlights: I am the business development manager for Southbridge Credit Union.

A tuition reimbursement program can be a good way for employers to attract and retain employees, but when it seems like employers are busy firing employees, it also seems reasonable that those programs, or at least parts of them, might suffer the same fate.

I have known Dan Grabauskas of Auburn since the 1980s when he was assisting the late Bob Fischer running the highly successful Institute for American Values at Nichols College.

Student loan situation -- solved! CBS6's Dori Marlin reported this week on Kevin Pittz of Delmar, who's going into his senior year of college.

Student loan situation -- solved! CBS6's Dori Marlin reported this week on Kevin Pittz of Delmar, who's going into his senior year of college.

Forced to repay a student loan early -- so the lender can get its money back sooner? That's what a local family thinks might be happening, after their son's lender made a bizarre request.

I consider professional career preparation and its ability to realize a return on educational investment an essential service to college students and their parents and an important learning outcome.

I consider professional career preparation and its ability to realize a return on educational investment an essential service to college students and their parents and an important learning outcome.

Melanie Andruszkiewicz and Meredith Driscoll were named to the president's list for the spring semester at Bentley University in Waltham.