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While none of the area schools provided a bailout to Becker, they did step up to find homes for key programs, with the biggest move from Clark University in Worcester.

WORCESTER — Clark University plans to continue using parts of Becker College’s Worcester campus as it takes over the closing institutions video game programs next year. Clark President David Fithian said Clark intends to lease both Becker’s Colleen C. Barrett Center at 80 Williams St. and Weller Academic Center at 61 Sever St. The university may also lease a residence hall in the area, depending on how many students enroll in the program next year. The arrangement will allow students wh...

Just days after Clark University in Worcester announced it would establish the Becker School of Design & Technology, aimed at absorbing a portion of programming at Becker College, which is closing after the spring semester, Clark has received $250,000 in seed funding for the initiative.  The funding was provided by several Worcester-based foundations, including The Fuller Foundation, according to an announcement from the school. Clark did not detail other organizations involved in providing th...

Telegram & Gazette WORCESTER — Becker College, whose origins date to the late 1700s, will close at the end of the academic year. The school last month made it clear that its future was in doubt, owing to financial struggles caused in large part by the pandemic. On Monday, Christine Cassidy, chairwoman of the Board of Trustees, confirmed what  students — and neighbors of its campuses in Worcester and Leicester — had hoped to avoid. In a post on the Becker College website, she wrote: "It...

Then & Now: 44 Elm St., Worcester With World War II underway, Becker School of Business Administration was faced with a depleted student body. Like many colleges, with a good percentage of its students leaving for the military, staying afloat was a struggle. Becker began to consolidate. One of its bigger buildings, on Front Street in downtown, was suddenly quiet, near empty. School officials figured the most efficient option was to consolidate. In 1942, the school bought the Washburn Estate ...

With a deep breath, he launched his usual introduction, “Hi! My name is Andrew and ...” “Oh, wait!” exclaimed the woman at Pear Park Elementary School’s office, “I have to get more people to listen to this!” Then she took off. A few beats later she was back, and 8-year-old Andrew Thomas was able to continue and present the smiling assembly with the multicultural crayons and markers he had brought. Then many of the students asked for his autograph. No one had d...