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University of Massachusetts Amherst

January 30, 2023

Not to be confused with Amherst College.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) 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.

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Latin: Universitas Massachusettensis
Former names
Massachusetts Agricultural College (1863–1931)[1]
Massachusetts State College (1931–1947)
MottoEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Latin)
Motto in English
"By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty."
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedApril 29, 1863; 159 years ago (1863-04-29)[2]
Parent institution
University of Massachusetts System
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliations
Five Colleges
Endowment$494 million (2021)[3]
ChancellorKumble Subbaswamy
ProvostTricia Serio[4]
Academic staff
1,543 full-time and 386 part-time (Fall 2021)[5]
Students32,045 (Fall 2021)[5][6][7]
Undergraduates24,231 (Fall 2021)[5]
Postgraduates7,814 (Fall 2021)[5]
Location
Amherst
,
Massachusetts
,
United States

42°23′20″N 72°31′40″W / 42.38889°N 72.52778°W / 42.38889; -72.52778Coordinates: 42°23′20″N 72°31′40″W / 42.38889°N 72.52778°W / 42.38889; -72.52778
CampusLarge Suburb, 1,463 acres (5.92 km2)
NewspaperThe Massachusetts Daily Collegian
ColorsMaroon and white[8]
   
NicknameMinutemen and Minutewomen[9]
Sporting affiliations
MascotSam the Minuteman[10]
Websitewww.umass.edu

It is the largest university in Massachusetts by campus size and largest university by undergraduate enrollment in Massachusetts, second to Boston University in total enrollment due to Boston University's large postgraduate enrollment.[11][a] The university offers academic degrees in 109 undergraduate, 77 master's and 48 doctoral programs. Programs are coordinated in nine schools and colleges.[12] As of Fall 2022, UMass Amherst has an annual enrollment of more than 32,000[5] students, along with approximately 1,900 faculty members.[5] The University of Massachusetts Amherst is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[13] According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent $211 million on research and development in 2018.[14][12]

The university's 21 varsity athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I and are collectively known as the Minutemen and Minutewomen. The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, while playing ice hockey in Hockey East and football as an FBS Independent.

The university's past and present students and faculty include four Nobel Prize laureates,[15] a National Humanities Medal winner,[16] numerous Fulbright,[17] Goldwater, Churchill,[18][19] Truman,[20] and Gates Scholars,[21] Olympic Gold Medalists, a United States Poet Laureate, as well as several Pulitzer Prize recipients and Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Award winners.

History

Foundation and early years

 
Massachusetts Agricultural College as it appeared in 1879, with students and faculty standing in front of Old South College, North College, and the college's first chapel.
 
The University's Centennial Seal
 
Old Chapel constructed in 1884 at the campus

The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in "agricultural, mechanical, and military arts." Accordingly, the university was initially named the Massachusetts Agricultural College, popularly referred to as "Mass Aggie" or "M.A.C." In 1867, the college had yet to admit any students, been through two Presidents, and had still not completed any college buildings. In that year, William S. Clark was appointed President of the college and Professor of Botany. He quickly appointed a faculty, completed the construction plan, and, in the fall of 1867, admitted the first class of approximately 50 students. Clark became the first president to serve longterm after the schools opening and is often regarded the primary founding father of the college.[22] Of the school's founding figures, there are a traditional "founding four"- Clark, Levi Stockbridge, Charles Goessmann, and Henry Goodell, described as "the botanist, the farmer, the chemist, [and] the man of letters."[23][24]

The original buildings consisted of Old South College (a dormitory located on the site of the present South College), North College (a second dormitory once located just south of today's Machmer Hall), the Chemistry Laboratory, also known as College Hall (once located on the present site of Machmer Hall), the Boarding House (a small dining hall located just north of the present Campus Parking Garage), the Botanic Museum (located on the north side of the intersection of Stockbridge Road and Chancellor's Hill Drive) and the Durfee Plant House (located on the site of the new Durfee Conservatory).[25]

Although enrollment was slow during the 1870s, the fledgling college built momentum under the leadership of President Henry Hill Goodell. In the 1880s, Goodell implemented an expansion plan, adding the College Drill Hall in 1883 (the first gymnasium), the Old Chapel Library in 1885 (one of the oldest extant buildings on campus and an important symbol of the University), and the East and West Experiment Stations in 1886 and 1890. The Campus Pond, now the central focus of the University Campus, was created in 1893 by damming a small brook. The early 20th century saw great expansion in terms of enrollment and the scope of the curriculum. The first female student was admitted in 1875 on a part-time basis and the first full-time female student was admitted in 1892. In 1903, Draper Hall was constructed for the dual purpose of a dining hall and female housing. The first female students graduated with the class of 1905. The first dedicated female dormitory, the Abigail Adams House (on the site of today's Lederle Tower) was built in 1920.[26]

 
Panoramic view of campus, 1916; in the foreground at the left is the Apiary Laboratory, Fernald Hall, the Old Chapel, and Clark Hall, in the distance to the right can be seen French Hall and Stockbridge Hall
 
Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher was president when Massachusetts Agricultural College changed its name to Massachusetts State College in 1931[27]

By the start of the 20th century, the college was thriving and quickly expanded its curriculum to include the liberal arts. The Education curriculum was established in 1907. In recognition of the higher enrollment and broader curriculum, the college was renamed Massachusetts State College in 1931.

Following World War II, the G.I. Bill, facilitating financial aid for veterans, led to an explosion of applicants. The college population soared and Presidents Hugh Potter Baker and Ralph Van Meter labored to push through major construction projects in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly with regard to dormitories (now Northeast and Central Residential Areas). Accordingly, the name of the college was changed in 1947 to the University of Massachusetts.

Modern era

 
Welcome sign at the university (west gate)

By the 1970s, the University continued to grow and gave rise to a shuttle bus service on campus as well as many other architectural additions; this included the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center complete with a hotel, office space, fine dining restaurant, campus store, and passageway to the parking garage, the W. E. B. Du Bois Library, and the Fine Arts Center.

Over the course of the next two decades, the John W. Lederle Graduate Research Center and the Conte National Polymer Research Center were built and UMass Amherst emerged as a major research facility. The Robsham Memorial Center for Visitors welcomed thousands of guests to campus after its dedication in 1989. For athletic and other large events, the Mullins Center was opened in 1993, hosting capacity crowds as the Minutemen basketball team ranked at number one for many weeks in the mid-1990s, and reached the Final Four in 1996.

21st century

UMass Amherst entered the 21st century with 19,061 students enrolled.[28] In 2003, for the first time, the Massachusetts State Legislature legally designated UMass Amherst as a Research University and the "flagship campus of the UMass system."[29] The university was named a top producer of Fulbright Award winners in the 2008–2009 academic year.[30] Additionally, in 2010, it was named one of the "Top Colleges and Universities Contributing to Teach For America's 2010 Teaching Corps."[31]

Organization and administration

See also: List of chancellors of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Colleges and schools

 
From the W. E. B. DuBois Library, a northward view. The Lederle Graduate Research Tower can be seen in the background with the Campus Center and Hotel in the foreground.

Since the University of Massachusetts Amherst was founded as the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1863, 25 individuals have been at the helm of the institution.[32] Originally, the chief executive of UMass Amherst was a president. When UMass Boston was founded in 1963, it was initially reckoned as an off-site department of the Amherst campus, and was headed by a chancellor who reported to the president. A 1970 reorganization transferred day-to-day responsibility for UMass Amherst to a chancellor as well, with both chancellors reporting on an equal basis to the president. The title "President of the University of Massachusetts" now refers to the chief executive of the entire five-campus University of Massachusetts system.

The current Chancellor of the Amherst campus is Dr. Kumble R. Subbaswamy.[33] The Chancellor resides in Hillside, the campus residence for chancellors.[34]

There are approximately 1,300 full-time faculty at the university.[12] The university is organized into nine schools and colleges and offers 111 bachelor's degrees, 75 master's degrees, and 47 doctoral degrees.[12]

Students interested in studying outside of a particular major can apply to enroll in the bachelor's degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) program. This is a unique program which allows students to design their own area of study. A BDIC concentration must be interdisciplinary, drawing from at least three fields or disciplines, and it may not duplicate an existing major. Courses can be selected from any department within the university as well as the campuses in the Five College Consortium. Course selection is guided by the students chosen faculty sponsor and a BDIC faculty supervisor. BDIC students are assigned to one of five academic clusters- Arts and Cultural studies; Business and Law; Communication; Education and Human Development; Natural Health, Computer Sciences and Engineering.

Additionally, the university offers two programs designed for adult and continuing education students, known as University Without Walls[35] and Continuing and Professional Education.[36]

Academics

 
Goodell Hall

Rankings and reputation

USNWR graduate school rankings[45]

Business 53
Education 63
Engineering 56

USNWR departmental rankings[45]

Audiology 26
Biological Sciences 54
Chemistry 52
Clinical Psychology 50
Computer Science 20
Earth Sciences 46
English 57
Fine Arts 89
History 44
Mathematics 55
Physics 56
Political Science 56
Psychology 53
Public Affairs 65
Public Health 32
Sociology 30
Speech–Language Pathology 45
Statistics 74

U.S. News & World Report's 2021 edition of America's Best Colleges ranked UMass Amherst tied for 66th on their list of "Best National Universities", and tied for 26th among 141 public universities in the U.S.[46] The undergraduate computer science program tied for 31st among 481 U.S. colleges. UMass Amherst is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.[47]

The Isenberg School of Management's undergraduate business program was ranked by BusinessWeek in 2014 as the 36th best program in the country.[48]

The linguistics program was ranked by QS World University Rankings in 2021 as the 2nd best globally.[49]

The National Research Council ranked computer science at UMass Amherst 18th in quality of PhD education and ranked polymer science 2nd in quality of PhD education and 7th in quality of scholarship among all US materials departments.[citation needed] The Institute for Scientific Information ranked the chemical engineering program 5th, computer Science department 9th and recognized the geosciences department for producing the most cited paper on global warming.[citation needed]

Founded in 1971, the University Without Walls was one of the first adult bachelor's degree completion programs in the country.

The UMass Amherst campus is known for its sustainability. In 2010 the UMass Climate Action Plan (CAP) was approved, which documented the campus' plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. In 2011 UMass Amherst became one of the four colleges to receive a gold star from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. In 2013 UMass Amherst made it onto the Princeton review's Green Honor Roll and in 2014 received its second National Climate Leadership Award. Furthermore, this is one of the only public universities to use the fresh fruits and vegetables in the dining commons from its very own permaculture gardens.[50]

Commonwealth Honors College

 
$182 million new Commonwealth Honors College complex being constructed at the university.[51]
 
The Old Chapel and W.E.B. DuBois Library at UMass Amherst.

