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University of Massachusetts Boston

September 05, 2023

The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a public research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus University of Massachusetts system.[5] UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States.[6]

University of Massachusetts Boston
TypePublic research university
Established1852; 171 years ago (1852) as Boston State College
1964 UMass Boston
Parent institution
UMass System
AccreditationNECHE
Academic affiliations
Endowment$126 million (2022)[1]
ChancellorMarcelo Suárez-Orozco
PresidentMarty Meehan
ProvostJoseph B. Berger
Academic staff
1,134 (2022)[2]
Students15,586[3]
Undergraduates12,221[3]
Postgraduates3,365[3]
Location
Dorchester, Boston
,
Massachusetts
,
United States

42°18′48″N 71°02′18″W / 42.313432°N 71.038445°W / 42.313432; -71.038445
CampusUrban, 120 acres (0.49 km2)
ColorsBlue and White[4]
   
NicknameBeacons
Sporting affiliations
MascotBobby the Beacon
Websitewww.umb.edu

While a majority of UMass Boston students are Massachusetts residents, international students and students from other states make up a significant portion of the student body.[7] It is a member of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities[8] and the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities.[9] It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[10]

History Edit

Origins (Pre-1964) Edit

The University of Massachusetts System dates back to the founding of Massachusetts Agricultural College under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in 1863. However, prior to the founding of UMass Boston, the Amherst campus was the only public, comprehensive university in the state.[11] Even as late as the 1950s, Massachusetts ranked at or near the bottom in public funding per capita for higher education, and proposals to expand the University of Massachusetts into Boston was opposed both by faculty and administrators at the Amherst campus and by the private colleges and universities in Boston.[12] In 1962, the 162nd Massachusetts General Court expanded the UMass System for the first time to Worcester, Massachusetts with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.[13] In 1963, UMass President John W. Lederle informed the General Court that more than 1,200 graduates of Boston area high schools qualified to attend the University of Massachusetts were denied admission to the Amherst campus due to lack of space, and despite opposition from the Amherst campus, endorsed expanding the UMass System with a commuter campus in Boston.[14] At the time, there were 12,000 freshman applications to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with only 2,600 slots, yet the majority of the applicants lived in the Greater Boston area.[15]

In 1964, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue and State Senator George V. Kenneally Jr. introduced a bill to establish a Boston campus for the UMass System, with Majority Whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H. Quinn co-sponsoring the House bill, and the Massachusetts AFL–CIO endorsing the legislation.[14] The bill was opposed by several private colleges and universities in the Boston area, including Northeastern University, Boston University, and Boston College (who argued that the state would be better off subsidizing the existing private institutions in the city), as well as by Boston State College, the only public institution of higher education in the city (who argued for expanding its campus on Huntington Avenue instead). However, the Huntington Avenue building of Boston State College could not be expanded to accommodate a 15,000-student campus, and the local news media and public opinion generally favored creating the new Boston campus for the UMass System.[16]

1964–1974: Park Square campus Edit

See also: Park Square (Boston)
 
Massachusetts House of Representatives Majority Whip Robert H. Quinn co-sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the House.
 
Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue co-sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the Senate.
 
Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody (1963–1965) signed the bill into law on June 18, 1964.
 
UMass Boston leased part of the Boston Park Plaza (then known as the Statler Hilton Boston) for faculty and departmental office space in the late 1960s, while in February 1966, the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the former headquarters of the Boston Gas Company (in the foreground) which the company had leased to the university in September 1965 for its inaugural semester.
 
Also in the late 1960s, UMass Boston leased the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets and converted it into the university's first library.
 
Boston Mayor John F. Collins (1960–1968) opposed the university's proposals to keep its campus in Downtown Boston and had the BRA propose locating the university campus permanently at Columbia Point.

On June 16, 1964, with a $200,000 appropriation,[17] the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston was passed by the 163rd Massachusetts General Court and was signed into law two days later by Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody.[15] UMass President John W. Lederle began recruiting freshmen students, faculty, and administrative staff for the fall semester of 1965 (with goals of 1,000 students and 80 faculty members), and appointed his assistant at the Amherst campus, John W. Ryan, as UMass Boston's first chancellor. Ryan recruited tenured faculty members from the Amherst campus to relocate and form the UMass Boston faculty, and appointed Amherst's history professor Paul A. Gagnon and Amherst's provost and biology professor Arthur Gentile to hire the humanities and natural science faculty members respectively.[17] One faculty member that made the move was historian Robert M. Berdahl (who later became chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, President of the University of Texas at Austin, and president of the Association of American Universities).

Gagnon, with the assistance of Harvard University sociologist David Riesman, also recruited junior faculty members through recommendations of graduate students by the department chairs of Ivy League and other prestigious private universities in the Boston area.[18] Serving as the new university's first provost,[19] Gagnon became the most important faculty member in defining the curriculum and academic focus of the university, saying in June 1965 that "The first aim of the University of Massachusetts at Boston must be to build a university in the ancient tradition of Western civilization ... Along with creating a university in the great Western tradition, we must make it public and urban in all that these words imply in 1965."[20]

Gagnon would be the principal architect of the university's attempt to create a Great Books program called the "Coordinated Freshman Year English-History Program",[21] which prompted criticism and opposition from younger faculty members in the English and History Departments (who wanted their students to have reading assignments that contained "more politically 'relevant' content"),[22] from faculty in the social and natural sciences (who felt their fields were being neglected), and students (many of whom were Vietnam War veterans or working-class single parents working one or two jobs to pay for school), and that eventually led to its requirements being diluted and the program ultimately dismantled by the end of the 1960s.[23]

Freshman classes started for 1,240 undergraduate students in September 1965 at a renovated building located at 100 Arlington Street in the Park Square area of Downtown Boston, formerly the headquarters of the Boston Gas Company (which had leased the building to the university).[24][25] Virtually the entire entering class were residents of Massachusetts, with the great majority living in the Greater Boston area and one-fourth living in the city of Boston itself.[26] By the fall of 1968, the number of applications to UMass Boston for the fall semester had risen from 2,500 for fall 1965 to 5,700,[27] and total enrollment had risen to 3,600.[28] In the late 1960s, UMass Boston students on average were 23 years old, typically white and male, working part- or full-time, and either married or living with others in an apartment. UMass Boston also reportedly had the largest population of Vietnam War veterans than any university in the United States (many of whom had been recently discharged), and the largest population of African American students of all universities in Massachusetts.[29]

In February 1966, the 164th Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the building at 100 Arlington Street.[30] Over the next three years, the university also leased the Sawyer Building on Stuart Street, the Salada Buildings on Columbus Avenue, a part of the Boston Statler Hotel for faculty and departmental office space, and the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets (which was converted into the university's library), while the university administration also had an arrangement with the Copley Square YMCA to provide students access to exercise equipment.[31] The student newspaper, The Mass Media, published its inaugural issue on November 16, 1966, and the Founding Day Convocation for the university was held December 10, 1966, at the Prudential Center in Boston.[32] In 1968, a group of students started the folk music radio station WUMB-FM.[33][34]

In the summer of 1968, inaugural Chancellor John W. Ryan resigned to return to his alma mater, Indiana University, in an administrative position, and was succeeded in October of that year by historian Francis L. Broderick (who was serving as a dean at Lawrence University at the time).[35] Broderick oversaw the reorganization of the university into separate colleges (College I and College II), along with the establishment of the College of Public and Community Service,[36] and presided over the university's first graduation ceremony on June 12, 1969 (where 500 of the original 1,240 students received diplomas).[35]

By early 1967, some younger professors were holding teach-ins and encouraging their male students to burn their draft cards in protest of "American corporate imperialism."[37] The Young Socialist Alliance and the Students for a Democratic Society both had chapters on campus, and in April 1969, the latter group rallied more than a hundred students protesting the decision to move the university campus to Columbia Point.[38][39] The following month, a student group called the "Afro-American Society", staged an occupation of summer school registration, demanding the immediate hiring of more black faculty members and the admission of more black students to the university.[40]

From March 5 to March 20 in 1970, a group of thirty students occupied the chancellor's office after a popular "radical" female professor in the Sociology Department was denied tenure, and denounced the university as "corrupt, racist, sexist and servile to an exploitative class of capitalist oppressors."[41][note 1][39][42] Following President Richard Nixon's announcement of the Vietnam War's Cambodian campaign on April 30, 1970, and the subsequent shooting of anti-war protestors at Kent State University on May 4, like hundreds of other universities across the United States, UMass Boston administration suspended regular business operations while the campus became consumed by protests (mostly organized by the campus chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War).[43]

However, no controversy was more contentious than the conflict over where UMass Boston would locate its campus permanently.[44] The conflict emerged in 1965, not long after the university was initially founded: UMass President John W. Lederle had insisted upon a campus inside the city limits of Boston, while Boston Mayor John F. Collins publicly asked Chancellor John W. Ryan not to consider a permanent site in Downtown Boston, as a disproportionate amount of the valuable real estate there was already owned by many colleges and other non-profit institutions exempt from the city government's property taxes.[30] In 1954, only one new private office building had appeared on the city skyline since 1929,[45] one in five of the city's housing units were classified as dilapidated or deteriorating and the city was ranked lowest among major cities in building starts, while the only growing industries in the city were government and universities (leading to a narrowing tax base) and the city already had a higher number of municipal employees per capita than any major city in the United States.[46]

