IN RESPONSE to the recent op-ed written by Juma Crawford and Marisa Meldonian, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) and Roxbury Community College (RCC) would like to offer a few points that accurately display the success of our students and our institutions. The measures included in this particular opinion article are from IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Educational […]
Higher Education and Adult Learning
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We need to blend liberal arts, workplace experience
A LIBERAL ARTS college education has always been viewed as a foundation for a career or for advanced study in a graduate or professional program. The notion has been to give students broad knowledge, and the workplace world would mold the graduate into a professional with the requisite training and experience. That view may be […]
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Dartmouth’s link to today’s college oversight bills
SMALL COLLEGES continue to teeter, some to fall. Their students have suffered. The Legislature has taken note: 60 members have filed “An Act Relative to Education Transparency,” which requires “Massachusetts colleges and universities . . . public and private” to “produce annually a report on their fiscal health and stability.” Failure to produce is punishable […]
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Ex-UMass trustees: Senate provision misguided
IN 1988, in observance of the University of Massachusetts’ 125th anniversary, the board of trustees established a commission with a charge “to examine and make recommendations on the future role of the university in the Commonwealth, its governance, and financing.” The concern in the Commonwealth at the time was that Massachusetts was not responding vigorously […]
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Meehan talks tuition freeze with Spilka
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AFTER ACCUSING SENATE leaders of blindsiding university officials with a budget proposal to freeze tuition and fees next year, UMass President Marty Meehan met with Senate President Karen Spilka in her office Tuesday to discuss how the two sides can move forward. Meehan and Spilka met in the afternoon in her […]
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Senate budget bars UMass tuition, fee increases
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SENATE BUDGET WRITERS are looking to compel the University of Massachusetts to hold the line on student costs for the coming academic year but, in a move UMass officials blasted as “devastating,” did not include the funding level the university said is necessary to support a tuition freeze. UMass President Martin […]
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Pro-Palestinian panel to go on at UMass Amherst
IN A SIGN of the polarized times, it took a judge’s ruling on Thursday to clear the way for a pro-Palestinian panel discussion this weekend at UMass Amherst. Three Jewish students anonymously filed a lawsuit attempting to block the discussion, claiming UMass-Amherst was violating their right to a safe environment by allowing an event that […]
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Time for Tufts soul-searching on Purdue Pharma
AS A FACULTY MEMBER at Tufts University School of Medicine, I, along with colleagues and many of our students, have found it embarrassing to be confronted by news reports on how our medical school and university have been taking money over a number of years from Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the family that owns the company, and […]
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Clark sued again for its handling of sexual misconduct allegations
A lawsuit filed against Clark University in Worcester is thrusting the college into the national legal debate about how charges of sexual harassment should be handled on college campuses. A male freshman, identified in court papers as John Doe, says he was unfairly convicted of sexual exploitation by a panel of university administrators who didn’t […]
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Clark sued again for its handling of sexual misconduct allegations
A LAWSUIT FILED against Clark University in Worcester is thrusting the college into the national legal debate about how charges of sexual harassment should be handled on college campuses. A male freshman, identified in court papers as John Doe, says he was unfairly convicted of sexual exploitation by a panel of university administrators who didn’t […]