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Clark University submitted detailed plans to the City of Worcester for the college's four-story media arts, computing, and design academic building to be located on Woodland Street.
Three days after announcing the acquisition of a seven-acre lot on Park Avenue, Clark University in Worcester announced on Wednesday it is working to secure $100 million in financing to fund a number of facility upgrades and new projects.
For Becker College class of 2020 and 2021 students who had their graduation ceremony Saturday, the event was both celebratory and bittersweet.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute will take over the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute after Becker College, MassDiGI's host, closes following the end of the spring semester. WPI previously offered to host the video game center when Becker announced in late March it would close its doors because of financial difficulties. That was made official in an announcement at the center on Monday. Timothy Loew, the MassDiGI founder and executive director, called the institute and WPI a perfect match. Like Becker, WPI, located only a few blocks away, has an internationally renown video game design pro...
With 36 Becker College buildings, Worcester neighborhood faces uncertain future WORCESTER — As Becker College's impending closure looms over the Elm Park neighborhood and Worcester, nearby property owners and city officials hope that the college's property is taken over by responsible owners. "Each campus is an economic engine in and of itself," Timothy P. Murray, Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO, said, "The loss of Becker both in the Highland Street, Elm Park neighborhood and Leicester is a blow to both the neighborhood and regional economy. The disposition of a...