In addition to Mayor Collins, the Boston business community, the Massachusetts General Court, WBZ radio, the editorial board of The Boston Globe, and residents of the South End were also opposed to a permanent downtown campus.[47][48] Nonetheless, when the university purchased the building at 100 Arlington Street in 1966, many faculty and students interpreted the transaction as a signal that the university intended to settle permanently in Park Square.[30] A proposal popular among students and faculty to build a high-rise academic building overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Copley Square was cancelled when the John Hancock Insurance Company purchased the land and built John Hancock Tower there instead.[49] Another proposal for a campus in the Highland Park area of Roxbury also met with opposition from residents.[50] Other proposals to locate the permanent campus near Fenway Park, or South Station and Chinatown, or on golf courses for sale in Newton, were considered but rejected by Chancellor Ryan due to insufficient space or commuting concerns.[48]

In 1967, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) published a study, titled An Urban Campus by the Sea,[51] which proposed building the campus on the Columbia Point peninsula. The site was a former landfill, adjacent to the largest and poorest public housing complex in New England,[52][53] and a mile from the MBTA's Columbia station. The proposal was deeply unpopular among the faculty and students; 1,500 of them subsequently organized a rally in November 1967 on Boston Common demanding a downtown location in Copley Square.[52] In April 1969, when the Students for a Democratic Society organized its opposition rally, the student leaders denounced the university as "a 'pawn' masking the Boston Redevelopment Authority's plan to remove poor people from Columbia Point" and that "the university is planning a prestigious dormitory school with high tuition which students from low- and moderate-income families–whom the university was designed to serve–will not be able to attend."[39]

Chancellor Ryan also opposed the Columbia Point proposal, who before he resigned in February 1968, made a counterproposal for a 15-acre campus south of where John Hancock Tower was being built that the BRA rejected.[52] Architectural consultants of the university also scouted land near North Station and adjacent to the Boston Garden that was immediately opposed both by the ownership of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation that owned the Boston Bruins (who threatened to move the team out of the city) and Boston Mayor Kevin White.[54] In August 1968, after Francis L. Broderick was appointed the university's chancellor, now Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H. Quinn, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Kevin B. Harrington, and State Senator George Kenneally all urged the UMass Board of Trustees to accept the Columbia Point proposal, while Chancellor Broderick asked the board to delay its decision at an October 1968 meeting by one month so that he might be able to deliver a final counterproposal (while another rally at the Massachusetts State House of 2,500 faculty and students still demanded a Copley Square or Park Square location).[55]

In November 1968, Chancellor Broderick proposed a scattered-site campus of office buildings situated along the MBTA's Green Line in the South End that would be jointly owned by the university and businesses while retaining the original Arlington Street building.[47][56] However, while the UMass Board of Trustees and UMass President John W. Lederle argued instead for a unified campus on Columbia Point, they allowed a task force an additional month to more fully study Broderick's proposal. In the end, after reviewing the task force's white paper at a meeting in December 1968, the UMass Board of Trustees voted 12 to 4 to accept the Columbia Point proposal.[57] In 1972, Chancellor Francis L. Broderick resigned, and was succeeded by Italian literature professor Carlo L. Golino (who had been serving as vice president of academic affairs at the University of California, Riverside) in 1973.[58][59] During Golino's tenure before the move to Columbia Point, the university began awarding its first master's degrees in English and mathematics.[60]

1974–1988: Columbia Point campus and Boston State College merger Edit

See also: Columbia Point, Boston; MBM scandal; and Boston State College
 
The Columbia Point public housing project (with the Healey Library visible in the background) from Carson Beach in 1977. On the beach itself, a racial conflict between residents of Columbia Point and South Boston for the use of Carson Beach and the L Street bath house.
 
Located on the UMass Boston campus, the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Built in 1883, it is the only remaining 19th century building on Columbia Point.
 
Opened in October 1979, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on Columbia Point next to UMass Boston.
 
In 1981, the Massachusetts state government announced that the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum would be built next to the JFK Presidential Library.
 
Italian literature scholar Carlo L. Golino served as the university's chancellor from 1973 to 1978.
 
The JFK/UMass station in April 2016. The MBTA renamed the stop in 1982 after it had been called Columbia Station from when it first opened in 1927.

On January 28, 1974, the university opened its new campus on the Columbia Point peninsula surrounded by Dorchester Bay.[61] Beginning in 1970, the construction of the Columbia Point campus was the largest public capital construction project in the history of Massachusetts (exceeded only later by the Big Dig).[62] The state government hired a single construction management firm, McKee-Berger-Mansueto (MBM), to supervise six other architectural firms and construction companies to complete the project by September 1973.[63] The construction had multiple delays: the Boston Edison Company had not finished its electrical work,[64] and because the site was a former landfill (that had only been closed since 1963), a concrete and brick substructure (where all of the campus mechanical systems would run conduits) undergirded by hundreds of driven piles needed to be constructed before the buildings, but pile driving released methane from the former landfill, requiring construction workers to halt production while each release of methane dispersed.[65]

The Columbia Point campus was originally composed of five buildings connected by a series of skyways on the second floors of the buildings: McCormack Hall, Wheatley Hall, the Science Center, the Healey Library (which was designed by Chicago modernist architect Harry Weese),[66] and the Quinn Administration Building.[67][68][69] To transport students from Columbia station, the MBTA concluded that constructing a skyway from the station to the campus would be too expensive, and the university administration set about planning a shuttle bus system, funded by parking fees.[63] Campus facilities would rise from the bottom of the substructure and the bottom of the substructure would provide entry to a parking garage with 1,600 spaces. Because the campus was surrounded on three sides by a bay, exposed to sea breeze and winter storms, the salt water in the atmosphere and the road salt carried from automobiles would eventually damage parts of the substructure beyond feasible and cost-effective repair.[68][70]

Because the university was underneath flight paths arriving at Logan International Airport, all of the original Columbia Point campus buildings were soundproofed, and because of this, the classroom and offices in the buildings were designed as interior spaces with no windows, and the entrance to every building faced inward onto the campus plaza. Due to the campus being uniformly built of brick and the campus positioned above the landscape, the campus became known as "The Fortress", "The Rock", or "The Prison" colloquially.[71][72] The buildings were rumored to have been designed by architects familiar with the architectural design of prisons (such as Weese, who designed the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center), but also designed so that the plaza could easily be occupied by the National Guard to suppress demonstrations and protests.[71] In 1974, the $350 million capital construction budget for erecting more buildings on the campus was frozen due to the 1973–1975 recession, halting any further expansion of the campus.[73][59]

In 1975, enabled by the move to Columbia Point, Chancellor Carlo L. Golino oversaw the opening of the College of Professional Studies (later renamed the College of Management),[74] and in 1976, supervised the merger of College I and College II into a single College of Arts and Sciences.[75] Golino would resign as chancellor in 1978,[59] was succeeded in the interim by Claire Van Ummersen (the university's associate vice chancellor of academic affairs),[19] and succeeded permanently in 1979 by Robert A. Corrigan, former arts and humanities provost at the University of Maryland.[76] Construction for the Clark Athletic Center (that included an ice hockey arena, swimming pool, and basketball courts) broke ground in 1978 and was completed in 1979.[77][78] In October 1979, a dedication ceremony was held for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum after its construction was completed on a 10-acre site adjacent to the university campus.[79] Two years later, the state government announced that it would construct a new building for the Massachusetts State Archives and Commonwealth Museum next to the campus and the JFK Library,[80] and on December 2, 1982, the MBTA renamed Columbia station as JFK/UMass station.[81]

In 1977, McKee-Berger-Mansueto, Inc. (MBM), the company contracted to supervise the construction of the campus, came under public scrutiny after its contract with the Commonwealth was criticized in a series of newspaper articles for being abnormally favorable towards MBM, and a special legislative committee (led by Amherst College President John William Ward) was formed to investigate the contract.[82] A scandal erupted after it was learned MBM paid Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Joseph DiCarlo and State Senator Ronald MacKenzie $40,000 in exchange for a favorable report from the committee. DiCarlo and MacKenzie were convicted of extortion.[83][84][85] Newspaper columnist Charles Pierce summarized the careless and negligent quality of MBM's construction projects unearthed by the Ward Commission's investigation as follows:

Besides the Worcester jail with the cells that did not lock, there was the auditorium at Boston State College in which the stage was not visible from a third of the seats and the library at Salem State College in which the walls were not sturdy enough to bear the weight of the books. At the UMass-Boston campus, ground zero of the scandal, school officials were forced to erect barricades to keep passerby from being brained by the bricks that kept falling off the side of the library. Unsurprisingly, a completely corrupt system had produced completely shoddy buildings that the taxpayers, already fleeced once, would have to pay to repair.[86]

In 1980, the 171st Massachusetts General Court voted to establish the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with the authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state, and in 1981, the board decided to merge UMass Boston and Boston State College by 1984.[87] Such a merger (including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as well) had been proposed in the state legislature in 1963 when UMass Boston was initially founded.[88] Though the 1981 merger had allowed both schools a three-year grace period to ease the transition, a large cut in the state's higher education budget forced the board of regents to require a "shotgun wedding" merger to happen by September 1981 (although the board did allow for it to be delayed until January of the following year).[89][90] Boston State College had been in existence since 1852, and in the 130 years of its existence, mostly had a reputation as a teacher's college, situated in between the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, with two of its other largest enrollments being in nursing and police administration.[91] These programs would transfer over to UMass Boston fully intact, and would form the basis of the College of Education, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Criminal Justice program in the Sociology Department respectively.[92][93]

