Becker Collegeâs financial woes could make it the next school to close
By Deirdre Fernandes and Laura Krantz Globe Staff,Updated March 2, 2021, 7:47 p.m.
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Then candidate for lieutenant governor Karyn Polito (center) spoke with students at the Mass DiGi Summer Innovation Program at Becker College in Worcester about their mobile application game creation.Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe/File 2014
Becker College, a small private college in Worcester known for its video game design program, is quickly running low on cash and
may not be able to remain open much longer, state higher education regulators warned on Tuesday.
WORCESTER The future of Becker College is shadowed by uncertainty, with state education boards determining that the school s struggling financial standing makes it unlikely to survive another academic year.
The school had been hoping to partner with another college in an attempt to stay afloat. That effort failed, according to Becker President Nancy P. Crimmin. Since the negotiations with a potential affiliation partner ended in January, I, along with cabinet members and appropriate staff, have been working to further analyze the financials, and to develop numerous scenarios regarding our operations. The situation has been dynamic, Crimmin wrote in a letter to the college on Tuesday.
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History of Becker College, dating to 1784 (Leicester Academy)
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The earliest documented presence of female students at the Academy is found in the diaries of student Ruth Henshaw, who would become early 19th-century portrait artist Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom.
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John Barton of Nova Scotia and Horace Dickenson of Montreal become the first-known international students at Leicester Academy.
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First perfect game in Major League Baseball is pitched by J. Lee Richmond of the Worcester Worcesters at the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds, now the Weller Academic Center quad on the Worcester campus.
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Elliott P. Joslin, the first doctor in the United States to specialize in diabetes and the founder of today’s Joslin Diabetes Center, graduates.