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Bolstered by grassroots organizing, human service nonprofits and other concerned citizens, city leadership and stakeholders are engaging residents in conversations about an array of deep-seeded inequities, many centered around and rooted in all of the ways systemic racism is woven into the fabric of everyday life in Central Massachusetts.
In the past year, these conversations have centered around issues like police brutality against the city’s Black and Hispanic communities, as well as racial inequities in the city’s schools and on the school committee. These are community-oriented issues: Children typically attend schools closest to them based on district mapping, and neighborhoods of color around the U.S. are demonstrably and statistically over-policed.
Banjo Health of Northborough has named
SHIVA KUMAR as its newest member of the board of advisors. Kumar previously served as chief strategy officer and head of business development for Watson Health at IBM from 2015-2020, worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., and was an associate professor at Yale University’s Physics Department. As senior executive at IBM since 2003, he has pioneered analytics use to improve its revenue and profit performance, and co-founded and led teams at IBM Research to develop the capabilities of IBM Watson Health.
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BARTON
CAROL BARTON, an attorney at Estate Preservation Law Offices in Worcester, has been named National Professional Advisor of the Year for 2020 by the American Cancer Society. Barton was one of two partners of the society’s planned giving team who are honored each year. Her association with the group began in 2008 as a volunteer at Hope Lodge in Worcester, and later grew into national roles, most recently as chair of the n
May 11, 2021
I have donated regularly to both my undergraduate college and my (professional) graduate school. Without financial aid, I could not have attended either. The generosity of those who came before me made my attendance possible. It is important to me that future generations of students have the same opportunities that I was given.
May 11, 2021
No, because I believe that my Ivy League alma mater should be teaching students how to think, not what to think!
May 11, 2021
Yes, I have supported my college annually since graduation in 1992 (wait?! did I say 1992..that s almost 30 years). Donating money and designating gifts to funds that support student scholarships/grants is essential to making higher education affordable for the student. Not sure I would have been able to attend if it were not for generous donors before my time on campus.
Clark University in Worcester has named Sebastián Royo as its next provost and vice president of academic affairs, effective July 1, the school announced on Wednesday.
Royo is vice president of international affairs and a professor of political science at Suffolk University in Boston, where he has worked for 23 years. He will succeed Davis Baird, who is retiring from Clark after serving in the role since 2010.
“This is a mission-critical position, particularly at this time when we are setting our course for our future as a university, and we could not have found a more perfect fit both for carrying out the responsibilities of the provost and seizing the unlimited opportunity that lies ahead,” said Clark President David Fithian, in a statement.
The funds are designated for an array of music education programs in and around the school.
Among them are an endowed chair in music, a scholarship for undergraduate students majoring in or planning to major in music, a neighborhood children’s music fund to support activities and programs that promote music education and exposure for children in Worcester’s Main South neighborhood, and an eponymous music concert series for the Clark community.
“She often expressed her gratitude for receiving a financial package that allowed her to attend Clark and sparked a deep and abiding appreciation for the university and its mission,” President Fithian wrote in a statement announcing the gift. “I know you join me in extending gratitude and appreciation to Tina Sweeney, posthumously, for this wonderfully generous gift to Clark, which will have a very positive impact on our students and on youth in our neighborhood.”