by Village 14 | Aug 13, 2019 | Auburndale |
Lasell College in Auburdale is converting to a university, the Boston Globe reports.
“The change of name makes people recognize that the institution has graduate programs who might not have known otherwise. And it probably is done in part hoping that this designation confers prestige,” said Virginia Shapiro, a Boston University political science professor who is working on a history of US higher educations. “Whether that is true is dubious.”
Here’s a video announcement from Lasell…. by Greg Reibman | Jul 10, 2018 | Auburndale |
Lasell College has been featured prominently in two unrelated Globe stories this week and it’s only Tuesday.
In the interest of time (and as sort of a Village 14 experiment) I’m linking to both here.
Residents, college battle over late-night lights on athletic field
Mount Ida president blames closure on Lasell College maneuvers
by Village 14 | Mar 23, 2018 | Newton |
One month after announcing that they were exploring a potential merger, the two Newton-based liberal arts schools said in a brief statement that they would “not move forward with a merger,” the Boston Business Journal reports.