Commonwealth Honors College is the honors college at UMass. The honors college provides students the opportunity to intensify their UMass academic curriculum. The requirements of the college are to complete an honors college writing course, a seminar called "Ideas That Changed the World," two honors gen ed courses, an honors seminar called "Topics," and for advanced scholarship honors, several upper-level honors courses, including an honors thesis or project. Membership in the honors college is not required in order to graduate the University with higher Latin honors designations, such as magna or summa cum laude. Commonwealth Honors College provides honors students an additional community of students to interact with outside of their academic department and holds many social and academic events during the school year. In 2013, the University completed the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community (CHCRC) on campus to serve the College, including classrooms, faculty housing, an administration area, and residence areas that houses 1,500 students.[52]

Five College Consortium

UMass Amherst is part of the Five Colleges Consortium, which allows its students to attend classes, borrow books, work with professors, etc., at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges.

All five colleges are located within 10 miles of Amherst center, and are accessible by public bus. The five share an astronomy department and some other undergraduate and graduate departments.

UMass Amherst holds the license for WFCR, the National Public Radio affiliate for Western Massachusetts. In 2014, the station moved its main operations to the Fuller Building on Main Street in Springfield, but retained some offices in Hampshire House on the UMass campus.[53]

Community service

UMass Amherst emphasizes community service as part of its academic programs. The Community Engagement Program (CEP) offers courses that combine classroom learning and community service, and sponsors programs such as the first year IMPACT learning community and the Community Scholars Program. Co-curricular service programs include the Alternative Spring Break, Engineers without Borders, the Legal Studies Civil Rights Clinical Project, the Medical Reserve Corps, Alpha Phi Omega, the Red Cross Club, the Rotaract Club, UCAN Volunteer, and the Veterans and Service Members Association (VSMA).

The White House has named UMass Amherst to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for four consecutive years, in recognition of its commitment to volunteering, service learning, and civic engagement.[54] They have also been named a "Community-Engaged University" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.[55] The Princeton Review included UMass Amherst in its Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement.

Research

Main article: List of research centers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Further information: List of research groups at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

UMass research activities totaled more than $200 million in fiscal year 2014.[12] In 2016 the faculty adopted an open-access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online.[56]

Researchers at the university made several high-profile achievements in recent years. In a bi-national collaboration, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst came together and built Large Millimeter Telescope.[57][58] It was inaugurated in Mexico in 2006 (on top of Sierra Negra).

A team of scientists at UMass led by Vincent Rotello has developed a molecular nose that can detect and identify various proteins. The research appeared in the May 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology, and the team is currently focusing on sensors, which will detect malformed proteins made by cancer cells.[59] Also, UMass Amherst scientists Richard Farris, Todd Emrick and Bryan Coughlin led a research team that developed a synthetic polymer that does not burn. This polymer is a building block of plastic, and the new flame-retardant plastic will not need to have flame-retarding chemicals added to their composition. These chemicals have recently been found in many different areas from homes and offices to fish, and there are environmental and health concerns regarding the additives. The newly developed polymers would not require addition of the potentially hazardous chemicals.[60]

Environmental research UMass Amherst researchers have positioned the campus as a national leader in sustainability.[citation needed]

Economics professor Robert Pollin has influenced the national discussion about how best to stimulate the US economy and promote sustainability. He and colleagues at the Political Economy Research Institute have developed a plan for national recovery that shows, for example, that investing in clean energy (wind power, solar, and biofuels) will create about three times as many good-paying jobs than conventional projects will, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on foreign oil.[citation needed]

Since September 2009, the campus has won more than $36 million in competitive stimulus grants. These include:[citation needed]

  • $7.1 million in grants from the National Science Foundation to approximately 20 separate researchers.
  • $16 million from the Department of Energy to establish an Energy Frontier Research Center on campus to develop highly efficient non-silicon polymer materials for harvesting solar energy.
  • $1.9 million to chemical engineer George Huber to further develop bio-fuels from inedible corn stalks, bark, wood waste, and similar biomass.

Other significant research in environmentally safe technology among UMass Amherst faculty includes:

  • Microbiologist Susan Leschine has raised $25 million to commercialize technology that converts plant waste into ethanol using the Q microbe, discovered in the Quabbin Reservoir just east of the campus.
  • James Manwell, director of the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory, leads testing on large wind-turbine blades at a new federal facility in Boston after helping construct two municipal wind turbines in Hull, Massachusetts.
  • Microbiologist Derek Lovley discovered Geobacter, a tiny biological structure that can clean up groundwater and produce electricity through conductive microbial nanowires.
  • The Northeast Climate Science Center, one of four national offices designated by the Department of the Interior is located at the University of Massachusetts.|

Admissions and enrollment

 
Mather House, the admissions office at the university.

In 2012, the university reported that applications to the school had more than doubled since the Fall of 2003 and increased more than 80% since 2005.[61][62] In 2015, a record high of 40,010 applications were received, with 58% of applicants being accepted, and 1.6% being accepted to the Commonwealth Honors College.

The incoming Class of 2022 had an average high school GPA of 3.90 out of a 4.0 weighted scale, up from an average GPA of 3.83 the year before. The average SAT score of the Class of 2022 was 1294/1600, and on average the students ranked in the top fifth of their high school class. Acceptance to the Commonwealth Honors College program of UMass Amherst is even more selective with an average SAT score of 1409/1600 and an average weighted high school GPA of 4.29.[63]

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[64] Total
White 61% 61
 
Asian 11% 11
 
Hispanic 8% 8
 
Foreign national 7% 7
 
Other[b] 7% 7
 
Black 5% 5
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[c] 20% 20
 
Affluent[d] 80% 80
 

First Year Student Statistics[65]

  2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Applicants 41,612 41,922 40,704 40,010 37,183 35,868 34,326 32,564 30,853 29,452 28,931
Admits 24,911 24,102 24,275 23,308 22,804 22,556 21,470 21,373 20,858 19,703 18,601
% Admitted 59.9 57.5 59.6 58.3 61.3 62.9 62.5 65.6 67.6 66.9 64.3
Enrolled 5,010 4,714 4,643 4,661 4,642 4,621 4,592 4,688 4,469 4,124 4,144
Average SAT 1296 1268 1225 1226 1218 1208 1197 1189 1167 1169 1155
HS GPA 3.90 3.89 3.83 3.83 3.78 3.73 3.66 3.64 3.61 3.60 3.56

This table does not account deferred, transfer applications or other unique situations.

Campus

Main article: Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
See also: Chestnut Ridge Historical Area, East Ridge Historical Area, and Ellis Drive Historical Area

The University's campus is situated on 1,450 acres (Nipmuc land), mainly in the town of Amherst, but also partly in the neighboring town of Hadley. The campus extends about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Campus Center in all directions and may be thought of as a series of concentric rings, with innermost ring harboring academic buildings and research labs, surrounded by a ring of the seven residential areas and two University owned apartment complexes. These include North Apartments, Sylvan, Northeast, Central, Orchard Hill, Southwest, Commonwealth Honors College Residential Complex, as well as the two University owned apartment complexes, North Village and Lincoln Apartments. These are in turn surrounded by a ring of athletic facilities, smaller administration buildings, and parking lots.

The campus has its own Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation facility. The plant, which was dedicated in 2009 after ten years of planning, replaced a coal burning power plant dating back to 1918 and has reduced the campus' greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 75%. In 2011, the CHP was recognized as the cleanest plant of its size in New England and has been recognized for maintaining 80% efficiency over six consecutive quarters. In 2008, the CHP received the Combined Cycle Journal Pacesetter Award for the best Combined Heat and Power plant project in the US that year. The award refers to its innovative design, efficiency, reliability, system redundancy, and environmental benefits. In 2009, the CHP received the Sustainable Campus Leadership Award from the International District Energy Association. The award states it was given "In recognition of exemplary public leadership in advancing energy efficiency and global environmental stewardship through investment in an innovative district energy system." The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented the University of Massachusetts with the 2011 Combined Heat and Power Energy Star Award in an effort to recognize the reduced emissions and increased efficiency of the plant.

 
The W. E. B. Du Bois Library is the world's 2nd tallest library[66] and the tallest university library.[67]

The W.E.B. Du Bois Library is one of two library buildings on campus and the tallest academic research library in the world, standing at 26 stories above ground and 286 feet (90.32 m) tall.[68] Before its construction in the late 1960s, Goodell Hall was the University library, which was built after the library had outgrown its space in the 1885 "Old Chapel" building. Originally known as Goodell Library, the building was named for Henry H. Goodell, who had served as College Librarian, Professor of Modern Languages and English Literature, and eighth President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The Library is well regarded for its innovative architectural design, which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building.[69] It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African-American activist and Massachusetts native W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as being the depository for other important collections, such as the papers of the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte. The library's special collections include works on movements for social change, African American history and culture, labor and industry, literature and the arts, agriculture, and the history of the surrounding region.[70]

 
Stockbridge Hall, Stockbridge School of Agriculture.

The Science and Engineering Library is the other library on campus, and is located in the Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise. UMass is also home to the DEFA Film Library, the only archive and study collection of East German films outside of Europe, and the Shirley Graham Du Bois Library in the New Africa House.

The university has several buildings (constructed in the 1960s and 70s) of importance in the modernist style, including the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center and Hotel designed by Marcel Breuer, the Southwest Residential Area designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr. of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, The Fine Arts Center by Kevin Roche, the W.E.B. Du Bois Library by Edward Durell Stone, and Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium by Gordon Bunshaft. Many of the older dorms and lecture halls are built in a Georgian Revival style such as French Hall, Fernald Hall, Stockbridge Hall and Flint Laboratory.

The campus facilities underwent extensive renovations during the late 1990s. New and newly renovated facilities include student apartment complexes, the Hampshire Dining Commons, a library Learning Commons, a School of Management, an Integrated Science Building, a Nursing Building, a Studio Arts Building, the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation facility, a track facility, and a Recreation Center. Newly completed construction projects on campus include the new Campus Police Station, the George N. Parks Minuteman Marching Band Building, the Life Sciences Laboratories, and the Integrated Learning Center.[71]

 
Arnold House, part of Northeast Residential Area, the oldest residential area at UMass Amherst.

