WORCESTER — City leaders say there is a lot of confusion and concern about Ebola, particularly its potential impact if a case were to be confirmed locally. They want the community to know the facts.

Central Massachusetts stakeholders are taking a hard look at how to woo more new graduates to stay awhile after they graduate from Worcester-area colleges and universities.

What do Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Newton, Taunton, Quincy, Somerville, Revere, Lynn and Pittsfield all have in common?

Worcester is a city that is constantly changing, especially from a demographic and cultural perspective.

Each year, the city of Worcester and the Worcester Public Schools come together to balance educational and other municipal needs with available funding. While minimum education spending is established by state law, the local debate focuses on the full cost of a large urban school system and the amount by which the city supplements required public school funding.

Worcester has a problem, and it's one we're glad to see: How to build upon the considerable successes the city has enjoyed over the last decade and more?

WORCESTER — The Worcester Regional Research Bureau has found that keeping college graduates in the city remains a problem.

Greater Worcester is home to 12 colleges and universities that graduated 7,500 students in 2014. But for most, their time in Worcester is short lived.

WORCESTER – Keeping students in Worcester after they graduate from the city’s many colleges is a challenge that needs to be addressed on many fronts.

Above, Nic Guerra, who works for the office of U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern, and graduated this year from Assumption College, speaks at a forum at the school about how to keep college students in Worcester after they graduate. Listening are, right to left, Worcester Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tim Murray, Nikki DiOrio of Assumption's Career Development & Internship Center and Patrick Muldoon, chief executive officer of UMass Memorial Medical Center.