BOSTON - Vowing to preserve the university's affordability mission while continuing to pursue excellence, ¾«¶«´«Ã½ President Marty Meehan outlined five areas of focus to ensure a…, Heather MacLean, of Danvers, Mass., a graduate student at UMass Amherst , who coped with the stress of having to earn money to feed her younger siblings by focusing on her studies and running track and cross country…, Evangelia Murray, of Springfield, Mass., a UMass Medical School student whose first exposure to medicine was in the Springfield hospital kitchen where her parents worked. She was inspired to become a doctor by what…, Heaven Reda, , of Boston, an Eritrean refugee who worked overnights and helped her mother through cancer treatments during her time at UMass Boston . With a Beacon Student Success fellowship, she was able to…
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MEDIA ADVISORY BOSTON - The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ President's Office and the Boston Business Journal will host a panel discussion on how business and higher education can work together to…
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MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Jeff Cournoyer, 978-935-8521, jcournoyer@umassp.edu BOSTON - ¾«¶«´«Ã½ President Marty Meehan and the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ Foundation will host the…
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BOSTON -- ¾«¶«´«Ã½ President Marty Meehan and the chancellors of the five UMass campuses today issued a statement calling on Congress to find a permanent legislative solution to…, UMass leadership statement, : "On behalf of the five-campus, 75,000-student ¾«¶«´«Ã½ system, we call on Congress to pass bipartisan legislation that protects the 'Dreamers' so that they may remain in the…
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BOSTON -- ¾«¶«´«Ã½ President Marty Meehan and the chancellors of the five UMass campuses today issued a statement opposing provisions of the federal "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" that…
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BOSTON -- Don Kilburn, an online learning expert with nearly three decades of experience developing innovative education solutions, has been named chief executive officer of UMassOnline. Kilburn, the…
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BOSTON - Calling it one of the most important assignments of their respective tenures, UMass Board of Trustees Chairman Robert J. Manning and UMass President Martin T. Meehan today jointly announced…
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BOSTON -- The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ and the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) today announced the creation of the Cybersecurity Education and Training Consortium (CETC), a joint initiative…, About the ¾«¶«´«Ã½, The ¾«¶«´«Ã½ is a five-campus public research university system renowned for the quality of its academic programs, the scope and excellence of its research, and the strength of its…, About the Advanced Cyber Security Center, The Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC), organized and supported by Mass Insight Global Partnerships, is a non-profit and cross-sector regional collaborative that is focused on building a stronger…
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BOSTON - For the second consecutive year, the ¾«¶«´«Ã½ was one of the only public university systems in the nation to have all of its undergraduate campuses ranked as National…
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On behalf of the five-campus ¾«¶«´«Ã½ system comprising 100,000 students, faculty and staff, we stand in solidarity with Dreamers in opposing the Administration's decision to…
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