Residential life

Main article: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst residence halls

Residential Life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the largest on-campus housing systems in the United States. Over 14,000 students live in 52 residence halls, while families, staff, and graduate students live in 345 units in two apartment complexes (North Village and Lincoln). The fifty-two residence halls and four undergraduate apartment buildings are grouped into seven separate and very different residential areas: Central, Northeast, Orchard Hill, Southwest, Sylvan, North Apartments, and the recently constructed Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community (CHCRC). Each possesses its own distinctive characteristics, inspired in part by location, in part by architecture, and in part by the different cultural or academic living/learning programs housed within. Each residential area houses classrooms, recreational and social centers, kitchenettes, and cultural centers - in addition to the bedrooms, study areas, laundries, television rooms, and dining facilities you might expect. Each also has its own student governing body and is, in effect, a community unto itself. Located in the central corridor of campus, the Honors Community houses undergraduate members of Commonwealth Honors College. In this community, undergraduates, staff, and faculty share an interwoven mix of double, single, suite, and apartment-style living options spread across six halls. This area featured a 24-hour full-service cafe during its first year, but it soon became clear that 24-hour operation was not profitable. The cafe is closed between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. during the school year and closed during the summer.[72] The community includes assembly and workshop rooms, as well as most Honors College programming and staff offices.

Major campus expansion

 
$160m Life Science Laboratories Building on the campus.[73]

The University of Massachusetts Amherst campus embarked on a 10-year, $1 billion[74] capital improvement program in 2004, setting the stage for re-visioning the campus's future.[75][76] This includes construction of $156 million New Science Laboratory Building, $30 million Champions Basketball Center, an $85 million academic building, and $30 million in renovations to the football stadium.[77]

In early 2016, the construction of a new electrical substation located near Tillson farm was completed.[78] The purpose of the substation is to supply electricity to the university more efficiently and reliably, with estimated savings of $1 million per year.[78] The project was created in partnership with the utilities company Eversource, and cost approximately $26 million.[78] The new electrical substation works in conjunction with the university's pre-existing combined heat and power (CHP) plant.

In April 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst officially opened its new Design Building. Previously estimated at $50 million,[79] the 87,000-square-foot facility is the most advanced CLT building in the U.S. and the largest modern wood building in the northeastern United States.[80]

Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst

On April 6, 2018, Mount Ida College announced that the University of Massachusetts would be absorbing its campus. Mount Ida students were given a guaranteed transfer to UMass Dartmouth, and the campus became part of UMass Amherst. The campus was named Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst and functions as a satellite campus for UMass Amherst. The campus primarily serves as a hub for Greater Boston-area career preparation and experiential learning opportunities for UMass Amherst students. The programs that are offered at the newly acquired campus will align the strengths of UMass Amherst with the growing demand for talent in areas that drive the Massachusetts economy, including health care, business, computer science and other STEM specialties.[81]

Campus safety

UMass Amherst implements a multitude of services to ensure safety on and off campus for all students. On-campus residence halls are constantly monitored and secured. There are cadets stationed at the entrances that monitor the area while students are signed into the building. Anyone who does not live in that specific building has to be signed in by a friend with legitimate identification to ensure the safety of everyone in that residence hall. In addition, there are about 350 security cameras constantly monitoring every residence hall and the doors are always locked. The only way to enter is with a student ID registered to that specific building.

There is a system of “HELP” phones on campus. The "HELP" phone network is composed of approximately 110 emergency phones scattered about campus, and are available for people to use for emergency calls if they feel they are in danger or in an uncomfortable situation. These phones are easily recognizable by their bright blue light and have an emergency button that anyone can press which will automatically connect them to the UMass Police Department. This will alert the police to the users exact position so that they can send appropriate assistance.[82]

UMass Amherst also provides alerts via students' school e-mail, as well as text messages if they so choose. These alerts create awareness of any suspicious or criminal behavior occurring on or around campus. It creates an environment where students are always conscious of their surroundings and know exactly what is going on.[83]

The UMass Amherst police department (abbreviated as UMPD)[84][85] operates 24/7 and is accessible by dialing 911 (from a university owned landline) or (413) 545-3111 for emergencies, or (413) 577-8477 for non-emergencies and to leave confidential tips.[84][85] Calling 911 from a cell phone will typically redirect users to the state-operated dispatch rather than UMPD.[85] To ensure commuter safety the UMass Police Department employs a safety and escort service that offers a safe escort across campus every night. The UMPD has several specialized units that make up the department including bicycle, K-9, motorcycle, and mounted horseback units as well as foot and vehicle patrol.

The Police Cadet program has been a part of the UMPD since 2000. It is viewed as a successful program by the department and the UMass community since the cadets are an important part of the police department. Their presence can be seen mostly in the residential areas, where the cadets work very closely with police officers and Residence Hall Security.

Cadets take part in a two-week "boot-camp"-style training in preparation for the position. The training consists of police techniques, performing foot patrols, parking enforcement, prisoner watch, and other functions to free officers. The cadets operate as the eyes and the ears of the police department as they can see and hear what the officers cannot, preventing problems and their escalation.

In the past, there had been several occurrences of large non-school sponsored gatherings labeled as riots, where UMass officials had been called in.[86] After the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, an estimated 3,000 students gathered in the outdoor space around South West Residence Hall. In response to the situation, UMass police officials were called in. Police accounts state that some students participated in disruptive behavior: knocking over trash bins and climbing trees. Rubber bullets and tear gas were dispersed into the crowds. According to WGGB,[87] 14 people were arrested for failing to disperse and 1 for disorderly conduct. Whether or not the use of police force was necessary is still a controversial topic among students, the administration, and UMass and Amherst Police Department.

A similar situation had occurred after the Patriots lost the Super Bowl in 2012. Officials donning riot gear used smoke grenades to disperse the crowds. Luckily there were no injuries. Riots like these are not unheard of within the UMass community and go as far back as 1986. The majority of the events are categorized as seemingly peaceful by many students, stating that they consist mainly of students standing around, chanting and singing. There is also still debate among UMass students as to whether or not the term “riot” applies to a lot of the occurrences since they seldom involve violence or aggressive behavior from the vast majority of students present. Nevertheless, each event is met with police interference due to a fear of the unsafe environments that large unattended crowds could create. In the past there has been friction between members of the student body and the UMass Police Department around their methods of crowd control; students have been displeased with what they see as unnecessary force.

According to MassLive,[88] other riots include one in 2007 after the Boston Red Sox lost in the 2008 playoffs, another when they lost in the World Series run in 2006, one after UMass' football team lost in the Division I-AA football championship in 2006, one after the Red Sox World Series victory in 2004, another after the Red Sox lost during the 2003 playoffs, one after the Patriots first Super Bowl victory over St. Louis in 2001 and another in 1986 after the Red Sox World Series loss. The majority of these riots have been non-violent on the side of the students, except for the 1986 riot in which an argument between hundreds of students intensified into racial altercations where a black student was attacked by 15-20 white students and beaten unconscious according to archives from The Republican. Videos and visual accounts of most of these events can be found online. In the wake of these events students have worked and are continuously working to start open dialogues with the administration and police department about campus safety, the right to gather, police force and better methods of crowd control.

The Boston Globe[89] reported on the death of a student only called Logan, who died from a heroin overdose after working as a confidential informant for the UMass police department. After UMass police arrested Logan for selling LSD, he was offered the opportunity to work as a confidential informant in exchange for his freedom. UMass police did not suspect he was using drugs like heroin. Soon after the Globe's story was published, Chancellor Kumble Subbaswammy suspended the use of the program and required UMass Police to report to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Campus Life instead of the[90] Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance.[91]

Iranian student admissions controversy

UMass Amherst issued an announcement in early 2015 stating: "the University has determined that it will no longer admit Iranian national students to specific programs in the College of Engineering (i.e., Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering) and in the College of Natural Sciences (i.e., Physics, Chemistry, Microbiology, and Polymer Science & Engineering) effective February 1, 2015."[92] The University claims that this announcement was posted because a graduate student entered Iran for a project and was later denied a visa. This event along with urging from legal advisers contributed to the belief that such incidents inhibited their ability to give Iranian students a "full program of education and research for Iranian students" and thus justified changing their admissions policies. The ensuing criticism on and off campus, as well as wide media publicity, changed the minds of school officials. As a result, UMass made a statement on February 18 committing to once again allowing Iranian students to apply to the aforementioned graduate programs.[93] On the same day, an official in the U.S. Department of State stated in an interview that: "U.S. laws and regulations do not prevent Iranian people from traveling to the United States or studying in engineering program of any U.S. academic institutions."[94] UMass Amherst replaced the ban with a policy aimed at designing specific curricula for admitted Iranian nationals based on their needs. While less controversial, this policy has still generated backlash, with one student saying "this university that's supposed to be so open-minded forcing him to sign a document saying he won’t go home and build a bomb or something is just really disappointing to see."[95]

Student life

Arts on campus

 
 
The University Museum of Contemporary Art and Fine Arts Center at UMass Amherst.

The UMass Amherst campus offers a variety of artistic venues, both performance and visual art. The most prominent is Fine Arts Center (FAC) built in 1975. The FAC brings nationally known theater, music and dance performances to campus throughout the year into its performance spaces (Concert Hall, Bezanson Recital Hall, and Bowker Auditorium). These include several popular performance series: Jazz in July Summer Music Program, The Asian Arts & Culture Program, Center Series, and Magic Triangle Series presenting music, dance and theater performances, cultural arts events, films, talks, workshops, masterclasses and special family events. University Museum of Contemporary Art in the FAC has a permanent contemporary art collection of about 2,600 works and hosts numerous visual arts exhibitions each year as well as workshops, masterclasses and artist residencies.[96]

The 9,000-seat Mullins Center, the multi-purpose arena of UMass Amherst hosts a wide variety of performances including speakers, rock concerts, and Broadway shows. In addition, the Music, Dance, and Theater Departments, the Renaissance Center, and multiple student groups dedicated to the arts provide an eclectic menu of performances throughout the year.

The Interdepartmental Program for Film Studies has been organizing the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival on campus since 1991.[97]

Groups and activities

 
Student Union
 
 
The campus scene and bird's eye view looking southeast.
 
Coolidge Hall and Kennedy Hall, dormitories at the university.

UMass Amherst has a history of protest and activism among the undergraduate and graduate population[98] and is home to over 200 registered student organizations (RSOs).

