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A costly lesson

By CommonWealth Staff Taxes and Budget Issues, UMass 1 Comment Jun 21, 2017

Mark Twain once famously observed, “Everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” College debt, it seems, is falling into the same category as tuition rates continue to climb with little relief coming from state or federal governments. University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan said it’s likely that tuition and fees at(...)

The Download/ Education

The private college trap

By CommonWealth Staff Education, Higher education, Private College, UMass 0 Comments May 23, 2016

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(...)

Education/ Politics

Chief of Lowell campus gets top UMass job

Meehan agrees to serve as president 10 years

By Andy Metzger Higher Education and Adult Learning, State Government, UMass 1 Comment May 1, 2015

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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Meehan agrees to serve as president 10 years

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