Although the COVID-19 vaccine is not yet widely available, WPI worked with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MassDPH) to obtain 200 doses of vaccine to protect its health staff who provide COVID-facing care, and campus first responders as well as the same types of workers at colleges and universities in the Worcester area.
At the same time, WPI staff worked with staff from three other universities, including Lasell University, and the American College Health Association to set up four vaccination sites across the state. The goal was to help inoculate health service staff and frontline workers from other colleges and universities across Massachusetts in order to help them protect their own communities from the infectious disease. As a result, approximately 1,000 frontline workers at 45 Massachusetts colleges and universities are being vaccinated.
How not to learn about the American past
In the mid-1940s, Edmund S. Morgan, a mild-mannered young
historian, was teaching at Brown and making a name in the quiet field of early
American studies. Having published a slim, well-received collection of essays
on the New England Puritans, he might have seemed the very model of the
unassuming scholar at the outset of a modest career, satisfied to refine the
work of great forebears in a narrow field. That wasn’t Edmund Morgan. The
Second World War was over. The United States was developing an energetic
vision, which would come to fruition in 1960 with the election of John F.
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MetroWest leaders see sense of optimism with Biden-Harris administration
Experts who spoke with the Daily News believe the Biden/Harris team will champion policies that will benefit local residents.
The harmful effects of the coronavirus pandemic placed a severe strain on public-health resources, caused massive unemployment and highlighted ingrained inequities in communities of color.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have plans to address these pressing problems. But will they work? And what impact will they have in MetroWest?
The Daily News posed these questions to local experts in the areas of public health, the economy and social justice.
Massachusetts Colleges Offer Scholarships to Homeless Teens
A new government-funded scholarship program will provide dorm beds, meal plans and case management to homeless teens who enroll at Framingham State University or Massachusetts Bay Community College. by Zane Razzaq, MetroWest Daily News / January 11, 2021 Shutterstock
(TNS) A new government-funded scholarship program will provide dorm beds, meal plans and case management to homeless teens who enroll at
Framingham State University or
Massachusetts Bay Community College.
Set to begin next fall, the Moving to College pilot is a continuation of another state effort, the Massachusetts Student Housing Security Pilot, launched in 2018. The difference between the programs is school officials will target homeless students who have just graduated high school, as opposed to those who ve been in college for several years.
How do you teach insurrection? MetroWest educators help students make sense of Capitol chaos
Before launching his government class in the wake of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, St. Mark s School teacher David Lyons noted he was flying fairly blind on this alongside other educators. No one s ever had to teach a class after Capitol Hill has been invaded in the case of insurrection before, said Lyons, a veteran history teacher at the Southborough private preparatory school.
On Wednesday, a shocked nation watched on Twitter and TV as a pro-Trump mob battled police, broke into the U.S. Capitol, and sent members of Congress fleeing as lawmakers were counting Electoral College votes to confirm the presidential victory of Democrat Joe Biden.