In 1981, Boston State College enrolled roughly 6,000 students, and despite the Boston State College students having a similar demographic profile to UMass Boston students, many students expressed opposition to and disapproval of the merger.[94] Many of Boston State College's undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at UMass Boston were disbanded, and as fewer of the Boston State faculty had PhDs than the UMass Boston faculty did, the board of regents also decided to terminate the employment of 98 full-time faculty members, 275 part-time teachers, and 15 of the 35 administrators at Boston State College.[95] In the end, however, the merger boosted enrollment at UMass Boston by 38 percent in one year (from more than 8,000 in 60 areas of study in 1981 to more than 11,000 in 100 areas of study by 1983),[96][89] and as Boston State College had more graduate programs than UMass Boston did at the time of the merger,[97] most of Boston State College's graduate programs made the transition and tripled the graduate student enrollment at UMass Boston.[98] By 1995, graduate students accounted for 21 percent of the university's total enrollment, and in 2011, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences was the ninth largest and was ranked as the 50th best undergraduate nursing program in the United States (and third best in New England) by U.S. News & World Report.[99]

In 1988, Chancellor Robert A. Corrigan resigned.[100] Besides the opening of the Clark Athletic Center and the Boston State College merger, during his tenure, he oversaw the authorization of the university's first PhD program (in environmental science), the university radio station WUMB-FM receive an FM broadcasting license in 1981 (along with its first air date on September 19, 1982),[96][33][101] the opening of the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and the Urban Scholars program for talented Boston Public School students in 1983,[89][102][103] as well as the opening of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture in 1984.[104] The women's track and field team won the university's first NCAA Division III championship in 1985, and a student-run café, the "Wit's End Café", opened in Wheatley Hall in 1987 and would last for two decades.[102]

1988–2004: Penney and Gora Chancellorships Edit

 
Aerial view of the UMass Boston campus in September 1993.
 
Due to a recession in the early 1990s, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (1975–1979; 1983–1991) ordered the university to return appropriations multiple times to the state treasury in every fiscal year from 1989 to 1991.

In 1988, historian Sherry A. Penney succeeded Robert A. Corrigan as chancellor. Penney had been serving as chancellor of academic programs, policy, and planning for the State University of New York system. Her tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts. During the en masse failure of more than 1,000 of the more than 3,200 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995, and following a pair of stock market crashes in 1987 and 1989 and an oil price shock in 1990, the U.S. economy went into recession from July 1990 until March 1991. The unemployment rate in Massachusetts had increased from 2.4 percent in 1988 to 9.7 percent in 1992, leading to falling state revenue. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis responded by ordering all state agencies to cut their budgets in the 1989, 1990, and 1991 fiscal years (and sometimes multiple times during the same fiscal year), and return appropriations to the state treasury.[100] Chancellor Penney oversaw the university return funds to the state government 11 times during the first four years of her tenure.[105] In 1995, Dukakis would arrange for part of the remaining funds from his 1988 presidential campaign be used to support a public service student internship program at UMass Boston, and beginning in 2000, met with students in political science courses every year at the university along with former UMass System President and Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger.[106]

In response to the budget cuts, Chancellor Penney began initiating major fundraising efforts (including a five-year capital campaign target of $50 million between 1995 and 2000,[107] and a five-year master plan in 1999),[108] and despite the decline in state support, implemented multiple research programs, PhD programs, and oversaw a reorganization of the school's colleges.[100] In 1989, Chancellor Penney oversaw the opening of both the Urban Harbors Institute and The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, and later oversaw the separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into the College of Science and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts. In 1990, the university launched PhD programs in clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology. In 1993, the College of Public and Community Service established the Labor Resource Center and the College of Liberal Arts established the Institute for Asian American Studies, the College of Education began its partnership with The Mather School (the oldest public elementary school in the United States),[109] and the Boston College Program for Women and Government moved to UMass Boston.[110] Despite Chancellor Penney's efforts, many programs were consolidated or closed, such as the College of Education's undergraduate education degree.[111]

In 1994, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education classified UMass Boston as a Master's Comprehensive University I,[107] poet Lloyd Schwartz won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and in 1990 and 1998, art history professor Paul Hayes Tucker curated two exhibits at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of paintings by Claude Monet.[105][109] In 1997, Professor Tucker would also found the Arts on the Point sculpture park on the campus,[112][113][114] and the founder of the university radio station WUMB-FM also started the Boston Folk Festival.[115][34] By 1998, the university had four main research areas that accounted for three-quarters of the university's research funding: Environmental Studies, Psycho-Social Functioning of At-Risk Populations, Education, and Health and Social Welfare. In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston's designation to a Doctoral/Research University, Intensive, and UMass Boston now offered seven doctoral programs in public policy, computer science, nursing, and education, in addition to clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology.[107]

Each year of the 1990s saw an increase in the SAT scores of undergraduate applicants, the university gained campus chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta and the Golden Key International Honour Society, the undergraduate Honors Program expanded from 65 students into the Honors College with 400 students in 2013, and the university also had enrolled its first Fulbright scholars.[116] Between 1996 and 2000, the number of undergraduate STEM majors at the school increased by 20 percent, and in computer science alone enrollment increased by two-thirds, and biochemistry, earth and geographic sciences all by one-third. Enrollment steadily increased during Chancellor Penney's tenure to 12,482 total students and 2,866 graduate students by 2000, and the university went from one in twelve students who were minority or female in 1988 to one in three by 2000.[117] The percentage of faculty that was black rose from 13 percent in 1988 to 20 percent in 2000, and the percentage of faculty that was female rose from less than one-third in 1988 to 41 percent in 2000.[118]

On February 19, 1997, President Bill Clinton delivered an address on the campus (arranged in part by U.S. Representative Joe Moakley from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district),[119][120][121][122] and on October 3, 2000, the Clark Athletic Center hosted the first presidential debate between Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 United States presidential election.[119] After filing objections with the Federal Election Commission, political activist and Green Party nominee Ralph Nader attempted to enter the debate site twice but was blocked by the U.S. Secret Service both times.[123] The cancellation of two days of classes to create security for the debate resulted in a protest by UMass Boston students, faculty, and staff members at UMass System President William Bulger's office in Downtown Boston.[124][125]

In 2000, Chancellor Penney resigned to accept an endowed chair within the College of Management.[119] Except between 1995 and 1996 while Penney served as the interim UMass System President and the university's Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance Jean F. MacCormack served in her place, Penney had served as the UMass Boston Chancellor for nearly 12 years. She was succeeded in the interim in 2000 by David MacKenzie, and permanently in May 2001 by Jo Ann M. Gora, the provost of Old Dominion University.[108][19] During Gora's tenure, the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs became the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies in 2003, and the PhD program in green chemistry, the first in the world, was launched under the direction of chemist and UMass Boston alumnus John Warner in 2004.[126][127] Gora would resign as chancellor in 2004 to become President of Ball State University, and was succeeded in the interim by J. Keith Motley, the university's Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.[128] During Motley's interim tenure, the university established a partnership with the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in 2005.[129]

2004–2015: New campus center and 25-year master plan Edit

See also: Bayside Expo Center § UMass Boston acquisition
 
The current Campus Center opened in 2004 and was the first new facility constructed on the Columbia Point campus since the Clark Athletic Center opened in 1979.
 
First floor of the Campus Center in February 2011.
 
J. Keith Motley was the university's Chancellor from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2017. In December 2007, Motley proposed the university's 25-Year Master Plan to redevelop its campus to the UMass System Board of Trustees.
 
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (2007–2015) signed into law a higher education bond bill on August 7, 2008 with $200 million to support the university's 25-Year Master Plan.

