Welcome to the New ‘Heard on the Hill’

BY LORRAINE U. MARTINELLE Heard on the Hill—now a blog and no longer a stagnant e-newsletter—is a news outlet for faculty and staff of Nichols College. It’s updated as frequently as campus news happens. Heard on the Hill’s goal is to inform Nichols faculty and staff about news and events happening on and off campus […]

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 Catching Up With: IWL’s Rachel Ferreira

Editor’s Note: Professor Jean Beaupré, former director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Nichols College, has shifted to an advisory role. Rachel Ferreira succeeds her as director. From the IWL blog, Ferreira, who continues to serve as assistant director of enrollment, said: “My sister graduated in 2010 from Nichols College, and I found my […]

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 Nichols Community Gives Back During Holiday Season

BY ASHLEY DALLAIRE ’18 DUDLEY—They don’t call it “the most wonderful time of year” for nothing, especially at Nichols College, where there was no shortage of holiday spirit this season. From coat drives, feeding the homeless, fundraisers to support veterans, and toy drives for local children, Nichols students, faculty, and staff have embraced the spirit […]

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 Nichols IT Staff Present at Northeast Regional Ellucian Colleague User Group Meeting

Kevin Brassard, Jared Hamilton, and Emily Reardon of the Nichols College Office of Information Technology recently held a presentation at the annual Northeast Regional Ellucian Colleague User Group meeting in Leominster, Mass. The focus of the presentation was the integration of the Institutional Research and Reporting function into the Information Technology department, and the opportunities […]

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 Fischer Institute, OIA Hire Brijin Kastberg

Brijin Kastberg has been hired as administrative assistant for the Fischer Institute and Office for International Engagement. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Most recently, Brijin was an advertising executive at Stonebridge Press, which company that publishes over 15 newspapers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. She comes to Nichols […]

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 Taylor Pons ’15 Hired as Career Development Specialist

Taylor Pons ’15 has joined the Career and Professional Development Center team as its career development specialist. She graduated with a BSBA in criminal justice and was an active member of the Nichols community. During her senior year, she decided to switch her career focus to higher education administration and later earned a Master’s of […]

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 New Scholarships Fete Faculty

At the annual Board of Trustees/Board of Advisors lunch in October, Nichols College announced the creation of the Professor Jack Armstrong Endowed Scholarship for Excellence in Accounting, an effort started by regional accounting firms to recognize Armstrong’s contributions to the field in honor of his upcoming retirement from Nichols. In the past year, two other […]

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