Regional Director Named For Small Business Development Center

WORCESTER, MA - From Clark University: Richard S. Cheney has been appointed Regional Director of the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Clark University.

Cheney recently served as the director of operations of the Graduate School of Business at Bryant University and as associate director of Continuing Education and Community Engagement at Central Connecticut State University.

Cheney held various roles of increasing responsibility at the Connecticut Small Business Development Center (CSBDC) at the University of Connecticut School of Business, serving most recently as interim state director. The CSBDC provides customized advising, education and network resources to entrepreneurs and small businesses in Connecticut.

Cheney completed his undergraduate studies at Hobart College in Geneva, New York, and earned his MBA from the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network is a partnership program with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Massachusetts Office of Business Development. The SBDC at Clark provides free and confidential one-to-one management advice and technical assistance to prospective and existing small businesses in Central Massachusetts.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university addressing natural, social and human imperatives from local to global scales. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is a transformative force in higher education, established within a diverse and welcoming community. Clark puts education into action by combining a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to complex challenges in the natural sciences, psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge Convention. Change Our World.

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