When Kamala Harris was sworn in as the country’s first female vice president, the Natick-based women’s clothing company Nic + Zoe celebrated the milestone on Instagram.
Earlier in January, when the Boston Red Sox named Bianca Smith the first Black woman to coach a baseball team in its minor leagues, Nic + Zoe was there on Facebook.
A month earlier, the company was touting Sarah Fuller when she suited up for the Vanderbilt University football team to become the first woman to score in a major college football game.
One of its Pinterest boards, called The Future is Female, is dotted with women anyone might recognize as influential and motivational: Jill Biden, Michelle Obama, Meghan Markle and Oprah.
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Feb. 5, 2021
Framingham State University is proud to announce an historic agreement with the Chile Massachusetts Alliance (ChileMass) to provide an educational program that supports and enhances the linguistic and pedagogic skills of educators in Chile s K-12 schools in spring and fall of 2021.
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ChileMass emerged as a result of the 2011 Agreement known as the Chile-Massachusetts Plan which was initiated by Chile s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CORFO the agency for economic development and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The purpose for establishing the Agreement was for building a bridge of technology and knowledge transfer between Chile and Massachusetts to promote sustainable development and improve the quality of life for people in both countries.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. Berkshire Community College (BCC) and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) are working together as part of a new statewide effort to help teens who are homeless – those classified as unaccompanied homeless youth – enroll in college and earn the degrees prove to help people move beyond levels of poverty. The statewide initiative, piloted at various public community colleges and four year institutions across the Commonwealth, is called the Moving to College program. The application deadline for the Moving to College Scholarship program is March 1, 2021. The application, as well as eligibility requirements, can be found at https://www.doe.mass.edu/sfs/
By Sam Bonacci
Framingham State University will be taking part in a new, national initiative to increase transfer rates from community colleges to four-year colleges for Black, Hispanic, adult and first-generation learners.
The Equity Transfer Initiative will manifest locally in a partnership between FSU and MassBay Community College in Wellesley. The two-year, $27,500 award from ETI will be used to increase transfer and completion for underrepresented populations using transfer pathways. These transfer pathways represent avenues to easily allow students to carry forward their education from a community college to a four-year institution.
“Increasing and improving upon transfer and completion opportunities for underrepresented student populations is critical to supporting their educational goals and career aspirations,” FSU President Javier Cevallos said in a press release.