SGA

The Student Government Association (SGA) is the undergraduate student governmental body, and provides funding for the many registered student organizations (RSOs) and agencies, including the Student Legal Services Office (SLSO) and the Center for Student Business (CSB). The SGA also makes formal recommendations on matters of campus policy and advocates for undergraduate students to the Administration, non-student organizations, and local and state government. As of the 2023 school year, the SGA had a budget of over $7.5 million per year, which is collected from students in the form of the $266 per year Student Activities Fee.[99] It is used to fund RSOs, Agencies and the SGA itself.

UMass Permaculture

UMass Permaculture is one of the first university permaculture initiatives in the nation that transforms marginalized landscapes on the campus into diverse, educational, low-maintenance and edible gardens according to UMass officials.[100] One of the most important aspects of UMass Permaculture is that it comes from the students and is ecologically and socially responsible. Rather than tilling the soil, a more sustainable landscaping method known as sheet mulching is employed. During November 2010, "about a quarter of a million pounds of organic matter was moved by hand",[101] using all student and community volunteer labor and no fossil fuels on-site. The process took about two weeks to complete. Now, the Franklin Permaculture Garden includes a diverse mixture of "vegetables, fruit trees, berry bushes, culinary herbs and a lot of flowers that will attract beneficial insects."[101]

ROTC

The Minuteman Battalion is the institution's Army ROTC battalion. Active on the Amherst campus, the program's Scabbard and Blade community service club is very active and represents UMass well throughout the year with food drives, assistance to local veteran's groups and assistance with the Medical Readiness Corps at UMass in preparing for large-scale medical disasters. Most students are on a full tuition scholarship. UMass-Amherst is the host program for the Pioneer Valley and Five Colleges Army ROTC programs including: Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Western New England University, Springfield College, Westfield State College and American International College (AIC).

Minuteman Marching Band

Main article: University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band
 
The University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band during a pre-game show.

UMass Amherst has the largest marching band in New England. The Minuteman Marching Band consists of over 390 members and regularly plays at football games. The band was led by John Jenkins from 1963 to 1977. In 1977 George N. Parks took over until his death in September 2010. Timothy Todd Anderson became the director in 2011. The Minuteman Band also won the prestigious Sudler Trophy in 1998 for excellence. The band is well known across the nation for its style and excellence, particularly for its battery and pit ensemble. The band also performs in various other places and events like the Collegiate Marching Band Festival in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bands of America in Indianapolis, Symphony Hall, Boston, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, and on occasion Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Fraternities and sororities

UMass is home to numerous fraternities and sororities, organized under four councils: IFC, NPC, NPHC, and the MGC. Currently, several sororities & fraternities have officially recognized housing in the area including national fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa, whose first chapter was founded at UMass in 1873.

Several Greek Life organizations had houses on North Pleasant Street until Alpha Tau Gamma, Inc., which owned a total of nine properties at one point, did not renew the leases at the request of the University. The North Pleasant Street houses were colloquially known as 'Frat Row'. Most of Alpha Tau Gamma's Properties houses were out of code and were razed in November 2006. Alpha Tau Gamma sold the land to the University for $2,500,000 in 2007.[102] ATG, which is the Fraternity of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, then donated $500,001 to endow a new Director of Stockbridge.

National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations:

Multicultural Greek Council organizations:

Panhellenic sororities:

IFC fraternities:

Honor societies, service, and veterans' organizations:

Media

The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the official newspaper of UMass Amherst, is published Monday through Thursday during the calendar semester. The Collegian is a non-profit student run organization which receives no funding from the University or from student fees. The Collegian operates entirely on advertising revenues. Founded in 1890, the paper began as Aggie Life, became the College Signal in 1901, the Weekly Collegian in 1914 and the Tri-Weekly Collegian in 1956. Published daily since 1967, the Collegian has been broadsheet since January 1994. The Daily Collegian is one of the largest daily college newspapers in New England and the country.

UVC-TV 19

The Union Video Center is the University of Massachusetts' student-run television station, located in the basement of the Student Union. UVC-TV 19 is part of the University's Housing Cable Services Network and airs on channel 19 to over 11,000 viewers on campus via a closed circuit system. UVC began as the Student Video Project in 1974, and was renamed the Union Video Center in 1978 after growing into a full-fledged television station. Today, UVC-TV 19 serves as an educational training facility on campus for full-time undergraduate students.

WMUA 91.1 FM

The student-operated radio station, WMUA, is a federally licensed, non-commercial broadcast facility serving the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, Northern Connecticut, and Southern Vermont. Although the station is managed by full-time undergraduate students of the University of Massachusetts, station members can consist of various members of the University (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff), as well as people of the surrounding communities. WMUA began as an AM station in 1949.

WSYL-FM

There was a student-run, extremely-low-power FM radio station which used the self-assigned identifier "WSYL-FM" (With Songs You Like) which operated in the basement of Cashin from the mid-1970s through the 1980s. It was very successful in terms of pleasing listeners and providing engineering and DJ experience for hundreds of students.[103]

Athletics

 
The University of Massachusetts Minuteman playing with Michigan Wolverines in 2010.
Main article: UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen

UMass is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, while playing ice hockey in the Hockey East Association. The football team joined the Mid-American Conference (MAC), in order to play at Football Bowl Subdivision (the sport's highest level) with games played at Gillette Stadium in 2012.[104] In March 2014, the MAC and UMass announced an agreement for the Minutemen football team to leave the conference after the 2015 season due to UMass declining an offer to become a full member of the conference. In the agreement between the MAC and the university, there was a contractual clause that had UMass playing in the MAC as a football-only member for two more seasons if UMass declined a full membership offer. UMass announced that it would look for a "more suitable conference" for the team.[105] UMass Amherst plays most of its home games at the 17,000-seat McGuirk Stadium on campus.

UMass originally was known as the Aggies, later the Statesmen, then the Redmen. In a response to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American–themed mascots, they changed their mascot in 1972 to the Minuteman, based on the historical "minuteman" relationship with Massachusetts; women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen.

UMass football has enjoyed various levels of success over the years. As a founding member of the Yankee Conference, Massachusetts won 17 Yankee Conference Championships, appearing in one National Championship game during that timespan. They fell to Florida A&M in this inaugural Division I-AA Championship, 35–28. UMass' success continued as they began competition in the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997. They went on to win four more conference titles while playing in the A-10 and make two more appearances in the National Championship game, winning it all in 1998. In 2006 the Minutemen took home the last A-10 title (the A-10 handed off management of their football league to the Colonial Athletic Association after the season) and made their most recent Championship game appearance. Their most recent conference championship came in 2007, the inaugural season under the CAA name.

Some journalists[who?][106] consider Boston College, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Rhode Island their biggest sports rivals. Temple University has also been a strong rival in the Atlantic 10, but the rivalry came to an end when Temple moved all of its sports programs to the Big East Conference in 2013.[citation needed]

The UMass Amherst Department of Athletics currently sponsors Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Football, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming, and Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field. They also sponsor Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Softball, Cross Country, Rowing, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming, Field Hockey, Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field, and Tennis. Club sports offered which are not also offered at the varsity level are Men's Wrestling, Men's Rowing, Men's Tennis, Women's Ice Hockey, Men's and Women's Rugby, Men's and Women's Bicycle Racing, and Men's and Women's Fencing. Men's and Women's Downhill Skiing have been re-certified as club sports following the April 2, 2009 announcement of their discontinuation as varsity sports.[107]

 
2010 UMass Football Team at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

Notable alumni, faculty, and staff

Alumni

Main pages: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni and Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni

There are 243,628 University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni worldwide.[109] Notable UMass Amherst alumni include Greg Landry, Jeff Corwin, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taj Mahal, Bill Paxton, William Monahan, Kenneth Feinberg, Bill Cosby,[110] Natalie Cole,[111] Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Rick Pitino, Bill Pullman, Betty Shabazz, Briana Scurry, Jack Welch, John F. Smith Jr., Jean Worthley, Jeff Reardon, Brandon Tory, Mike Flanagan, Serena Williams, Lawrence Mestel and Richard Gere.

Faculty

Main pages: List of University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty and Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty

Notable faculty have included Sheila Bair, the former Chairman of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Chuck Close, celebrated photorealist; Samuel R. Delany, author and critic; Vincent Dethier, pioneer physiologist; Ted Hughes, British poet laureate; Max Roach, considered one of the most important jazz drummers in history; Lynn Margulis, famed biologist; Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, heterodox economists; James Tate, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet; and Robert Paul Wolff, in both philosophy and African-American studies. Current faculty of note include poet Peter Gizzi, T.S. Eliot Prize–winning poet Ocean Vuong, media critic Sut Jhally, and feminist economist Nancy Folbre.

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ The total number of enrolled students at Boston University is 34,589 as of the year 2020.
  2. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  4. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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Further reading