On April 2, 2004, a new Campus Center next to Wheatley Hall was opened. Construction for the facility began on July 20, 2001, and was completed during the tenure of Chancellor Jo Ann M. Gora.[130][131] It became the new entrance for the campus and was the first building constructed since the Clark Athletic Center was completed in 1979.[132] The building was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built by the Suffolk Construction Company at a cost of $80 million.[133][130] Unlike the original Columbia Point campus buildings, which were uniformly built of brick and faced inward, the Campus Center was designed such that its glass front would look out onto Boston Harbor, and the offices, food court, event space, student clubs, and activities space gave the campus a center of cohesion that was often lacking in the older buildings.[134]

In 2005, Chancellor Gora was permanently succeeded by Michael F. Collins, the president and CEO of Caritas Christi Health Care.[128] On July 19, 2006, Chancellor Collins ordered the immediate and permanent closure of the parking garage underneath the main campus, causing a loss of 1,500 parking spaces.[135] Two days later, an article in The Boston Globe summarized the deterioration of the facility:

The University of Massachusetts at Boston has closed an underground parking garage that has been decaying for decades. ... Over the years, the garage has become a dreary labyrinth, with walls and floor so eroded from the salty environment that they look like a coral reef. Nets hang from the ceiling to catch fragments of falling cement, a problem linked to the use of low-quality concrete in the construction.[136][137]

Chunks of concrete had been falling from the garage ceiling since the 1990s, and when Chancellor Collins ordered the closure, 600 spaces had already been lost due to ongoing repairs and rerouting of passenger and vehicular traffic. Because of the salt water atmosphere and the road salt from vehicles, the steel reinforcing bars embedded in the campus substructure concrete walls and ceiling became severely degraded, and because all of the campus mechanical systems had run conduits through the substructure, many of those systems could not be repaired and the damage was causing outages of the computer, electrical, heat, and air-conditioning equipment. An engineering report indicated that to repair the garage such that it would be safe for parking would cost $150 million. On October 2, 2006, the university began the process of creating a master plan to renew the campus.[138] In 2010, a 385-pound section of the garage ceiling below Wheatley Hall fell.[139]

On June 2, 2006, U.S. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois addressed his commencement speech at UMass Boston to the graduating students. Among other topics, he discussed his keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.[140] In early 2007, Chancellor Collins resigned to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School,[141] and he was succeeded on July 1, 2007, by former interim chancellor J. Keith Motley, who became the university's first African American chancellor.[142] By December 14, 2007, Chancellor Motley presented a 25-year master plan to the UMass System Board of Trustees, who accepted the plan in full.[143] Included in the 25-year master plan was the proposal to erect the university's first residential facilities that would accommodate 2,000 students, but not with the intention of changing the character of the university from a commuter school to a residential school.[144]

Eight months later on August 7, 2008, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a higher education bond bill with $100 million directed towards the construction of a new integrated sciences complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the university's campus, a second $100 million directed towards constructing a general academic building, and the following week, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts announced that he would accelerate his plans to construct the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Columbia Point next to his brother's presidential library.[145][146] In 2009, the nearby Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure to a Florida-based real estate firm, LNR/CMAT, and on May 19, 2010, the university purchased the property to use as campus facilities and to recoup 1,300 parking spaces.[147][148] By 2013, with the construction of the EMK Institute underway on April 8, 2011,[149] the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex underway on June 8, 2011,[150] renovations to the Clark Athletic Center's gymnasium from March to December 2012,[151] construction for a second academic building (General Academic Building No. 1) underway on February 27, 2013,[152] and a utility corridor and roadway network project begun in the spring of 2013,[153] the university's campus became "a multi-site construction zone."[113]

In 2006, a report commissioned by the university on its areas of research strength and areas with opportunities for research, titled "Research Re-envisioned for the 21st Century: A Strategic Opportunity Assessment", was released.[154] In 2007, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences began the GoKids Boston program to counter childhood obesity,[155] and in 2008, the Graduate College of Education renamed itself the College of Education and Human Development.[156] In 2010, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston's designation a second time, now to a Doctoral/Research University with High Activity.[157][156] On September 26, 2011, a Strategic Planning Task Force chaired by university provost Winston E. Langley and convened by Chancellor Motley issued its final report "Fulfilling the Promise: A Blueprint for UMass Boston".[158][159][160] In 2012, biology professor Kamaljit S. Bawa won the Gunnerus Sustainability Award.[161][162][163]

In 2013, the university established its School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (the first of its kind in the world),[164][165] its University Honors Program as a separate Honors College,[164] and its School for the Environment and launched an interdisciplinary Nantucket Semester Program (on land donated to the UMass Board of Trustees in 1963 by a Nantucket summer resident that became the university's Nantucket Field Station in the 1970s).[166][167] In 2014, research activity at the university had climbed to $60 million,[164] and the university began work on its HarborWalk Improvements and Shoreline Stabilization project.[168] By the fall semester of 2014, total student enrollment had grown to 16,756 with 4,056 graduate students.[169] The number of doctoral students had increased from 230 in the fall of 2000 to 614 in the fall of 2014.[170]

2015–present: New buildings Edit

See also: Bayside Expo Center § Bay City development, Morrissey Boulevard § Flooding and maintenance, and Morrissey Boulevard § Biotechnology industry
 
UMass Boston and Morrissey Boulevard from the I-93/US-1/MA-3 concurrency in Dorchester in April 2014 with the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex nearing completion and the construction of University Hall underway.
 
The JFK Presidential Library from the Boston Harborwalk walkway paved by the university's Harborwalk Shoreline and Stabilization Project completed in 2015.
 
University Hall (opened in 2016), the Campus Center, and Wheatley Hall in May 2022.
 
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (2015–2023) included a $78 million appropriation to the 2018 state capital budget for repairs to the substructure parking garage in April 2017.
 
On February 10, 2020, University of California, Los Angeles Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was unanimously appointed as the university's new permanent Chancellor and he assumed the position the following August.

In 2014, UMass Boston celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and in 2015, the University of Massachusetts Press published the school's first history about its founding and growth, entitled UMass Boston at 50.[171] In 2015, the College of Management enrolled close to one-sixth of all students and more than half of the undergraduate students earning degrees in a STEM field were minority or female.[172] By 2015, UMass Boston students came from 140 different nations and spoke 90 different languages.[173] On January 26, 2015, the university opened its first new academic building since the Columbia Point campus was built, a research facility named the Integrated Sciences Complex.[174][175] The building cost $182 million to construct, was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm Goody Clancy, and was constructed by Walsh Brothers.[176]

On March 30, 2015, the dedication ceremony for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate was held and the institute opened to the public the next day.[177][178][179] On June 11, 2015, the university broke ground on construction for a new baseball field across University Drive West from the Clark Athletic Center, and was scheduled to be completed by December 1 of that year.[180] The construction was supported by a $2 million gift from the Yawkey Foundation, was built with the exact dimensions of Fenway Park, and was named for Boston College President J. Donald Monan, SJ.[181] On July 17, 2015, the university completed a project begun the previous summer to stabilize an eroded 800-foot segment of the Dorchester Bay shoreline and pave a new walkway along the Boston Harborwalk in between the JFK Presidential Library and the Harbor Point Apartments.[182] The project cost $2.8 million, placed 3,200 tons of stone along the shoreline (including a significant amount of granite unearthed by the Big Dig that was donated by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation), and also constructed new benches, lighting, gathering spaces, and an artwork display area alongside the walkway.[183]

On January 25, 2016, the university began a phased opening of its second new academic facility, University Hall.[184] The building cost $130 million to construct, was designed by the Boston-based Wilson Architects, and was constructed by the Gilbane Building Company.[185] The following month, the university announced that it would construct the first residential facilities in the university's history.[186][187] In September 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the first time in the university's history, tied at number 220.[188] In December 2016, the university broke ground on the 1,077-bed residential facilities located along University Drive North and West and one set back from Mount Vernon Street.[189] The following month, the university broke ground on a 1,400-space free-standing parking garage adjacent to the Integrated Sciences Complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the campus.[190] On March 3, 2017, former Bowdoin College president Barry Mills was appointed the university's deputy chancellor and chief operating officer. In this role, he oversaw the academic and research program and campus operations.[191]

On April 5, 2017, university officials announced that Chancellor J. Keith Motley would resign at the end of the academic calendar year on June 30, take a one-year sabbatical, and return as a tenured faculty member. UMass System President Marty Meehan stated Deputy Chancellor Mills would serve as interim chancellor "until [university] finances are stabilized and the university is positioned to attract a world-class chancellor through a global search",[192] specifically to address the university's 2017 operating budget deficit of $30 million.[193] In response to the appointment of Mills and Motley's resignation announcement, UMass Boston faculty publicly expressed concern that Motley was being scapegoated for the university's budget deficit while Boston City Councilors Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley and Massachusetts State Representatives Linda Dorcena Forry and Russell Holmes called upon System President Meehan to reject Motley's resignation.[194][195][196] On April 8, 2017, at a UMass System Board of Trustees meeting, UMass Boston faculty and students protested decisions by university administration to cut offerings of courses (many required for graduation) in the upcoming summer semester,[197] as well as other programs and to make expense adjustments which reduced the deficit to approximately $6 million or $7 million.[198] On April 24, 2017, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that the state government capital budget for fiscal year 2018 would include $78 million towards repairs for fixing the substructure parking garage.[199]

On July 1, 2017, Barry Mills became interim chancellor after Keith Motley's resignation.[192][200] In September 2017, for the second consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking, and elevated the school in the rankings to a tie at number 202,[201] while a coalition of UMass Boston administrative staff, faculty, and students formed in the same month (called the "Coalition to Save UMB") and issued a report authored by faculty calling on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts General Court to increase state funding to assist the university to service its debt from its campus renewal construction projects and increase capital investments for the university.[202][203] In November 2017, an audit commissioned by UMass System President Marty Meehan and conducted by KPMG was presented to the UMass System Board of Trustees that found that faulty record keeping, a lack of discipline in its budgeting process, and a failure on the part of UMass Boston administration to appreciate the cost of the campus renewal construction projects on the university's operating budget led to the university's $30 million budget deficit,[204] and in the same month, the university laid-off 36 employees after laying off about 100 non-tenure track faculty earlier in the year.[205][202]

