Spring 2019

Feature Stories, Spring 2019

Unifying Our Global Connections

Unifying Our Global Connections

Assumption continues to strengthen its commitment to students’ understanding of the wider world in which they live, with its new global studies center. The program helps students understand how countries across the globe are linked together ecologically, economically, geographically, and politically. Students are closed linked now with the new Center.

Feature Stories, Spring 2019

Justin Auguste ’20 (LEFT) and Alex Richardson ’19 are two of Assumption's The BASE scholars.

Partners in Scholarship

Assumption is collaborating with a variety of generous partners to put college within reach for many families. Alex Richardson, a “first generation American” of immigrant parents never counted on college; his initial plan was to go straight to the police academy shortly after high school, but summer baseball changed him.

Campus News, Spring 2019

Coach Laska holding the plaque dedicating the Laska Gymnasium in his honor in 1975.

Assumption Mourns Loss of Andy Laska

As the Assumption community mourns the loss of Andy Laska, longtime Men’s Basketball coach, athletic director, and namesake od the institution’s gymnasium, his former players, friends, teammates, and colleagues remember a person whose impact on many lives will live on. Laska passed away on February 2.

Campus News, Spring 2019

Assumption students and Special Olympics athletes celebrate the end of the inaugural Unified Sports soccer league last fall.

“Unifying” Assumption Students and Special Olympics Athletes

Last fall, Assumption became the first collegiate partner in Massachusetts to provide an opportunity for students and Special Olympic athletes from the Greater Worcester area to compete in an intramural Unified Sports soccer league. Unified Sports united Special Olympics athletes and students as teammates for training and competition.