  • Katharine Greider (2013). UMass Rising: The University of Massachusetts Amherst at 150. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-989-8.
  • Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. and Pressley Associates (August 2009). "University of Massachusetts Amherst Historic Building Inventory - Final Survey Report" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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Not to be confused with Amherst College The University of Massachusetts Amherst UMass Amherst UMass 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 University of Massachusetts AmherstLatin Universitas MassachusettensisFormer namesMassachusetts Agricultural College 1863 1931 1 Massachusetts State College 1931 1947 MottoEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem Latin Motto in English By the sword we seek peace but peace only under liberty TypePublic land grant research universityEstablishedApril 29 1863 159 years ago 1863 04 29 2 Parent institutionUniversity of Massachusetts SystemAccreditationNECHEAcademic affiliationsFive CollegesEndowment 494 million 2021 3 ChancellorKumble SubbaswamyProvostTricia Serio 4 Academic staff1 543 full time and 386 part time Fall 2021 5 Students32 045 Fall 2021 5 6 7 Undergraduates24 231 Fall 2021 5 Postgraduates7 814 Fall 2021 5 LocationAmherst Massachusetts United States42 23 20 N 72 31 40 W 42 38889 N 72 52778 W 42 38889 72 52778 Coordinates 42 23 20 N 72 31 40 W 42 38889 N 72 52778 W 42 38889 72 52778CampusLarge Suburb 1 463 acres 5 92 km2 NewspaperThe Massachusetts Daily CollegianColorsMaroon and white 8 NicknameMinutemen and Minutewomen 9 Sporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS Atlantic 10Hockey EastIndependent football MascotSam the Minuteman 10 Websitewww wbr umass wbr eduIt is the largest university in Massachusetts by campus size and largest university by undergraduate enrollment in Massachusetts second to Boston University in total enrollment due to Boston University s large postgraduate enrollment 11 a The university offers academic degrees in 109 undergraduate 77 master s and 48 doctoral programs Programs are coordinated in nine schools and colleges 12 As of Fall 2022 UMass Amherst has an annual enrollment of more than 32 000 5 students along with approximately 1 900 faculty members 5 The University of Massachusetts Amherst is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 13 According to the National Science Foundation the university spent 211 million on research and development in 2018 14 12 The university s 21 varsity athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I and are collectively known as the Minutemen and Minutewomen The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference while playing ice hockey in Hockey East and football as an FBS Independent The university s past and present students and faculty include four Nobel Prize laureates 15 a National Humanities Medal winner 16 numerous Fulbright 17 Goldwater Churchill 18 19 Truman 20 and Gates Scholars 21 Olympic Gold Medalists a United States Poet Laureate as well as several Pulitzer Prize recipients and Grammy Emmy and Academy Award winners Contents 1 History 1 1 Foundation and early years 1 2 Modern era 1 3 21st century 2 Organization and administration 2 1 Colleges and schools 3 Academics 3 1 Rankings and reputation 3 2 Commonwealth Honors College 3 3 Five College Consortium 3 4 Community service 3 5 Research 4 Admissions and enrollment 5 Campus 5 1 Residential life 5 2 Major campus expansion 5 3 Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst 5 4 Campus safety 5 5 Iranian student admissions controversy 6 Student life 6 1 Arts on campus 6 2 Groups and activities 6 2 1 SGA 6 2 2 UMass Permaculture 6 2 3 ROTC 6 2 4 Minuteman Marching Band 6 2 5 Fraternities and sororities 6 3 Media 6 3 1 The Massachusetts Daily Collegian 6 3 2 UVC TV 19 6 3 3 WMUA 91 1 FM 6 3 4 WSYL FM 7 Athletics 8 Notable alumni faculty and staff 8 1 Alumni 8 2 Faculty 9 See also 10 Explanatory notes 11 References 12 Further reading 13 External linksHistory EditFoundation and early years Edit Massachusetts Agricultural College as it appeared in 1879 with students and faculty standing in front of Old South College North College and the college s first chapel The University s Centennial Seal Old Chapel constructed in 1884 at the campus The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in agricultural mechanical and military arts Accordingly the university was initially named the Massachusetts Agricultural College popularly referred to as Mass Aggie or M A C In 1867 the college had yet to admit any students been through two Presidents and had still not completed any college buildings In that year William S Clark was appointed President of the college and Professor of Botany He quickly appointed a faculty completed the construction plan and in the fall of 1867 admitted the first class of approximately 50 students Clark became the first president to serve longterm after the schools opening and is often regarded the primary founding father of the college 22 Of the school s founding figures there are a traditional founding four Clark Levi Stockbridge Charles Goessmann and Henry Goodell described as the botanist the farmer the chemist and the man of letters 23 24 The original buildings consisted of Old South College a dormitory located on the site of the present South College North College a second dormitory once located just south of today s Machmer Hall the Chemistry Laboratory also known as College Hall once located on the present site of Machmer Hall the Boarding House a small dining hall located just north of the present Campus Parking Garage the Botanic Museum located on the north side of the intersection of Stockbridge Road and Chancellor s Hill Drive and the Durfee Plant House located on the site of the new Durfee Conservatory 25 Although enrollment was slow during the 1870s the fledgling college built momentum under the leadership of President Henry Hill Goodell In the 1880s Goodell implemented an expansion plan adding the College Drill Hall in 1883 the first gymnasium the Old Chapel Library in 1885 one of the oldest extant buildings on campus and an important symbol of the University and the East and West Experiment Stations in 1886 and 1890 The Campus Pond now the central focus of the University Campus was created in 1893 by damming a small brook The early 20th century saw great expansion in terms of enrollment and the scope of the curriculum The first female student was admitted in 1875 on a part time basis and the first full time female student was admitted in 1892 In 1903 Draper Hall was constructed for the dual purpose of a dining hall and female housing The first female students graduated with the class of 1905 The first dedicated female dormitory the Abigail Adams House on the site of today s Lederle Tower was built in 1920 26 Panoramic view of campus 1916 in the foreground at the left is the Apiary Laboratory Fernald Hall the Old Chapel and Clark Hall in the distance to the right can be seen French Hall and Stockbridge Hall Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher was president when Massachusetts Agricultural College changed its name to Massachusetts State College in 1931 27 By the start of the 20th century the college was thriving and quickly expanded its curriculum to include the liberal arts The Education curriculum was established in 1907 In recognition of the higher enrollment and broader curriculum the college was renamed Massachusetts State College in 1931 Following World War II the G I Bill facilitating financial aid for veterans led to an explosion of applicants The college population soared and Presidents Hugh Potter Baker and Ralph Van Meter labored to push through major construction projects in the 1940s and 1950s particularly with regard to dormitories now Northeast and Central Residential Areas Accordingly the name of the college was changed in 1947 to the University of Massachusetts Modern era Edit Welcome sign at the university west gate By the 1970s the University continued to grow and gave rise to a shuttle bus service on campus as well as many other architectural additions this included the Murray D Lincoln Campus Center complete with a hotel office space fine dining restaurant campus store and passageway to the parking garage the W E B Du Bois Library and the Fine Arts Center Over the course of the next two decades the John W Lederle Graduate Research Center and the Conte National Polymer Research Center were built and UMass Amherst emerged as a major research facility The Robsham Memorial Center for Visitors welcomed thousands of guests to campus after its dedication in 1989 For athletic and other large events the Mullins Center was opened in 1993 hosting capacity crowds as the Minutemen basketball team ranked at number one for many weeks in the mid 1990s and reached the Final Four in 1996 21st century Edit UMass Amherst entered the 21st century with 19 061 students enrolled 28 In 2003 for the first time the Massachusetts State Legislature legally designated UMass Amherst as a Research University and the flagship campus of the UMass system 29 The university was named a top producer of Fulbright Award winners in the 2008 2009 academic year 30 Additionally in 2010 it was named one of the Top Colleges and Universities Contributing to Teach For America s 2010 Teaching Corps 31 Organization and administration EditSee also List of chancellors of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Colleges and schools Edit College School Year foundedStockbridge School of Agriculture 1870College of Education 1907College of Humanities amp Fine Arts 1915School of Public Health and Health Sciences 1937College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 1938Isenberg School of Management 1947College of Engineering 1947Elaine N Marieb College of Nursing 1953College of Natural Sciences 2009Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences 2015School of Public Policy 2016 From the W E B DuBois Library a northward view The Lederle Graduate Research Tower can be seen in the background with the Campus Center and Hotel in the foreground Since the University of Massachusetts Amherst was founded as the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1863 25 individuals have been at the helm of the institution 32 Originally the chief executive of UMass Amherst was a president When UMass Boston was founded in 1963 it was initially reckoned as an off site department of the Amherst campus and was headed by a chancellor who reported to the president A 1970 reorganization transferred day to day responsibility for UMass Amherst to a chancellor as well with both chancellors reporting on an equal basis to the president The title President of the University of Massachusetts now refers to the chief executive of the entire five campus University of Massachusetts system The current Chancellor of the Amherst campus is Dr Kumble R Subbaswamy 33 The Chancellor resides in Hillside the campus residence for chancellors 34 There are approximately 1 300 full time faculty at the university 12 The university is organized into nine schools and colleges and offers 111 bachelor s degrees 75 master s degrees and 47 doctoral degrees 12 Students interested in studying outside of a particular major can apply to enroll in the bachelor s degree with Individual Concentration BDIC program This is a unique program which allows students to design their own area of study A BDIC concentration must be interdisciplinary drawing from at least three fields or disciplines and it may not duplicate an existing major Courses can be selected from any department within the university as well as the campuses in the Five College Consortium Course selection is guided by the students chosen faculty sponsor and a BDIC faculty supervisor BDIC students are assigned to one of five academic clusters Arts and Cultural studies Business and Law Communication Education and Human Development Natural Health Computer Sciences and Engineering Additionally the university offers two programs designed for adult and continuing education students known as University Without Walls 35 and Continuing and Professional Education 36 Academics Edit Goodell Hall Rankings and reputation Edit Academic rankingsNationalForbes 37 198THE WSJ 38 141U S News amp World Report 39 67Washington Monthly 40 82GlobalARWU 41 151 200QS 42 253THE 43 201 250U S News amp World Report 44 160USNWR graduate school rankings 45 Business 53Education 63Engineering 56USNWR departmental rankings 45 Audiology 26Biological Sciences 54Chemistry 52Clinical Psychology 50Computer Science 20Earth Sciences 46English 57Fine Arts 89History 44Mathematics 55Physics 56Political Science 56Psychology 53Public Affairs 65Public Health 32Sociology 30Speech Language Pathology 45Statistics 74U S News amp World Report s 2021 edition of America s Best Colleges ranked UMass Amherst tied for 66th on their list of Best National Universities and tied for 26th among 141 public universities in the U S 46 The undergraduate computer science program tied for 31st among 481 U S colleges UMass Amherst is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education 47 The Isenberg School of Management s undergraduate business program was ranked by BusinessWeek in 2014 as the 36th best program in the country 48 The linguistics program was ranked by QS World University Rankings in 2021 as the 2nd best globally 49 The National Research Council ranked computer science at UMass Amherst 18th in quality of PhD education and ranked polymer science 2nd in quality of PhD education and 7th in quality of scholarship among all US materials departments citation needed The Institute for Scientific Information ranked the chemical engineering program 5th computer Science department 9th and recognized the geosciences department for producing the most cited paper on global warming citation needed Founded in 1971 the University Without Walls was one of the first adult bachelor s degree completion programs in the country The UMass Amherst campus is known for its sustainability In 2010 the UMass Climate Action Plan CAP was approved which documented the campus plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 In 2011 UMass Amherst became one of the four colleges to receive a