In January 2018, the UMass Building Authority put the university's Bayside Expo Center property up for sale.[206] In April 2018, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mount Ida College administrators announced that the former school would acquire the latter's campus in Newton after the latter college's closure.[207] The acquisition was immediately opposed by UMass Boston faculty and students due to inadequate consultation with the Boston campus faculty, the Boston campus' budget deficit, and that because of the proximity of the Mount Ida campus to the Boston campus, the faculty contended that the new campus would compete with the Boston campus.[208][209] As of April 2018, the UMass Boston campus remained the sole campus in the UMass system with a majority-minority enrollment.[208] In May 2018, following the approval of the sale by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey,[210] the UMass Boston Faculty Council passed a motion of no confidence in UMass System President Marty Meehan and the UMass System Board of Trustees.[211] In the same month, 10 days after three finalists for the UMass Boston chancellor position were named,[212] on May 21, 2018, all three finalists withdrew from consideration after faculty members questioned the qualifications of the candidates.[213]

On June 20, 2018, UMass System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Katherine Newman was appointed as the university's interim chancellor by the UMass System Board of Trustees effective July 1, 2018.[214] In September 2018, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the third consecutive year (and further elevated the school to a tie at number 191),[215] students moved into UMass Boston's first dormitory,[216] and the university opened the free-standing parking garage adjacent to the Integrated Sciences Complex.[217] The residence halls project cost $120 million to construct, was led by Capstone Development Partners, built by Shawmut Construction, and designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects.[218] The garage project cost $69 million to construct, was managed by Skanska, built by the Suffolk Construction Company, and designed by Fennick McCredie Architecture.[217][219]

In October 2018, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced a comprehensive climate change adaptation proposal to protect the Boston Harbor coastline from flooding.[220] In February 2019, university campus employees protested an administration decision to increase the daily parking fee from $6 to $15 to cover the costs of the garage operation and other expenses.[221] In the same month, the UMass System Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 99-year final lease agreement for the Bayside Expo Center with Accordia Partners for $192 million to $235 million.[222][223] During the 2018–2019 academic year, UMass Boston served 650 military veterans, managed $4 million in federal G.I. benefits, and was ranked by multiple publications as being among the best universities in the United States for veteran students.[224]

In May 2019, the Pioneer Institute released a white paper co-authored by former Massachusetts State Representative Gregory W. Sullivan (who also served as the Massachusetts Inspector General) that reviewed records obtained from the UMass System Controller's Office (as well as other publicly available documents) that concluded that Chancellor Keith Motley and other UMass Boston administrators were scapegoated for the 2017 fiscal year $30 million budget deficit and that instead the approval by the System Board of Trustees of an accelerated 5-year capital spending plan in December 2014 without assuring that capital reserves would be made available to pay for the plan, as well as an error to a 5-year campus reserve ratio estimate prepared by the UMass Central Budget Office and presented to the System Board of Trustees in April 2016, was the cause of the $26 million in budget reductions implemented by interim Chancellor Barry Mills and that the reductions were made at the direction of the UMass Central Office.[225][226]

Additionally, the white paper states that KPMG's 2017 audit was not conducted in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards or reported in accordance with auditing standards prescribed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and that the purchase of Mount Ida College in April 2018 was conducted by a wire transfer from the UMass System for $75 million without being included on the previously approved university capital plan at the time the UMass Central Office ordered the budget reductions rather than UMass Amherst purchasing the Mount Ida campus with loanable funds to be repaid with interest (and in contrast to how the transaction was described in a press statement issued by Meehan's office).[225][227] The following month, interim Chancellor Katherine Newman issued a press statement disputing the findings of the white paper.[228]

In September 2019, the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President addressed the UMass System Board of Trustees to protest the potential offering of equivalent programs at the Mount Ida campus that are already offered at the Boston campus.[229] The following December, the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President presented the board with a petition from the Boston campus faculty reiterating their concerns about the Mount Ida campus and requesting more input into its planning.[230] Also in 2019, the $164 million project to develop a new utility corridor and roadway network led by BVH Integrated Services, Inc. and built by Bond Brothers was completed.[153] In January 2020, a $45 million project managed by Hill International, designed by CannonDesign, and built by Consigli Construction to renovate Wheatley and McCormack Halls, the Quinn Administration Building, and the Healey Library to relocate programs from the original Science Center (to facilitate its demolition) was completed.[231][232]

In February 2020, University of California, Los Angeles Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was unanimously appointed as the new permanent chancellor of the university succeeding Katharine Newman,[233] and Suárez-Orozco assumed the position on August 1, 2020.[234] In October 2020, the Walsh administration released a 174-page climate change adaptation report for the Boston Harbor coastline in Dorchester with a section on Columbia Point and Morrissey Boulevard.[235][236] In September 2021, the UMass System Board of Trustees Chair announced that a $15 million endowment would be established for the UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences as part of a $50 million personal donation to the UMass System (the largest in its history) by the System Board of Trustees Chair and his wife.[237] In January 2023, the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences received $3 million in federal funding for a home care digital and simulation lab.[238] In February 2023, Chancellor Suárez-Orozco stated that the repairs to the substructure parking garage were complete in an interview with the Dorchester Reporter.[139] In July 2023, UMass Boston and Mass General Brigham announced an agreement to provide $20 million in funding for a workforce pipeline program in the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences.[239]

Campus Edit

 
UMB shuttle bus with direct service to the Campus Center at JFK/UMass station in January 2019.
 
The Science Center was one of the original Columbia Point campus buildings opened in 1974. Demolished in 2020.
 
Wheatley Hall is also one of the original Columbia Point campus buildings opened in 1974. Named for poet Phillis Wheatley.
 
The UMass Boston campus from Squantum Point Park in Quincy in June 2008. The brick building in the foreground is Wheatley Hall and the white building to its right is the Campus Center.
 
The UMass Boston campus in April 2009 from the Morrissey Boulevard entrance. From left to right, the buildings are the Quinn Administration Building, the Healey Library, and McCormack Hall.

UMass Boston is located off Interstate 93 and within one mile of the JFK/UMass MBTA Station on the Red Line and the Old Colony Lines of the Commuter Rail.[240] A shuttle is available from the MBTA station to campus.

Columbia Point buildings Edit

Off-site locations Edit

UMass Boston's Institute for New England Native American Studies and Institute for Community Inclusion (UMass Boston's joint program with Boston Children's Hospital that is part of the national Association of University Centers on Disabilities)[250] have their main offices on the fourth floor of the Bayside Office Center at 150 Mount Vernon Street,[251][252] which is adjacent to the former Bayside Expo Center and down the street from the main campus.[253] UMass Boston's Early Learning Center that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children is located at 2 Harbor Point Boulevard in the Harbor Point Apartments complex adjacent to the campus.[254][253] UMass Boston's Biology Department and School for the Environment also have a field station on Nantucket.[255][256]

Future campus development Edit

In December 2009, a report prepared for the state government on the 25-year master plan was released, outlining future campus development and construction projects, which included the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex and University Hall, as well as the improvements to the Boston HarborWalk.[257] Projects include:

  • A $137 million project managed by Hill International and designed by NBBJ to demolish the original Science Center, the university swimming pool building, the majority of the campus substructure and plaza adjoining those facilities, and to construct a campus quadrangle and 300-space parking lot in their place, which began in July 2020,[258] and is expected to be completed by the 2022–2023 winter;[232]
  • A second general-purpose academic building (General Academic Building No. 2), which received $100 million in state funding in 2012 and that is to be built next to Wheatley Hall in between University Drives South and East and the Campus Center bus stop;[259][260][261]
  • A project to restore the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex and to construct a mixed-use facility on an adjacent 10-acre site for which the UMass Building Authority issued a request for information in January 2020,[262] received eight proposals in response by the following September,[263] and issued a request for proposal in July 2021.[264]

Academics Edit

Distribution of UMass Boston undergraduate student body by college (2017–2018)[265][266]
College Undergraduate Major Bachelor's Degrees Conferred
Liberal Arts 4,845 (39.12%) 1,130 (42.40%)
Science & Mathematics 3,252 (26.26%) 382 (14.33%)
Management 2,066 (16.68%) 528 (19.81%)
Nursing & Health Sciences 1,642 (13.26%) 476 (17.86%)
Education & Human Development 260 (2.10%) 71 (2.66%)
School for the Environment 258 (2.08%) 66 (2.48%)
Advancing & Professional Studies 51 (0.41%) 6 (0.23%)
Public & Community Service 12 (0.10%) 4 (0.15%)
University Totals 12,386 (100.00%) 2,665 (100.00%)

UMass Boston has a graduation rate of 49% and an annual retention rate of 76%.[267] The university confers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and also operates certificate programs and a corporate, continuing, and distance learning program.

There are eleven schools and colleges at UMass Boston: the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, School for the Environment, College of Management, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, College of Public and Community Service, College of Education and Human Development, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, Honors College, and College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS).

The university is a member of the Urban 13 universities, alongside schools like Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh. The university maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations, a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China.[268][269]

In the 2017–2018 academic year, the five most popular majors at the university were Management, Biology, Psychology, Exercise and Health Sciences, and Nursing. Within the College of Liberal Arts, the five most popular majors were Psychology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Communication Studies, and English. Within the College of Science and Mathematics, the five most popular majors were Biology, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering. Within the College of Management, the five most popular concentrations were Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Information Technology, and International Management.[265] The five most popular minors at the university were Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Criminal Justice, and English (tied with Biology).[277]

Accreditation Edit

UMass Boston is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.[278] Additionally, the College of Management is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB),[279] and the College of Nursing and Health Services hold accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing. The Family Therapy Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Marital and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE).

