The on-again, off-again plan by Lesley University to relocate restaurants from an inside food court to prime street-front real estate is on again and official.
Threshold is the rare program teaching neurodiverse young adults the skills needed to enter the workforce, have social lives and operate independently. Now, upon celebrating its 40th anniversary, Lesley is rolling out Threshold Lifelong Support.
A third vote by faculty members of no confidence in Lesley University president Janet Steinmayer accompanied by tuition hikes is bringing protests back to the Cambridge school, with students, alumni and community members saying they will rally Saturday.
With every student in a dorm a student not competing for housing with other Cambridge residents, it was a key concern for Planning Board members hearing annual town-gown reports from Harvard, MIT and Lesley.
With a new round of layoffs in Lesley University’s restructuring came a new protest Saturday during a Porter Square open house, with current students at the Cambridge school sounding alarms to prospective students.
As Lesley University welcomed prospective students to an open house Sunday, current students and faculty were outside to greet them with a very different message about program shutdowns and teacher layoffs, the result of a restructuring announced Oct. 4.
Four programs will be cut at Lesley University as part of its Better Lesley plan to refocus on core strengths in education, mental health and the arts.
A plan for Lesley University’s languishing University Hall in Porter Square was quietly overturned this summer, and now a statement says the future of at least one of its prominent, long-empty storefronts won’t be known until the spring.