Bay Path University blazes trail to fit workplace, women’s needs
Started as a secretarial school more than a century ago, Bay Path University is now in the vanguard of efforts to speed up higher education’s response time to the ever-changing workplace. Much of Bay Path’s evolution from a four-year-college with three satellite campuses and total enrollment of 3,298 began in 1994 when Carol A. Leary became the institution’s fifth president. “You can never rest,” Leary said in a recent interview at the school’s flagship campus in Longmeadow. “That’s an important tenet we’ve always had.”