Faculty Edit

UMass Boston faculty by tenure status and college (2015–2016)[280]
College Total[note 2] Part-Time[note 3] Non-Tenure Track[note 4] Tenured/Tenure-Track[note 5]
Liberal Arts 489 (39.34%) 174 (35.58%) 102 (20.86%) 213 (43.56%)
Science & Mathematics 172 (13.84%) 46 (26.74%) 36 (20.93%) 90 (52.33%)
Nursing & Health Sciences 142 (11.42%) 92 (64.79%) 23 (16.20%) 27 (19.01%)
Education & Human Development 123 (9.90%) 68 (55.28%) 9 (7.32%) 46 (37.40%)
Management 119 (9.57%) 37 (31.09%) 21 (17.65%) 61 (51.26%)
McCormack Graduate School 56 (4.51%) 21 (37.50%) 6 (10.71%) 29 (51.79%)
Advancing & Professional Studies 51 (4.10%) 45 (88.24%) 6 (11.76%) 0 (0.00%)
Global Inclusion & Social Development 28 (2.25%) 19 (67.86%) 0 (0.00%) 9 (32.14%)
School for the Environment 23 (1.85%) 6 (26.09%) 3 (13.04%) 14 (60.87%)
Public & Community Service 16 (1.29%) 4 (25.00%) 0 (0.00%) 12 (75.00%)
University Totals[note 6] 1,243 (100.00%) 527 (42.39%) 210 (16.89%) 506 (40.71%)

In 2016, UMass Boston's faculty of 1,243 consisted of 182 tenure-track and 210 non-tenure-track professors.[280] 96 percent of the faculty held the highest degree in their fields and the student-teacher ratio was 16:1.[281][282][283] It includes poet Lloyd Schwartz (who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994 and co-edited the Library of America's Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters in 2008),[143] and Jill McDonough,[284] translator and Slavic philologist Diana Lewis Burgin,[285] linguist Donaldo Macedo,[286] author Padraig O'Malley,[287] feminist scholar Carol Cohn,[288] economists Julie A. Nelson and Randy Albelda,[289][290] philosophers Lynne Tirrell and Lawrence Blum,[291][292] political scientists Leila Farsakh and Thomas Ferguson,[293][294] psychologist Sharon Lamb,[295] Monet expert Paul Hayes Tucker,[296] biologist Kamaljit S. Bawa,[297] and physicist Benjamin Mollow, discoverer of the Mollow triplet.[298]

Former faculty members include biblical scholar Richard A. Horsley,[299] chemist John Warner,[300] evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden,[301] feminist writers Beverly Smith and Christina Hoff Sommers,[302][303] politician Mary B. Newman (namesake of the Mary B. Newman Award for Academic Excellence),[304] historians Edward Berkowitz,[305][306] James Green,[307] Peter Linebaugh,[308] William Andrew Moffett, Mark Peattie,[309][310] and James Turner,[311][312] literary scholar Carlo L. Golino (who served as the university's chancellor from 1973 to 1978),[19][313] mathematicians Amir Aczel,[314] Victor S. Miller, and Robert Thomas Seeley,[315][316] computer scientist Patrick O'Neil,[317] neurologist M. V. Padma Srivastava,[318] novelists Jaime Clarke,[319] Elizabeth Searle,[320] and Melanie Rae Thon,[321] philosopher Jane Roland Martin,[322] poets Martha Collins and Sabra Loomis,[323][324] political scientists Jalal Alamgir and Kent John Chabotar,[325][326] clinical psychologist David Lisak,[327][328] social psychologist Melanie Joy,[329] and sociologists Benjamin Bolger and Robert Dentler.[330]

Institutes and centers Edit

The following free-standing institutes and centers are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.[331]

The following university-wide institutes and centers are operationally managed by collective leadership teams appointed by the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.[331]

  • Center of Science and Mathematics in Context[342]
  • Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy (a collaborative venture with the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center)[343]
  • Confucius Institute[344]
  • Developmental Sciences Research Center
  • Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation[345]
  • Institute for International and Comparative Education[346]
  • Sustainable Solutions Lab[347]

The following institutes and centers are administered by their college or department.[331]

Athletics Edit

Intercollegiate athletics, intramurals, and recreation for the students, staff, and faculty are the primary programs of the UMass Boston Department of Athletics. The department offers 18 varsity sports and is a member of the NCAA's Division III. UMass Boston, known by their nickname: the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and ECAC East Ice Hockey. The Beacons have been named All-Americans 93 times in seven sports. The women's indoor and outdoor track & field teams have won four NCAA team championships and 38 NCAA individual championships.[379] In the years 1999 through 2006 the National Consortium for Academics and Sports named the Department of Athletics at UMass Boston first in the country for community service.

Student activities Edit

UMass Boston's independent, student run and financed newspaper is The Mass Media. Other student publications include the yearbook,[380] Watermark[381] arts and literary magazine, and The Beacon monthly humor magazine. UMass Boston also owns and operates WUMB-FM (91.9), a 24-hour, public, noncommercial radio station that broadcasts folk music programs and produces the award-winning public and cultural affairs program, Commonwealth Journal.[382][383][384]

National student societies or professional organizations with active local or student chapters at UMass Boston include Alpha Lambda Delta,[385][386] the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,[387][388] College Democrats of America,[389][390] Delta Sigma Pi,[391][392][393] Free the Children,[394][395] the Golden Key International Honour Society,[396][397][398] the National Student Nurses' Association,[399][400] Phi Delta Epsilon,[401][394][402] the Public Interest Research Group,[403][404] the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science,[405][406] the Society of Physics Students,[394][407] and Young Americans for Liberty.[408][409] The American Chemical Society had a student chapter at UMass Boston, but as of the Fall 2016 semester it is inactive.[394][410][note 7][411][412]

Notable alumni Edit

See also: Category:University of Massachusetts Boston alumni

Notes Edit

  1. ^ Such activism led Chancellor Broderick to approve the formation of a task force led by sociology professor James Blackwell – the university's only tenured African American faculty member – and English professor Mary Anne Ferguson that recommended the hiring of a university affirmative action officer to ensure the equal consideration of minority and woman faculty candidates, and by the mid-1970s, for the UMass Boston Sociology Department to have one-third of its members be black and 40 percent be women – higher ratios than were typical of a university that was neither historically black nor a women's college. Blackwell and Ferguson would go on to play leading roles in establishing the Black and Women's Studies Departments as well.
  2. ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of the total number of faculty members in a college relative to the number of faculty members in the university as a whole.
  3. ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of part-time faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college.
  4. ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of non-tenure track faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college.
  5. ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of tenured or tenure-track faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college.
  6. ^ The percentages in this row are the ratios of the total numbers of faculty members in each column's category relative to the number of faculty members in the university as a whole.
  7. ^ However, the American Chemical Society still certifies the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree at UMass Boston.