gold star from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education In 2013 UMass Amherst made it onto the Princeton review s Green Honor Roll and in 2014 received its second National Climate Leadership Award Furthermore this is one of the only public universities to use the fresh fruits and vegetables in the dining commons from its very own permaculture gardens 50 Commonwealth Honors College Edit 182 million new Commonwealth Honors College complex being constructed at the university 51 The Old Chapel and W E B DuBois Library at UMass Amherst Commonwealth Honors College is the honors college at UMass The honors college provides students the opportunity to intensify their UMass academic curriculum The requirements of the college are to complete an honors college writing course a seminar called Ideas That Changed the World two honors gen ed courses an honors seminar called Topics and for advanced scholarship honors several upper level honors courses including an honors thesis or project Membership in the honors college is not required in order to graduate the University with higher Latin honors designations such as magna or summa cum laude Commonwealth Honors College provides honors students an additional community of students to interact with outside of their academic department and holds many social and academic events during the school year In 2013 the University completed the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community CHCRC on campus to serve the College including classrooms faculty housing an administration area and residence areas that houses 1 500 students 52 Five College Consortium Edit UMass Amherst is part of the Five Colleges Consortium which allows its students to attend classes borrow books work with professors etc at four other Pioneer Valley institutions Amherst Hampshire Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges All five colleges are located within 10 miles of Amherst center and are accessible by public bus The five share an astronomy department and some other undergraduate and graduate departments UMass Amherst holds the license for WFCR the National Public Radio affiliate for Western Massachusetts In 2014 the station moved its main operations to the Fuller Building on Main Street in Springfield but retained some offices in Hampshire House on the UMass campus 53 Community service Edit UMass Amherst emphasizes community service as part of its academic programs The Community Engagement Program CEP offers courses that combine classroom learning and community service and sponsors programs such as the first year IMPACT learning community and the Community Scholars Program Co curricular service programs include the Alternative Spring Break Engineers without Borders the Legal Studies Civil Rights Clinical Project the Medical Reserve Corps Alpha Phi Omega the Red Cross Club the Rotaract Club UCAN Volunteer and the Veterans and Service Members Association VSMA The White House has named UMass Amherst to the President s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for four consecutive years in recognition of its commitment to volunteering service learning and civic engagement 54 They have also been named a Community Engaged University by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 55 The Princeton Review included UMass Amherst in its Colleges with a Conscience 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement Research Edit Main article List of research centers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Further information List of research groups at the University of Massachusetts Amherst UMass research activities totaled more than 200 million in fiscal year 2014 12 In 2016 the faculty adopted an open access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online 56 Researchers at the university made several high profile achievements in recent years In a bi national collaboration National Institute of Astrophysics Optics and Electronics and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst came together and built Large Millimeter Telescope 57 58 It was inaugurated in Mexico in 2006 on top of Sierra Negra A team of scientists at UMass led by Vincent Rotello has developed a molecular nose that can detect and identify various proteins The research appeared in the May 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology and the team is currently focusing on sensors which will detect malformed proteins made by cancer cells 59 Also UMass Amherst scientists Richard Farris Todd Emrick and Bryan Coughlin led a research team that developed a synthetic polymer that does not burn This polymer is a building block of plastic and the new flame retardant plastic will not need to have flame retarding chemicals added to their composition These chemicals have recently been found in many different areas from homes and offices to fish and there are environmental and health concerns regarding the additives The newly developed polymers would not require addition of the potentially hazardous chemicals 60 Environmental research UMass Amherst researchers have positioned the campus as a national leader in sustainability citation needed Economics professor Robert Pollin has influenced the national discussion about how best to stimulate the US economy and promote sustainability He and colleagues at the Political Economy Research Institute have developed a plan for national recovery that shows for example that investing in clean energy wind power solar and biofuels will create about three times as many good paying jobs than conventional projects will while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on foreign oil citation needed Since September 2009 the campus has won more than 36 million in competitive stimulus grants These include citation needed 7 1 million in grants from the National Science Foundation to approximately 20 separate researchers 16 million from the Department of Energy to establish an Energy Frontier Research Center on campus to develop highly efficient non silicon polymer materials for harvesting solar energy 1 9 million to chemical engineer George Huber to further develop bio fuels from inedible corn stalks bark wood waste and similar biomass Other significant research in environmentally safe technology among UMass Amherst faculty includes Microbiologist Susan Leschine has raised 25 million to commercialize technology that converts plant waste into ethanol using the Q microbe discovered in the Quabbin Reservoir just east of the campus James Manwell director of the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory leads testing on large wind turbine blades at a new federal facility in Boston after helping construct two municipal wind turbines in Hull Massachusetts Microbiologist Derek Lovley discovered Geobacter a tiny biological structure that can clean up groundwater and produce electricity through conductive microbial nanowires The Northeast Climate Science Center one of four national offices designated by the Department of the Interior is located at the University of Massachusetts Admissions and enrollment Edit Mather House the admissions office at the university In 2012 the university reported that applications to the school had more than doubled since the Fall of 2003 and increased more than 80 since 2005 61 62 In 2015 a record high of 40 010 applications were received with 58 of applicants being accepted and 1 6 being accepted to the Commonwealth Honors College The incoming Class of 2022 had an average high school GPA of 3 90 out of a 4 0 weighted scale up from an average GPA of 3 83 the year before The average SAT score of the Class of 2022 was 1294 1600 and on average the students ranked in the top fifth of their high school class Acceptance to the Commonwealth Honors College program of UMass Amherst is even more selective with an average SAT score of 1409 1600 and an average weighted high school GPA of 4 29 63 Student body composition as of May 2 2022 Race and ethnicity 64 TotalWhite 61 61 Asian 11 11 Hispanic 8 8 Foreign national 7 7 Other b 7 7 Black 5 5 Economic diversityLow income c 20 20 Affluent d 80 80 First Year Student Statistics 65 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008Applicants 41 612 41 922 40 704 40 010 37 183 35 868 34 326 32 564 30 853 29 452 28 931Admits 24 911 24 102 24 275 23 308 22 804 22 556 21 470 21 373 20 858 19 703 18 601 Admitted 59 9 57 5 59 6 58 3 61 3 62 9 62 5 65 6 67 6 66 9 64 3Enrolled 5 010 4 714 4 643 4 661 4 642 4 621 4 592 4 688 4 469 4 124 4 144Average SAT 1296 1268 1225 1226 1218 1208 1197 1189 1167 1169 1155HS GPA 3 90 3 89 3 83 3 83 3 78 3 73 3 66 3 64 3 61 3 60 3 56This table does not account deferred transfer applications or other unique situations Campus EditMain article Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst See also Chestnut Ridge Historical Area East Ridge Historical Area and Ellis Drive Historical Area The University s campus is situated on 1 450 acres Nipmuc land mainly in the town of Amherst but also partly in the neighboring town of Hadley The campus extends about 1 mile 1 6 km from the Campus Center in all directions and may be thought of as a series of concentric rings with innermost ring harboring academic buildings and research labs surrounded by a ring of the seven residential areas and two University owned apartment complexes These include North Apartments Sylvan Northeast Central Orchard Hill Southwest Commonwealth Honors College Residential Complex as well as the two University owned apartment complexes North Village and Lincoln Apartments These are in turn surrounded by a ring of athletic facilities smaller administration buildings and parking lots The campus has its own Combined Heat and Power CHP generation facility The plant which was dedicated in 2009 after ten years of planning replaced a coal burning power plant dating back to 1918 and has reduced the campus greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 75 In 2011 the CHP was recognized as the cleanest plant of its size in New England and has been recognized for maintaining 80 efficiency over six consecutive quarters In 2008 the CHP received the Combined Cycle Journal Pacesetter Award for the best Combined Heat and Power plant project in the US that year The award refers to its innovative design efficiency reliability system redundancy and environmental benefits In 2009 the CHP received the Sustainable Campus Leadership Award from the International District Energy Association The award states it was given In recognition of exemplary public leadership in advancing energy efficiency and global environmental stewardship through investment in an innovative district energy system The Environmental Protection Agency EPA presented the University of Massachusetts with the 2011 Combined Heat and Power Energy Star Award in an effort to recognize the reduced emissions and increased efficiency of the plant The W E B Du Bois Library is the world s 2nd tallest library 66 and the tallest university library 67 The W E B Du Bois Library is one of two library buildings on campus and the tallest academic research library in the world standing at 26 stories above ground and 286 feet 90 32 m tall 68 Before its construction in the late 1960s Goodell Hall was the University library which was built after the library had outgrown its space in the 1885 Old Chapel building Originally known as Goodell Library the building was named for Henry H Goodell who had served as College Librarian Professor of Modern Languages and English Literature and eighth President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College The Library is well regarded for its innovative architectural design which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building 69 It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African American activist and Massachusetts native W E B Du Bois as well as being the depository for other important collections such as the papers of the late Congressman Silvio O Conte The library s special collections include works on movements for social change African American history and culture labor and industry literature and the arts agriculture and the history of the surrounding region 70 Stockbridge Hall Stockbridge School of Agriculture The Science and Engineering Library is the other library on campus and is located in the Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise UMass is also home to the DEFA Film Library the only archive and study collection of East German films outside of Europe and the Shirley Graham Du Bois Library in the New Africa House The university has several buildings constructed in the 1960s and 70s of importance in the modernist style including the Murray D Lincoln Campus Center and Hotel designed by Marcel Breuer the Southwest Residential Area designed by Hugh Stubbins Jr of Skidmore Owings amp Merrill The Fine Arts Center by Kevin Roche the W E B Du Bois Library by Edward Durell Stone and Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium by Gordon Bunshaft Many of the older dorms and lecture halls are built in a Georgian Revival style such as French Hall Fernald Hall Stockbridge Hall and Flint Laboratory The campus facilities underwent extensive renovations during the late 1990s New and newly renovated facilities include student apartment complexes the Hampshire Dining Commons a library Learning Commons a School of Management an Integrated Science Building a Nursing Building a Studio Arts Building the Combined Heat and Power CHP generation facility a track facility and a Recreation Center Newly completed construction projects on campus include the new Campus Police Station the George N Parks Minuteman Marching Band Building the Life Sciences Laboratories and the Integrated Learning Center 71 Arnold House part of Northeast Residential Area the oldest residential area at UMass Amherst Residential life Edit Main article List of University of Massachusetts Amherst residence halls Residential Life at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the largest on campus housing systems in the United States Over 14 000 students live in 52 residence halls while families staff and graduate students live in 345 units in two apartment complexes North Village and Lincoln The fifty two residence halls and four undergraduate apartment buildings are grouped into