The University of Massachusetts Boston is a public research university in Boston,Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States. While a majority of UMass Boston students are Massachusetts residents,international students and students from other states make up a significant portion of the student body. Founded with a distinct urban mission,UMass Boston has a long history of serving the city of Boston,including numerous partnerships with local community organizations . It is an official member institution of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities and the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research university in Amherst,Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college,it is the flagship and the largest campus in the University of Massachusetts system,as well as the first established. It is also a member of the Five College Consortium,along with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley:Amherst College,Smith College,Mount Holyoke College,and Hampshire College.
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses,a satellite campus in Springfield and also 25 campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts Global.
The University of Massachusetts Lowell is a public research university in Lowell,Massachusetts,with a satellite campus in Haverhill,Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts public university system and has been regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) since 1975. With 1,110 faculty members and over 18,000 students,it is the largest university in the Merrimack Valley and the second-largest public institution in the state. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
Martin Thomas Meehan is an American academic administrator,politician,and attorney. Since July 2015,Meehan has served as the President of the University of Massachusetts after serving as Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell since September 2007.
Dorchester is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km2) in the City of Boston,Massachusetts,United States. Originally,Dorchester was a separate town,founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester,Dorset,England,to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality,Boston's largest neighborhood by far,is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods.
John Frederick Collins was an American lawyer who served as the Mayor of Boston,Massachusetts from 1960 to 1968. Collins was a lawyer who served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1947 to 1955. He and his children caught polio during a 1955 outbreak. He was forced to use a wheelchair and crutches the rest of his life. After partially recovering,he ran for mayor in 1959 as an underdog. He successfully portrayed himself as outside corrupt "machine politics" and was elected.
Robert Laurent Caret is an American academic and the former chancellor of the University System of Maryland. He became chancellor on July 1,2015. Caret,a native of New England,became chancellor of the University System of Maryland after completing presidencies at San Jose State University,Towson University and the University of Massachusetts.
The University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (UMMB) is the marching band for the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for its drum corps style and nationally renowned percussion section. The Minuteman Band is also known for its use of dance routines,vocalists,electronics,and overall showmanship.
Columbia Point,in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston,Massachusetts sits on a peninsula jutting out from the mainland of eastern Dorchester into the bay. Old Harbor Park is on the north side,adjacent to Old Harbor,part of Dorchester Bay. The peninsula is primarily occupied by Harbor Point,the University of Massachusetts Boston,the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate,and a complex at the former Bayside Expo Center,Boston College High School,and the Massachusetts Archives. The Boston Harborwalk follows the entire coastline.
Jane Ellen "Bonnie" Newman from North Hampton,New Hampshire is an American administrator and business executive. A Republican,she worked for Judd Gregg,Ronald Reagan,and George H. W. Bush. Newman was also interim president of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Community College System of New Hampshire. She was announced by the governor of New Hampshire as his selection for eventual appointment to the United States Senator when Gregg was nominated to become United States Secretary of Commerce,but did not take office when the vacancy she was to fill did not materialize.
Jean F. MacCormack is the past president of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate,serving in the role from 2014 to 2017. MacCormack is the former Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,where she led from 1999 to 2012.
Randolph Wilson ("Bill") Bromery was an American educator and geologist,and a former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971–79). While Chancellor,Bromery established the W.E.B. Du Bois Archives at the University of Massachusetts,and was one of the initiators of the Five College Consortium. He was also President of the Geological Society of America,and has made numerous contributions as a geologist and academic. During World War II,he was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen,flying missions in Italy.
Bayside Expo Center was a convention center located in Dorchester,Massachusetts. Originally opened as a shopping mall called Bayside Mall in the 1960s,the mall later failed and the convention center opened in its place. In 2010,it was purchased by the University of Massachusetts Boston after the building went into foreclosure.
James Keith Motley is a leader in higher education and was the eighth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Wendy Wilbur is an American rower who was on the U.S. National Rowing Team between 1997 and 2003.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the ninth permanent and current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston,and is the first Latino to lead a campus in the Massachusetts public university system. He is the former inaugural UCLA Wasserman Dean at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
Marcellette ("Marci") Gaillard-Gay Williams is an American retired academic administrator who served as interim chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst from July 2001 until July 2002. She was the university's eighth chancellor and the first woman to serve in the position.
