Massachusetts Free Community College Program Begins - Wellesley, MA - State officials kicked off the state's new MassReconnect higher education program at MassBay on Thursday.
Despite a broad potential scope, “MassReconnect” program is expected to start out small, helping around 8,000 students in its first year. But Healey presented it as part of her administration’s broader reinvestment in public higher education, after years of flat or declining state support.
Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll and other officials are scheduled to visit Northern Essex Community College’s Lawrence campus tomorrow to celebrate a new law that grants in-state tuition rates for those undocumented immigrants who have graduated from high school here. Gov. Maura Healey last week signed the current year budget which allows undocumented students who have […]
BOSTON — With a new academic year nearing, community colleges are tentatively moving forward with plans to help students 25 and older attend for free even though the program has
With a new academic year nearing, community colleges are tentatively moving forward with plans to help students 25 and older attend for free even though the program has not yet been approved within this year’s budget that’s stalled in negotiations on Beacon Hill. Community college leaders say the delay in striking a budget deal, which […]