seven separate and very different residential areas Central Northeast Orchard Hill Southwest Sylvan North Apartments and the recently constructed Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community CHCRC Each possesses its own distinctive characteristics inspired in part by location in part by architecture and in part by the different cultural or academic living learning programs housed within Each residential area houses classrooms recreational and social centers kitchenettes and cultural centers in addition to the bedrooms study areas laundries television rooms and dining facilities you might expect Each also has its own student governing body and is in effect a community unto itself Located in the central corridor of campus the Honors Community houses undergraduate members of Commonwealth Honors College In this community undergraduates staff and faculty share an interwoven mix of double single suite and apartment style living options spread across six halls This area featured a 24 hour full service cafe during its first year but it soon became clear that 24 hour operation was not profitable The cafe is closed between 1 a m and 7 a m during the school year and closed during the summer 72 The community includes assembly and workshop rooms as well as most Honors College programming and staff offices Major campus expansion Edit 160m Life Science Laboratories Building on the campus 73 The University of Massachusetts Amherst campus embarked on a 10 year 1 billion 74 capital improvement program in 2004 setting the stage for re visioning the campus s future 75 76 This includes construction of 156 million New Science Laboratory Building 30 million Champions Basketball Center an 85 million academic building and 30 million in renovations to the football stadium 77 In early 2016 the construction of a new electrical substation located near Tillson farm was completed 78 The purpose of the substation is to supply electricity to the university more efficiently and reliably with estimated savings of 1 million per year 78 The project was created in partnership with the utilities company Eversource and cost approximately 26 million 78 The new electrical substation works in conjunction with the university s pre existing combined heat and power CHP plant In April 2017 the University of Massachusetts Amherst officially opened its new Design Building Previously estimated at 50 million 79 the 87 000 square foot facility is the most advanced CLT building in the U S and the largest modern wood building in the northeastern United States 80 Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst Edit On April 6 2018 Mount Ida College announced that the University of Massachusetts would be absorbing its campus Mount Ida students were given a guaranteed transfer to UMass Dartmouth and the campus became part of UMass Amherst The campus was named Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst and functions as a satellite campus for UMass Amherst The campus primarily serves as a hub for Greater Boston area career preparation and experiential learning opportunities for UMass Amherst students The programs that are offered at the newly acquired campus will align the strengths of UMass Amherst with the growing demand for talent in areas that drive the Massachusetts economy including health care business computer science and other STEM specialties 81 Campus safety Edit UMass Amherst implements a multitude of services to ensure safety on and off campus for all students On campus residence halls are constantly monitored and secured There are cadets stationed at the entrances that monitor the area while students are signed into the building Anyone who does not live in that specific building has to be signed in by a friend with legitimate identification to ensure the safety of everyone in that residence hall In addition there are about 350 security cameras constantly monitoring every residence hall and the doors are always locked The only way to enter is with a student ID registered to that specific building There is a system of HELP phones on campus The HELP phone network is composed of approximately 110 emergency phones scattered about campus and are available for people to use for emergency calls if they feel they are in danger or in an uncomfortable situation These phones are easily recognizable by their bright blue light and have an emergency button that anyone can press which will automatically connect them to the UMass Police Department This will alert the police to the users exact position so that they can send appropriate assistance 82 UMass Amherst also provides alerts via students school e mail as well as text messages if they so choose These alerts create awareness of any suspicious or criminal behavior occurring on or around campus It creates an environment where students are always conscious of their surroundings and know exactly what is going on 83 The UMass Amherst police department abbreviated as UMPD 84 85 operates 24 7 and is accessible by dialing 911 from a university owned landline or 413 545 3111 for emergencies or 413 577 8477 for non emergencies and to leave confidential tips 84 85 Calling 911 from a cell phone will typically redirect users to the state operated dispatch rather than UMPD 85 To ensure commuter safety the UMass Police Department employs a safety and escort service that offers a safe escort across campus every night The UMPD has several specialized units that make up the department including bicycle K 9 motorcycle and mounted horseback units as well as foot and vehicle patrol The Police Cadet program has been a part of the UMPD since 2000 It is viewed as a successful program by the department and the UMass community since the cadets are an important part of the police department Their presence can be seen mostly in the residential areas where the cadets work very closely with police officers and Residence Hall Security Cadets take part in a two week boot camp style training in preparation for the position The training consists of police techniques performing foot patrols parking enforcement prisoner watch and other functions to free officers The cadets operate as the eyes and the ears of the police department as they can see and hear what the officers cannot preventing problems and their escalation In the past there had been several occurrences of large non school sponsored gatherings labeled as riots where UMass officials had been called in 86 After the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013 an estimated 3 000 students gathered in the outdoor space around South West Residence Hall In response to the situation UMass police officials were called in Police accounts state that some students participated in disruptive behavior knocking over trash bins and climbing trees Rubber bullets and tear gas were dispersed into the crowds According to WGGB 87 14 people were arrested for failing to disperse and 1 for disorderly conduct Whether or not the use of police force was necessary is still a controversial topic among students the administration and UMass and Amherst Police Department A similar situation had occurred after the Patriots lost the Super Bowl in 2012 Officials donning riot gear used smoke grenades to disperse the crowds Luckily there were no injuries Riots like these are not unheard of within the UMass community and go as far back as 1986 The majority of the events are categorized as seemingly peaceful by many students stating that they consist mainly of students standing around chanting and singing There is also still debate among UMass students as to whether or not the term riot applies to a lot of the occurrences since they seldom involve violence or aggressive behavior from the vast majority of students present Nevertheless each event is met with police interference due to a fear of the unsafe environments that large unattended crowds could create In the past there has been friction between members of the student body and the UMass Police Department around their methods of crowd control students have been displeased with what they see as unnecessary force According to MassLive 88 other riots include one in 2007 after the Boston Red Sox lost in the 2008 playoffs another when they lost in the World Series run in 2006 one after UMass football team lost in the Division I AA football championship in 2006 one after the Red Sox World Series victory in 2004 another after the Red Sox lost during the 2003 playoffs one after the Patriots first Super Bowl victory over St Louis in 2001 and another in 1986 after the Red Sox World Series loss The majority of these riots have been non violent on the side of the students except for the 1986 riot in which an argument between hundreds of students intensified into racial altercations where a black student was attacked by 15 20 white students and beaten unconscious according to archives from The Republican Videos and visual accounts of most of these events can be found online In the wake of these events students have worked and are continuously working to start open dialogues with the administration and police department about campus safety the right to gather police force and better methods of crowd control The Boston Globe 89 reported on the death of a student only called Logan who died from a heroin overdose after working as a confidential informant for the UMass police department After UMass police arrested Logan for selling LSD he was offered the opportunity to work as a confidential informant in exchange for his freedom UMass police did not suspect he was using drugs like heroin Soon after the Globe s story was published Chancellor Kumble Subbaswammy suspended the use of the program and required UMass Police to report to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Campus Life instead of the 90 Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance 91 Iranian student admissions controversy Edit UMass Amherst issued an announcement in early 2015 stating the University has determined that it will no longer admit Iranian national students to specific programs in the College of Engineering i e Chemical Engineering Electrical amp Computer Engineering Mechanical amp Industrial Engineering and in the College of Natural Sciences i e Physics Chemistry Microbiology and Polymer Science amp Engineering effective February 1 2015 92 The University claims that this announcement was posted because a graduate student entered Iran for a project and was later denied a visa This event along with urging from legal advisers contributed to the belief that such incidents inhibited their ability to give Iranian students a full program of education and research for Iranian students and thus justified changing their admissions policies The ensuing criticism on and off campus as well as wide media publicity changed the minds of school officials As a result UMass made a statement on February 18 committing to once again allowing Iranian students to apply to the aforementioned graduate programs 93 On the same day an official in the U S Department of State stated in an interview that U S laws and regulations do not prevent Iranian people from traveling to the United States or studying in engineering program of any U S academic institutions 94 UMass Amherst replaced the ban with a policy aimed at designing specific curricula for admitted Iranian nationals based on their needs While less controversial this policy has still generated backlash with one student saying this university that s supposed to be so open minded forcing him to sign a document saying he won t go home and build a bomb or something is just really disappointing to see 95 Student life EditArts on campus Edit The University Museum of Contemporary Art and Fine Arts Center at UMass Amherst The UMass Amherst campus offers a variety of artistic venues both performance and visual art The most prominent is Fine Arts Center FAC built in 1975 The FAC brings nationally known theater music and dance performances to campus throughout the year into its performance spaces Concert Hall Bezanson Recital Hall and Bowker Auditorium These include several popular performance series Jazz in July Summer Music Program The Asian Arts amp Culture Program Center Series and Magic Triangle Series presenting music dance and theater performances cultural arts events films talks workshops masterclasses and special family events University Museum of Contemporary Art in the FAC has a permanent contemporary art collection of about 2 600 works and hosts numerous visual arts exhibitions each year as well as workshops masterclasses and artist residencies 96 The 9 000 seat Mullins Center the multi purpose arena of UMass Amherst hosts a wide variety of performances including speakers rock concerts and Broadway shows In addition the Music Dance and Theater Departments the Renaissance Center and multiple student groups dedicated to the arts provide an eclectic menu of performances throughout the year The Interdepartmental Program for Film Studies has been organizing the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival on campus since 1991 97 Groups and activities Edit Student Union The campus scene and bird s eye view looking southeast Coolidge Hall and Kennedy Hall dormitories at the university UMass Amherst has a history of protest and activism among the undergraduate and graduate population 98 and is home to over 200 registered student organizations RSOs SGA Edit The Student Government Association SGA is the undergraduate student governmental body and provides funding for the many registered student organizations RSOs and agencies including the Student Legal Services Office SLSO and the Center for Student Business CSB The SGA also makes formal recommendations on matters of campus policy and advocates for undergraduate students to the Administration non student organizations and local and state government As of the 2023 school year the SGA had a budget of over 7 5 million per year which is collected from students in the form of the 266 per year Student Activities Fee 99 It is used to fund RSOs Agencies and the SGA itself UMass Permaculture Edit UMass Permaculture is one of the first university permaculture initiatives in the nation that transforms marginalized landscapes on the campus into diverse educational low maintenance and edible gardens according to