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Traditional 4-Year Nursing Program Achieves 100% NCLEX-RN® Passing Rate
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) recently announced that Assumption’s Class of 2025 (4-year BSN) nursing students posted a 100% passing rate for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®)—far exceeding the first-time national …
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Dec 03, 2025
America’s Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to Speak at Assumption University
Assumption University today announced that it will host Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on campus this spring. Sponsored by the Center for Civic Friendship as its first major public event, Goodwin will join the Assumption community for Team of Rivals: Leadership Les…
Nov 25, 2025
A Pipeline of Excellence: Assumption’s Organ Scholarship
One of the grandest, oldest, and largest instruments on earth, known as the King of Instruments, can be found in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit—a pipe organ. The organ found in the Chapel, the Gilbert and Anna Chabot Memorial Organ, was built in 1967 and…
Nov 24, 2025
Community, Connections, and Cybersecurity: Nate Avery ’26 Helps Lead Trip to Security Summit
After serving for four years in the United States Army as an infantryman in a Scout Sniper Platoon with the 101st Airborne, Nathan Avery ’26 was searching for a university that would launch his next professional chapter while honoring the experien…In The Media
In The Media
Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves
President Greg Weiner published an opinion piece in the New York Times advocating for universities to look inward to rebuild trust and resist interference.
Worcester Telegram & GazetteSmall liberal arts colleges are struggling, but one in Worcester is bucking the trend
Bill Boffi, VP for Enrollment Management, spoke to the Telegram and Gazette about Assumption's impressive enrollment growth.
The AtlanticThe Trumpian Fantasy of WhiteHouse.gov
Toby Norris, professor of art history, spoke to The Atlantic about President Donald Trump's aesthetic vision and recent executive order on federal architecture.