References Edit

Footnotes Edit

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  12. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 4.
  13. ^ a b Feldberg 2015, p. 5.
  14. ^ a b Feldberg 2015, p. 8.
  15. ^ a b Feldberg 2015, p. 10.
  16. ^ Feldberg 2015, pp. 9–10.
  17. ^ a b Feldberg 2015, p. 15.
  18. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 17.
  19. ^ a b c d "Chancellors & Provosts (1965-Present) – University of Massachusetts Boston". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
  20. ^ Feldberg 2015, pp. 29–36.
  21. ^ Feldberg 2015, pp. 36–37.
  22. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 40.
  23. ^ Feldberg 2015, pp. 38–45.
  24. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 18.
  25. ^ Feldberg 2015, pp. 20–21.
  26. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 24.
  27. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 34.
  28. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 27.
  29. ^ Feldberg 2015, pp. 50–52.
  30. ^ a b c Feldberg 2015, p. 73.
  31. ^ Feldberg 2015, p. 49.
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This article s lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article October 2018 The University of Massachusetts Boston stylized as UMass Boston is a public research university in Boston Massachusetts United States It is the only public research university in Boston and the third largest campus in the five campus University of Massachusetts system 5 UMass Boston is the third most diverse university in the United States 6 University of Massachusetts BostonTypePublic research universityEstablished1852 171 years ago 1852 as Boston State College1964 UMass BostonParent institutionUMass SystemAccreditationNECHEAcademic affiliationsCUMUGCUUSUEndowment 126 million 2022 1 ChancellorMarcelo Suarez OrozcoPresidentMarty MeehanProvostJoseph B BergerAcademic staff1 134 2022 2 Students15 586 3 Undergraduates12 221 3 Postgraduates3 365 3 LocationDorchester Boston Massachusetts United States42 18 48 N 71 02 18 W 42 313432 N 71 038445 W 42 313432 71 038445CampusUrban 120 acres 0 49 km2 ColorsBlue and White 4 NicknameBeaconsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division III Little EastNEHCNEISAMascotBobby the BeaconWebsitewww wbr umb wbr eduWhile a majority of UMass Boston students are Massachusetts residents international students and students from other states make up a significant portion of the student body 7 It is a member of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities 8 and the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities 9 It is classified among R2 Doctoral Universities High research activity 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins Pre 1964 1 2 1964 1974 Park Square campus 1 3 1974 1988 Columbia Point campus and Boston State College merger 1 4 1988 2004 Penney and Gora Chancellorships 1 5 2004 2015 New campus center and 25 year master plan 1 6 2015 present New buildings 2 Campus 2 1 Columbia Point buildings 2 2 Off site locations 2 3 Future campus development 3 Academics 3 1 Accreditation 3 2 Faculty 4 Institutes and centers 5 Athletics 6 Student activities 7 Notable alumni 8 Notes 9 References 9 1 Footnotes 9 2 Bibliography 10 External linksHistory EditThis section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably Please consider splitting content into sub articles condensing it or adding subheadings Please discuss this issue on the article s talk page August 2023 Origins Pre 1964 Edit The University of Massachusetts System dates back to the founding of Massachusetts Agricultural College under the Morrill Land Grant Acts in 1863 However prior to the founding of UMass Boston the Amherst campus was the only public comprehensive university in the state 11 Even as late as the 1950s Massachusetts ranked at or near the bottom in public funding per capita for higher education and proposals to expand the University of Massachusetts into Boston was opposed both by faculty and administrators at the Amherst campus and by the private colleges and universities in Boston 12 In 1962 the 162nd Massachusetts General Court expanded the UMass System for the first time to Worcester Massachusetts with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School 13 In 1963 UMass President John W Lederle informed the General Court that more than 1 200 graduates of Boston area high schools qualified to attend the University of Massachusetts were denied admission to the Amherst campus due to lack of space and despite opposition from the Amherst campus endorsed expanding the UMass System with a commuter campus in Boston 14 At the time there were 12 000 freshman applications to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with only 2 600 slots yet the majority of the applicants lived in the Greater Boston area 15 In 1964 Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A Donahue and State Senator George V Kenneally Jr introduced a bill to establish a Boston campus for the UMass System with Majority Whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H Quinn co sponsoring the House bill and the Massachusetts AFL CIO endorsing the legislation 14 The bill was opposed by several private colleges and universities in the Boston area including Northeastern University Boston University and Boston College who argued that the state would be better off subsidizing the existing private institutions in the city as well as by Boston State College the only public institution of higher education in the city who argued for expanding its campus on Huntington Avenue instead However the Huntington Avenue building of Boston State College could not be expanded to accommodate a 15 000 student campus and the local news media and public opinion generally favored creating the new Boston campus for the UMass System 16 1964 1974 Park Square campus Edit See also Park Square Boston nbsp Massachusetts House of Representatives Majority Whip Robert H Quinn co sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the House nbsp Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A Donahue co sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the Senate nbsp Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody 1963 1965 signed the bill into law on June 18 1964 nbsp UMass Boston leased part of the Boston Park Plaza then known as the Statler Hilton Boston for faculty and departmental office space in the late 1960s while in February 1966 the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the former headquarters of the Boston Gas Company in the foreground which the company had leased to the university in September 1965 for its inaugural semester nbsp Also in the late 1960s UMass Boston leased the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets and converted it into the university s first library nbsp Boston Mayor John F Collins 1960 1968 opposed the university s proposals to keep its campus in Downtown Boston and had the BRA propose locating the university campus permanently at Columbia Point On June 16 1964 with a 200 000 appropriation 17 the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston was passed by the 163rd Massachusetts General Court and was signed into law two days later by Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody 15 UMass President John W Lederle began recruiting freshmen students faculty and administrative staff for the fall semester of 1965 with goals of 1 000 students and 80 faculty members and appointed his assistant at the Amherst campus John W Ryan as UMass Boston s first chancellor Ryan recruited tenured faculty members from the Amherst campus to relocate and form the UMass Boston faculty and appointed Amherst s history professor Paul A Gagnon and Amherst s provost and biology professor Arthur Gentile to hire the humanities and natural science faculty members respectively 17 One faculty member that made the move was historian Robert M Berdahl who later became chancellor of the University of California Berkeley President of the University of Texas at Austin and president of the Association of American Universities Gagnon with the assistance of Harvard University sociologist David Riesman also recruited junior faculty members through recommendations of graduate students by the department chairs of Ivy League and other prestigious private universities in the Boston area 18 Serving as the new university s first provost 19 Gagnon became the most important faculty member in defining the curriculum and academic focus of the university saying in June 1965 that The first aim of the University of Massachusetts at Boston must be to build a university in the ancient tradition of Western civilization Along with creating a university in the great Western tradition we must make it public and urban in all that these words imply in 1965 20 Gagnon would be the principal architect of the university s attempt to create a Great Books program called the Coordinated Freshman Year English History Program 21 which prompted criticism and opposition from younger faculty members in the English and History Departments who wanted their students to have reading assignments that contained more politically relevant content 22 from faculty in the social and natural sciences who felt their fields were being neglected and students many of whom were Vietnam War veterans or working class single parents working one or two jobs to pay for school and that eventually led to its requirements being diluted and the program ultimately dismantled by the end of the 1960s 23 Freshman classes started for 1 240 undergraduate students in September 1965 at a renovated building located at 100 Arlington Street in the Park Square area of Downtown Boston formerly the headquarters of the Boston Gas Company which had leased the building to the university 24 25 Virtually the entire entering class were residents of Massachusetts with the great majority living in the Greater Boston area and one fourth living in the city of Boston itself 26 By the fall of 1968 the number of applications to UMass Boston for the fall semester had risen from 2 500 for fall 1965 to 5 700 27 and total enrollment had risen to 3 600 28 In the late 1960s UMass Boston students on average were 23 years old typically white and male working part or full time and either married or living with others in an apartment UMass Boston also reportedly had the largest population of Vietnam War veterans than any university in the United States many of whom had been recently discharged and the largest population of African American students of all universities in Massachusetts 29 In February 1966 the 164th Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the building at 100 Arlington Street 30 Over the next three years the university also leased the Sawyer Building on Stuart Street the Salada Buildings on Columbus Avenue a part of the Boston Statler Hotel for faculty and departmental office space and the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets which was converted into the university s library while the university administration also had an arrangement with the Copley Square YMCA to provide students access to exercise equipment 31 The student newspaper The Mass Media published its inaugural issue on November 16 1966 and the Founding Day Convocation for the university was held December 10 1966 at the Prudential Center in Boston 32 In 1968 a group of students started the folk music radio station WUMB FM 33 34 In the summer of 1968 inaugural Chancellor John W Ryan resigned to return to his alma mater Indiana University in an administrative position and was succeeded in October of that year by historian Francis L Broderick who was serving as a dean at Lawrence University at the time 35 Broderick oversaw the reorganization of the university into separate colleges College I and College II along with the establishment of the College of Public and Community Service 36 and presided over the university s first graduation ceremony on June 12 1969 where 500 of the original 1 240 students received diplomas 35 By early 1967 some younger professors were holding teach ins and encouraging their male students to burn their draft cards in protest of American corporate imperialism 37 The Young Socialist Alliance and the Students for a Democratic Society both had chapters on campus and in April 1969 the latter group rallied more than a hundred students protesting the decision to move the university campus to Columbia Point 38 39 The following month a student group called the Afro American Society staged an occupation of summer school registration demanding the immediate hiring of more black faculty members and the admission of more black students to the university 40 From March 5 to March 20 in 1970 a group of thirty students occupied the chancellor s office after a popular radical female professor in the Sociology Department was denied tenure and denounced the university as corrupt racist sexist and servile to an exploitative class of capitalist oppressors 41 note 1 39 42 Following President Richard Nixon s announcement of the Vietnam War s Cambodian campaign on April 30 1970 and the subsequent shooting of anti war protestors at Kent State University on May 4 like hundreds of other universities across the United States UMass Boston administration suspended regular business operations while the campus became consumed by protests mostly organized by the campus chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War 43 However no controversy was more contentious than the conflict over where UMass Boston would locate its campus permanently 44 The conflict emerged in 1965 not long after the university was initially founded UMass President John W Lederle had insisted upon a campus inside the city limits of Boston while Boston Mayor John F Collins publicly asked Chancellor John W Ryan not to consider a permanent site in Downtown Boston as a disproportionate amount of the valuable real estate there was already owned by many colleges and other non profit institutions exempt from