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Union attacks on Meehan misleading, misguided

Education/ Opinion

Union attacks on Meehan misleading, misguided

UMass Lowell adjunct faculty should negotiate seriously

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FOR THE BETTER PART of a decade, I had the privilege of working with then-UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan. It was exciting to be a part of a team that initiated a remarkable transformation of UMass Lowell that continues today. The campus has experienced dramatic increases in enrollment, retention, and graduation rates; faculty hiring; research(...)

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Something’s new this year at UMass Boston

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Something’s new this year at UMass Boston

40% of freshman class will be living in dorms

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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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Pioneer: UMass has a spending problem

Education

Pioneer: UMass has a spending problem

University calls report ‘highly misleading,” says bottom line positive

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THE PIONEER INSTITUTE continued its war of words with the University of Massachusetts on Monday, asserting that the five-campus system’s complaints about inadequate state funding are just not true. UMass in the past has pointed to declining state funding as the explanation for its steadily increasing student fees. A week ago, in response to a(...)

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UMass Boston’s Dr. Evil

Education/ Winter 2018

UMass Boston’s Dr. Evil

Interim chancellor acknowledged controversial cuts

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“I AM NOW Dr. Evil,” said Barry Mills after it was reported that he planned to shut down the daycare center at the University of Massachusetts Boston as part of an effort to rein in costs at the campus. Brought in as interim chancellor to right the university’s finances, Mills made the comment in an(...)

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The Download/ Education

The private college trap

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The Globe Magazine over the weekend carried a provocative headline: “Work hard. Go to college. Get ahead…and other bad advice we’re giving low-income students.” The story by Neil Swidey doesn’t quite match the headline, but it nevertheless paints a very troubling portrait of low-income students getting in way over their heads financially at what Swidey(...)

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Chief of Lowell campus gets top UMass job

Education/ Politics

Chief of Lowell campus gets top UMass job

Meehan agrees to serve as president 10 years

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STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AFTER TOUTING HIS FUNDRAISING capabilities and pledging to make diversity a priority, UMass Lowell Chancellor and former Congressman Martin Meehan was chosen by the University of Massachusetts Board Friday to serve as the system’s next president, a choice made about 24 hours after Meehan’s candidacy was publicly disclosed. Surpassing a Harvard(...)

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