Wall Street Journal • 16th December 2014

Vatican Report Praises Work of America’s Nuns

“The report on the Apostolic Visitation achieves a proper balance of acknowledging the important contributions that women religious have made to the Church in the U.S. while at the same time recognizing that their future presence is at risk of survival,” said Francesco Cesareo, president of Assumption College in Massachusetts.

Community Benefits Report • 3rd November 2014

Assumption College Community Benefits Report 2013-2014

Lorraine U. Martinelle contributed content, photography, and editing to this annual report published by the Assumption College Office of Communications.

Telegram & Gazette • 21st October 2014

Former Assumption student held without bail in bomb threat

The email was sent to Lorraine U. Martinelle, director of media relations at Assumption College, the sergeant testified.

masslive.com • 15th October 2014

Assumption College evacuated due to bomb threat, Wednesday classes canceled

WORCESTER — City and campus police are investigating a bomb threat at Assumption College, and as of midnight Tuesday students were being evacuated and bused to WPI, according to the college's website. The school received an email indicating that there might be a bomb on the Worcester campus at around 11:10 p.m. Tuesday night, according its website. College administrators sent an email and text to students alerting them to the threat and encouraged them to be watchful and ...

WBZ | CBS BOSTON • 15th October 2014

Assumption College Evacuated After Bomb Threat

WORCESTER (CBS) – Assumption College was evacuated late Tuesday night because of a bomb threat. The threat was emailed to a school employee and authorities were notified. The entire campus was cleared out, while investigators spent the night searching the college room-by-room. Students who had no place to stay were sent to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for the night.

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE • 19th September 2014

Restored Stained-glass Windows from Former Assumption Prep Campus Dedicated

On Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014, Assumption College dedicated four additional stained-glass windows that were once part of the College and Preparatory School’s Greendale campus chapel, which was damaged 61 years ago by a tornado. They join three other stained-glass windows—one of which is called “The Tornado Window,” in remembrance of the three Assumption community members who perished in the June 9, 1953, storm—that were dedicated in June 2013.

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE • 24th July 2014

Fulbright Scholarship Awarded to Assumption Alumna

Assumption College alumna Katherine Vachawski ’14 of Coventry, R.I., has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship. Vachawski will conduct research in Lithuania during the 2014-2015 academic year on how and whether the shared experience of Catholicism works to integrate the Polish community in Vilnius, Lithuania. “Katherine Vachawski represents the best of an Assumption College education and embodies the finest qualities of a Fulbright Scholar,” said Assumption Colle

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE • 22nd July 2014

E.U.-based Companies Benefit from Assumption College MBA Students’ Expertise | Assumption College

Eight Assumption College MBA students traveled to Poland for three weeks recently to work with business owners, helping them to develop strategic business plans—and, in doing so, gaining valuable insight into the European Union business world. The collaboration was part of the College’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) international component, “Doing Business in a Foreign Country.” This is the third consecutive year that Assumption students applied business skills and theories learned in

NECN • 28th February 2014

Assumption College Ties to the Kennedy Family

(NECN: Siobhan Connolly, Worcester, Mass.) – On Friday, the fiftieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. remembered their close relationship with him. In 1953, a tornado destroyed the original Assumption campus. At the time, JFK was a senator and visited the college. “I don’t have photographs of his visit at that time because, well, you can imagine, it was chaos on that campus,” said an Assumption priest.

Wall Street Journal • 24th February 2014

Pope Francis Sets Up New Body in Finance Overhaul

“This will greatly assist the Holy See in improving budgetary management and adopting modern-day practices that will be more easily monitored and understood," said Francesco Cesareo, president of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.

Worcester Business Journal • 21st February 2014

Assumption announces 4-year tuition rate freeze

Assumption College has unveiled a new plan aimed at cutting costs for students and their families. On Sunday, President Francesco C. Cesareo unveiled Assumption Assurance, which will freeze tuition rates for incoming freshmen as well as current freshmen and sophomores for four years at the 2014-15 levels.

The Boston Globe • 19th February 2014

Assumption College launches tuition freeze program

(AP) Assumption College in Worcester is promising not to raise tuition for next fall’s incoming freshmen during their four years at the school. The Assumption Assurance program was announced Sunday by the college’s president, Francesco Cesareo.

The Berkshire Eagle • 18th February 2014

Assumption College launches tuition freeze program

WORCESTER (AP) - Assumption College in Worcester is promising not to raise tuition for next fall's incoming freshmen during their four years at the school. The Assumption Assurance program was announced Sunday by college President Francesco Cesareo.

masslive.com • 17th February 2014

Assumption College in Worcester freezes tuition for incoming students, freshmen, sophomores

Assumption College plans to make tuition less of an unknown for its students. The college announced Sunday it will freeze tuition for next year's incoming freshmen, along with current freshmen and sophomores. The Assumption Assurance program was announced Sunday morning by college President Francesco C. Cesareo.

Wall Street Journal • 26th November 2013

Pope Francis Criticizes Economic Inequality in Mission Manifesto

The pope is critical of any structures that lead to indifference toward the other or that marginalizes individuals, since this only serves to inhibit human advancement and the promotion of human life," said Francesco Cesareo, president of Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.

Boston Herald • 26th October 2013

Throngs expected to mourn slain teacher

Large crowds of mourners are expected at the calling hours and funeral for Colleen Ritzer, the beloved 24-year-old Danvers High School math teacher who cops say was murdered by a freshman student she was tutoring after school this week. Calling hours will be 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the 500-capacity St. Augustine Church in her native Andover, the Archdiocese of Boston announced yesterday. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday.

NBC Today Show • 24th October 2013

Friends: Slain Mass. teacher 'made everyone's life better'

Friends of a Massachusetts math teacher found murdered early Wednesday remember Colleen Ritzer, 24, as caring and reflective. She always wanted to be a teacher. Danvers High School freshman Phillip Chism, 14, will be tried as an adult for Ritzer’s murder. Her body was found just after midnight in the woods behind the high school. Ritzer’s friends Jennifer Berger, Dan Yanofsky and Meredith Davidson spoke to Savannah Guthrie on TODAY Thursday.

CBS News • 23rd October 2013

Colleen Ritzer, slain Danvers High School teacher, remembered as passionate, inspirational

Assumption College President Francesco Cesareo said in a statement that Ritzer would be missed. "The Assumption community will keep Colleen's family members in its thoughts and prayers during this time of great sorrow and loss," said Cesareo. "We pray that God will give them strength and comfort during these difficult days and commend Colleen to God's loving presence."

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE • 9th October 2013

Assumption College Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple

Congratulations to ProfNet member Lorraine U. Martinelle, director of media relations at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. who was featured in Times Square as part of our Facebook promotion! Thanks to ProfNet, Martinelle was able to get Assumption College history professor Carl Keyes quoted in a Los Angeles Times article titled “Who really won the War of 1812?”

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE • 11th May 2013

Richard DesLauriers ’82 Delivers Keynote Address to 605 Graduates at Assumption's 96th Commencement | Assumption College

In his Commencement address on May 11 to the 605 students graduating from Assumption College, Richard DesLauriers ’82, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Boston Field Division, said that his own Assumption education furnished him with skills that have helped him become the leader he is today.