UMass officials 100 One of the most important aspects of UMass Permaculture is that it comes from the students and is ecologically and socially responsible Rather than tilling the soil a more sustainable landscaping method known as sheet mulching is employed During November 2010 about a quarter of a million pounds of organic matter was moved by hand 101 using all student and community volunteer labor and no fossil fuels on site The process took about two weeks to complete Now the Franklin Permaculture Garden includes a diverse mixture of vegetables fruit trees berry bushes culinary herbs and a lot of flowers that will attract beneficial insects 101 ROTC Edit The Minuteman Battalion is the institution s Army ROTC battalion Active on the Amherst campus the program s Scabbard and Blade community service club is very active and represents UMass well throughout the year with food drives assistance to local veteran s groups and assistance with the Medical Readiness Corps at UMass in preparing for large scale medical disasters Most students are on a full tuition scholarship UMass Amherst is the host program for the Pioneer Valley and Five Colleges Army ROTC programs including Smith College Mount Holyoke College Amherst College Hampshire College Western New England University Springfield College Westfield State College and American International College AIC Minuteman Marching Band Edit Main article University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band The University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band during a pre game show UMass Amherst has the largest marching band in New England The Minuteman Marching Band consists of over 390 members and regularly plays at football games The band was led by John Jenkins from 1963 to 1977 In 1977 George N Parks took over until his death in September 2010 Timothy Todd Anderson became the director in 2011 The Minuteman Band also won the prestigious Sudler Trophy in 1998 for excellence The band is well known across the nation for its style and excellence particularly for its battery and pit ensemble The band also performs in various other places and events like the Collegiate Marching Band Festival in Allentown Pennsylvania Bands of America in Indianapolis Symphony Hall Boston The Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena California and on occasion Montreal Quebec Canada Fraternities and sororities Edit UMass is home to numerous fraternities and sororities organized under four councils IFC NPC NPHC and the MGC Currently several sororities amp fraternities have officially recognized housing in the area including national fraternity Phi Sigma Kappa whose first chapter was founded at UMass in 1873 Several Greek Life organizations had houses on North Pleasant Street until Alpha Tau Gamma Inc which owned a total of nine properties at one point did not renew the leases at the request of the University The North Pleasant Street houses were colloquially known as Frat Row Most of Alpha Tau Gamma s Properties houses were out of code and were razed in November 2006 Alpha Tau Gamma sold the land to the University for 2 500 000 in 2007 102 ATG which is the Fraternity of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture then donated 500 001 to endow a new Director of Stockbridge National Pan Hellenic Council organizations Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Kappa Alpha Delta Sigma Theta Iota Phi Theta Zeta Phi Beta Multicultural Greek Council organizations alpha Kappa Delta Phi Beta Chi Theta Delta Kappa Delta Delta Xi Phi Kappa Phi Gamma Kappa Phi Lambda Lambda Upsilon Lambda Pi Delta Psi Sigma Psi Zeta Panhellenic sororities Alpha Epsilon Phi Alpha Chi Omega Chi Omega Iota Gamma Upsilon local Kappa Kappa Gamma Sigma Delta Tau Sigma Kappa Sigma Sigma Sigma IFC fraternities Alpha Chi Rho Alpha Tau Gamma local affiliated with Stockbridge School Delta Chi Delta Sigma Phi Kappa Sigma Lambda Phi Epsilon Phi Delta Theta Phi Sigma Kappa Pi Kappa Phi Sigma Chi Sigma Phi Epsilon Tau Kappa Epsilon Theta Chi Zeta Beta Tau Honor societies service and veterans organizations Alpha Phi Omega Phi Sigma Pi Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma Omega Delta Sigma Order of Omega Media Edit The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Edit The Massachusetts Daily Collegian the official newspaper of UMass Amherst is published Monday through Thursday during the calendar semester The Collegian is a non profit student run organization which receives no funding from the University or from student fees The Collegian operates entirely on advertising revenues Founded in 1890 the paper began as Aggie Life became the College Signal in 1901 the Weekly Collegian in 1914 and the Tri Weekly Collegian in 1956 Published daily since 1967 the Collegian has been broadsheet since January 1994 The Daily Collegian is one of the largest daily college newspapers in New England and the country UVC TV 19 Edit The Union Video Center is the University of Massachusetts student run television station located in the basement of the Student Union UVC TV 19 is part of the University s Housing Cable Services Network and airs on channel 19 to over 11 000 viewers on campus via a closed circuit system UVC began as the Student Video Project in 1974 and was renamed the Union Video Center in 1978 after growing into a full fledged television station Today UVC TV 19 serves as an educational training facility on campus for full time undergraduate students WMUA 91 1 FM Edit The student operated radio station WMUA is a federally licensed non commercial broadcast facility serving the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts Northern Connecticut and Southern Vermont Although the station is managed by full time undergraduate students of the University of Massachusetts station members can consist of various members of the University undergraduate and graduate students faculty and staff as well as people of the surrounding communities WMUA began as an AM station in 1949 WSYL FM Edit There was a student run extremely low power FM radio station which used the self assigned identifier WSYL FM With Songs You Like which operated in the basement of Cashin from the mid 1970s through the 1980s It was very successful in terms of pleasing listeners and providing engineering and DJ experience for hundreds of students 103 Athletics Edit The University of Massachusetts Minuteman playing with Michigan Wolverines in 2010 Main article UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen UMass is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA The university is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference while playing ice hockey in the Hockey East Association The football team joined the Mid American Conference MAC in order to play at Football Bowl Subdivision the sport s highest level with games played at Gillette Stadium in 2012 104 In March 2014 the MAC and UMass announced an agreement for the Minutemen football team to leave the conference after the 2015 season due to UMass declining an offer to become a full member of the conference In the agreement between the MAC and the university there was a contractual clause that had UMass playing in the MAC as a football only member for two more seasons if UMass declined a full membership offer UMass announced that it would look for a more suitable conference for the team 105 UMass Amherst plays most of its home games at the 17 000 seat McGuirk Stadium on campus UMass originally was known as the Aggies later the Statesmen then the Redmen In a response to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American themed mascots they changed their mascot in 1972 to the Minuteman based on the historical minuteman relationship with Massachusetts women s teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen UMass football has enjoyed various levels of success over the years As a founding member of the Yankee Conference Massachusetts won 17 Yankee Conference Championships appearing in one National Championship game during that timespan They fell to Florida A amp M in this inaugural Division I AA Championship 35 28 UMass success continued as they began competition in the Atlantic 10 Conference in 1997 They went on to win four more conference titles while playing in the A 10 and make two more appearances in the National Championship game winning it all in 1998 In 2006 the Minutemen took home the last A 10 title the A 10 handed off management of their football league to the Colonial Athletic Association after the season and made their most recent Championship game appearance Their most recent conference championship came in 2007 the inaugural season under the CAA name Some journalists who 106 consider Boston College the University of New Hampshire the University of Connecticut and the University of Rhode Island their biggest sports rivals Temple University has also been a strong rival in the Atlantic 10 but the rivalry came to an end when Temple moved all of its sports programs to the Big East Conference in 2013 citation needed The UMass Amherst Department of Athletics currently sponsors Men s Intercollegiate Baseball Basketball Cross Country Ice Hockey Football Lacrosse Soccer Swimming and Indoor and Outdoor Track amp Field They also sponsor Women s Intercollegiate Basketball Softball Cross Country Rowing Lacrosse Soccer Swimming Field Hockey Indoor and Outdoor Track amp Field and Tennis Club sports offered which are not also offered at the varsity level are Men s Wrestling Men s Rowing Men s Tennis Women s Ice Hockey Men s and Women s Rugby Men s and Women s Bicycle Racing and Men s and Women s Fencing Men s and Women s Downhill Skiing have been re certified as club sports following the April 2 2009 announcement of their discontinuation as varsity sports 107 2010 UMass Football Team at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium Notable alumni faculty and staff EditAlumni Edit Main pages List of University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni and Category University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Notable University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni include Russell Hulse PhD 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics Catherine Coleman PhD 1991 NASA astronaut Adelard Godbout 15th Premier of Quebec Gen Andrew Iosue BSc 1951 Commander Air Training Command LTG Brian Beaudreault 1983 Commander of II Marine Expeditionary Force LTG Jody Daniels MSc 1993 PhD 1997 Hon DSc 2019 34th Chief of Army Reserve LTG Robert Miller MBA 2006 24th Surgeon General of the United States Air Force and the United States Space Force 108 David Lowy BA 1983 Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Nemat Shafik BA 1983 20th President of Columbia University Zhou Qifeng 13th President of Peking University Hau Lung pin PhD 1983 Former Mayor of Taipei Jack Welch BSc 1957 Hon DSc 1982 Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric Steven Sinofsky Former President of Windows at Microsoft Anshuman Jain MBA 1985 Former co CEO and co Chairman of Deutsche Bank Rachael Rollins United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Becca Balint MA 2001 U S representative for Vermont s at large congressional district Betty Shabazz Civil rights advocate Natasha Trethewey U S Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Serena Williams four time Olympic Gold Medalist and 23 time Grand Slam winning tennis player Julius Erving Hall of Fame basketball player Stan Rosenberg 93rd President of the Massachusetts Senate Richard Gere Film actor and producer Bill Cosby Stand up comedian and actor Buffy Sainte Marie Singer songwriter and activist first indigenous person to receive an Academy Award Matthew Pottinger 32nd U S Deputy National Security Advisor Natalie Cole Grammy Award winning singer Black Francis Alternative rock musician frontman of Pixies Col Jason Fettig 28th Director of United States Marine BandThere are 243 628 University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni worldwide 109 Notable UMass Amherst alumni include Greg Landry Jeff Corwin Buffy Sainte Marie Taj Mahal Bill Paxton William Monahan Kenneth Feinberg Bill Cosby 110 Natalie Cole 111 Julius Dr J Erving Rick Pitino Bill Pullman Betty Shabazz Briana Scurry Jack Welch John F Smith Jr Jean Worthley Jeff Reardon Brandon Tory Mike Flanagan Serena Williams Lawrence Mestel and Richard Gere Faculty Edit Main pages List of University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty and Category University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Notable present and past University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty include Joseph Taylor Jr Vernon L Smith Biologist Lynn Margulis Ocean Vuong James Tate Max Roach Nancy Folbre Richard Lull Michael Mann John Olver LTG William M Wright Charles TottenNotable faculty have included Sheila Bair the former Chairman of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chuck Close celebrated photorealist Samuel R Delany author and critic Vincent Dethier pioneer physiologist Ted Hughes British poet laureate Max Roach considered one of the most important jazz drummers in history Lynn Margulis famed biologist Stephen Resnick and Richard D Wolff heterodox economists James Tate Pulitzer Prize winning poet and Robert Paul Wolff in both philosophy and African American studies Current faculty of note include poet Peter Gizzi T S Eliot Prize winning poet Ocean Vuong media critic Sut Jhally and feminist economist Nancy Folbre See also EditUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Food Science William P Brooks 1851 1938 professor eighth president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and second vice president of Sapporo Agricultural College Japan Campus of the University of Massachusetts AmherstExplanatory notes Edit The total number of enrolled students at Boston University is 34 589 as of the year 2020 Other consists of Multiracial Americans amp those who prefer to not say The percentage of students who received an income based federal Pell grant intended for low income students The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum References Edit UMass Amherst History of UMass Amherst Archived May 16 2006 at the Wayback Machine UMass Amherst Looks to 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