President’s Message

Courage, Leadership, Service and Giving Back By President Barry M. Maloney When I look back at the many remarkable individuals who have graduated from Worcester State during our 150-year history, some common themes emerge, and together, they tell the story of who we are as Lancer Nation. It was the Reconstruction Era when our founding […]

For 150 years now, Worcester State University has served as a provider of a well-educated regional workforce. From our earliest incarnation as the Worcester Normal School, we’ve provided experiential learning opportunities. The first Normal School principal, Elias Harlow Russell, helped pioneer an innovative teacher training model that put students into the city’s classrooms as part […]

Dear Alumni and Friends of the University, What an exciting time to be a student-athlete at Worcester State University! During the 2022-2023 seasons, women’s ice hockey, men’s basketball, and men’s soccer won conference titles; men’s ice hockey made it to the conference championship game for the first time in school history; and both women’s basketball […]

Dear Alumni and Friends, The Worcester State University community recently marked the passing of my predecessor, Worcester State’s first and only female president, Janelle Ashley, Ph.D., who served from 2002 to 2011. As we reflect on her many important contributions to the university, I am reminded that not so long ago women faced significant barriers […]