STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A SEARCH COMMITTEE named Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, a dean at the University of California Los Angeles, as its lone finalist Tuesday for the University of Massachusetts Boston chancellorship after months of searching and interviews with 11 potential candidates. The 21-member committee voted unanimously to recommend Suarez-Orozco as the best fit for the […]
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UMass Bayside deal is about a lot more than money
IT’S RARE FOR THOSE OF US in public life to have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting difference for the people we serve. That’s why we are so excited about the transformation just around the corner for UMass Boston as a consequence of the Bayside lease. Much has been made of the extraordinary […]
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Something’s new this year at UMass Boston
NEXT WEEK, as students return to University of Massachusetts Boston, a number of them will do something no one has done in the school’s history: Live on campus. For the first 53 years of its history, UMass Boston students commuted to campus by bus, T, or car. This year that will change. Approximately 1,000 students […]
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Meehan, UMass Boston faculty at war
This story was updated with information indicating the UMass Boston Faculty Council did not make disparaging comments about the three candidates for UMass Boston chancellor. THE FACULTY AT UMASS BOSTON, angered and threatened by the purchase of Mount Ida College in Newton by UMass Amherst, retaliated by scuttling the search for a new chancellor at […]
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Meehan, UMass Boston faculty at war
The faculty at UMass Boston, angered and threatened by the purchase of Mount Ida College in Newton by UMass Amherst, retaliated by scuttling the search for a new chancellor at their own campus. UMass President Marty Meehan announced on Monday that all three finalists for the Boston job had withdrawn their names from consideration after […]