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Off the Menu: Greenfield Culinary Institute is training next generation of chefs for free
Getting professional training as a restaurant chef can turn out to be major investment, with tuition and fees at top-tier culinary schools exceeding $50,000 a year. Those fortunate enough to make the cut at Greenfield’s Stone Soup Culinary Institute (SSCI) don’t have to worry about tuition bills, however, since the Institute is free to those attending. It operates as a 100% tuition-free program, thanks to support from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and its Urban Agenda grant program along with contributions from community members and other supporters.
UMass undergrads call for Chancellor Javier Reyes’ resignation; grad speaker Colson Whitehead pulls out in protest
AMHERST — A new chancellor’s decision this week to send police to clear a student protest at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus is bringing both calls for his removal and sympathy from supporters. It also led the university’s commencement speaker, Colson Whitehead, a novelist twice awarded the...
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