the city government s property taxes 30 In 1954 only one new private office building had appeared on the city skyline since 1929 45 one in five of the city s housing units were classified as dilapidated or deteriorating and the city was ranked lowest among major cities in building starts while the only growing industries in the city were government and universities leading to a narrowing tax base and the city already had a higher number of municipal employees per capita than any major city in the United States 46 In addition to Mayor Collins the Boston business community the Massachusetts General Court WBZ radio the editorial board of The Boston Globe and residents of the South End were also opposed to a permanent downtown campus 47 48 Nonetheless when the university purchased the building at 100 Arlington Street in 1966 many faculty and students interpreted the transaction as a signal that the university intended to settle permanently in Park Square 30 A proposal popular among students and faculty to build a high rise academic building overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Copley Square was cancelled when the John Hancock Insurance Company purchased the land and built John Hancock Tower there instead 49 Another proposal for a campus in the Highland Park area of Roxbury also met with opposition from residents 50 Other proposals to locate the permanent campus near Fenway Park or South Station and Chinatown or on golf courses for sale in Newton were considered but rejected by Chancellor Ryan due to insufficient space or commuting concerns 48 In 1967 the Boston Redevelopment Authority BRA published a study titled An Urban Campus by the Sea 51 which proposed building the campus on the Columbia Point peninsula The site was a former landfill adjacent to the largest and poorest public housing complex in New England 52 53 and a mile from the MBTA s Columbia station The proposal was deeply unpopular among the faculty and students 1 500 of them subsequently organized a rally in November 1967 on Boston Common demanding a downtown location in Copley Square 52 In April 1969 when the Students for a Democratic Society organized its opposition rally the student leaders denounced the university as a pawn masking the Boston Redevelopment Authority s plan to remove poor people from Columbia Point and that the university is planning a prestigious dormitory school with high tuition which students from low and moderate income families whom the university was designed to serve will not be able to attend 39 Chancellor Ryan also opposed the Columbia Point proposal who before he resigned in February 1968 made a counterproposal for a 15 acre campus south of where John Hancock Tower was being built that the BRA rejected 52 Architectural consultants of the university also scouted land near North Station and adjacent to the Boston Garden that was immediately opposed both by the ownership of the Boston Garden Arena Corporation that owned the Boston Bruins who threatened to move the team out of the city and Boston Mayor Kevin White 54 In August 1968 after Francis L Broderick was appointed the university s chancellor now Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H Quinn Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Kevin B Harrington and State Senator George Kenneally all urged the UMass Board of Trustees to accept the Columbia Point proposal while Chancellor Broderick asked the board to delay its decision at an October 1968 meeting by one month so that he might be able to deliver a final counterproposal while another rally at the Massachusetts State House of 2 500 faculty and students still demanded a Copley Square or Park Square location 55 In November 1968 Chancellor Broderick proposed a scattered site campus of office buildings situated along the MBTA s Green Line in the South End that would be jointly owned by the university and businesses while retaining the original Arlington Street building 47 56 However while the UMass Board of Trustees and UMass President John W Lederle argued instead for a unified campus on Columbia Point they allowed a task force an additional month to more fully study Broderick s proposal In the end after reviewing the task force s white paper at a meeting in December 1968 the UMass Board of Trustees voted 12 to 4 to accept the Columbia Point proposal 57 In 1972 Chancellor Francis L Broderick resigned and was succeeded by Italian literature professor Carlo L Golino who had been serving as vice president of academic affairs at the University of California Riverside in 1973 58 59 During Golino s tenure before the move to Columbia Point the university began awarding its first master s degrees in English and mathematics 60 1974 1988 Columbia Point campus and Boston State College merger Edit See also Columbia Point Boston MBM scandal and Boston State College nbsp The Columbia Point public housing project with the Healey Library visible in the background from Carson Beach in 1977 On the beach itself a racial conflict between residents of Columbia Point and South Boston for the use of Carson Beach and the L Street bath house nbsp Located on the UMass Boston campus the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex was listed in the U S National Register of Historic Places in 1990 Built in 1883 it is the only remaining 19th century building on Columbia Point nbsp Opened in October 1979 the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on Columbia Point next to UMass Boston nbsp In 1981 the Massachusetts state government announced that the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum would be built next to the JFK Presidential Library nbsp Italian literature scholar Carlo L Golino served as the university s chancellor from 1973 to 1978 nbsp The JFK UMass station in April 2016 The MBTA renamed the stop in 1982 after it had been called Columbia Station from when it first opened in 1927 On January 28 1974 the university opened its new campus on the Columbia Point peninsula surrounded by Dorchester Bay 61 Beginning in 1970 the construction of the Columbia Point campus was the largest public capital construction project in the history of Massachusetts exceeded only later by the Big Dig 62 The state government hired a single construction management firm McKee Berger Mansueto MBM to supervise six other architectural firms and construction companies to complete the project by September 1973 63 The construction had multiple delays the Boston Edison Company had not finished its electrical work 64 and because the site was a former landfill that had only been closed since 1963 a concrete and brick substructure where all of the campus mechanical systems would run conduits undergirded by hundreds of driven piles needed to be constructed before the buildings but pile driving released methane from the former landfill requiring construction workers to halt production while each release of methane dispersed 65 The Columbia Point campus was originally composed of five buildings connected by a series of skyways on the second floors of the buildings McCormack Hall Wheatley Hall the Science Center the Healey Library which was designed by Chicago modernist architect Harry Weese 66 and the Quinn Administration Building 67 68 69 To transport students from Columbia station the MBTA concluded that constructing a skyway from the station to the campus would be too expensive and the university administration set about planning a shuttle bus system funded by parking fees 63 Campus facilities would rise from the bottom of the substructure and the bottom of the substructure would provide entry to a parking garage with 1 600 spaces Because the campus was surrounded on three sides by a bay exposed to sea breeze and winter storms the salt water in the atmosphere and the road salt carried from automobiles would eventually damage parts of the substructure beyond feasible and cost effective repair 68 70 Because the university was underneath flight paths arriving at Logan International Airport all of the original Columbia Point campus buildings were soundproofed and because of this the classroom and offices in the buildings were designed as interior spaces with no windows and the entrance to every building faced inward onto the campus plaza Due to the campus being uniformly built of brick and the campus positioned above the landscape the campus became known as The Fortress The Rock or The Prison colloquially 71 72 The buildings were rumored to have been designed by architects familiar with the architectural design of prisons such as Weese who designed the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center but also designed so that the plaza could easily be occupied by the National Guard to suppress demonstrations and protests 71 In 1974 the 350 million capital construction budget for erecting more buildings on the campus was frozen due to the 1973 1975 recession halting any further expansion of the campus 73 59 In 1975 enabled by the move to Columbia Point Chancellor Carlo L Golino oversaw the opening of the College of Professional Studies later renamed the College of Management 74 and in 1976 supervised the merger of College I and College II into a single College of Arts and Sciences 75 Golino would resign as chancellor in 1978 59 was succeeded in the interim by Claire Van Ummersen the university s associate vice chancellor of academic affairs 19 and succeeded permanently in 1979 by Robert A Corrigan former arts and humanities provost at the University of Maryland 76 Construction for the Clark Athletic Center that included an ice hockey arena swimming pool and basketball courts broke ground in 1978 and was completed in 1979 77 78 In October 1979 a dedication ceremony was held for the opening of the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum after its construction was completed on a 10 acre site adjacent to the university campus 79 Two years later the state government announced that it would construct a new building for the Massachusetts State Archives and Commonwealth Museum next to the campus and the JFK Library 80 and on December 2 1982 the MBTA renamed Columbia station as JFK UMass station 81 In 1977 McKee Berger Mansueto Inc MBM the company contracted to supervise the construction of the campus came under public scrutiny after its contract with the Commonwealth was criticized in a series of newspaper articles for being abnormally favorable towards MBM and a special legislative committee led by Amherst College President John William Ward was formed to investigate the contract 82 A scandal erupted after it was learned MBM paid Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Joseph DiCarlo and State Senator Ronald MacKenzie 40 000 in exchange for a favorable report from the committee DiCarlo and MacKenzie were convicted of extortion 83 84 85 Newspaper columnist Charles Pierce summarized the careless and negligent quality of MBM s construction projects unearthed by the Ward Commission s investigation as follows Besides the Worcester jail with the cells that did not lock there was the auditorium at Boston State College in which the stage was not visible from a third of the seats and the library at Salem State College in which the walls were not sturdy enough to bear the weight of the books At the UMass Boston campus ground zero of the scandal school officials were forced to erect barricades to keep passerby from being brained by the bricks that kept falling off the side of the library Unsurprisingly a completely corrupt system had produced completely shoddy buildings that the taxpayers already fleeced once would have to pay to repair 86 In 1980 the 171st Massachusetts General Court voted to establish the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with the authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state and in 1981 the board decided to merge UMass Boston and Boston State College by 1984 87 Such a merger including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as well had been proposed in the state legislature in 1963 when UMass Boston was initially founded 88 Though the 1981 merger had allowed both schools a three year grace period to ease the transition a large cut in the state s higher education budget forced the board of regents to require a shotgun wedding merger to happen by September 1981 although the board did allow for it to be delayed until January of the following year 89 90 Boston State College had been in existence since 1852 and in the 130 years of its existence mostly had a reputation as a teacher s college situated in between the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area with two of its other largest enrollments being in nursing and police administration 91 These programs would transfer over to UMass Boston fully intact and would form the basis of the College of Education the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and the Criminal Justice program in the Sociology Department respectively 92 93 In 1981 Boston State College enrolled roughly 6 000 students and despite the Boston State College students having a similar demographic profile to UMass Boston students many students expressed opposition to and disapproval of the merger 94 Many of Boston State College s undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at UMass Boston were disbanded and as fewer of the Boston State faculty had PhDs than the UMass Boston faculty did the board of regents also decided to terminate the employment of 98 full time faculty members 275 part time teachers and 15 of the 35 administrators at Boston State College 95 In the end however the merger boosted enrollment at UMass Boston by 38 percent in one year from more than 8 000 in 60 areas of study in 1981 to more than 11 000 in 100 areas of study by 1983 96 89 and as Boston State College had more graduate programs than UMass Boston did at the time of the merger 97 most of Boston State College s graduate programs made the transition and tripled the graduate student enrollment at UMass Boston 98 By 1995 graduate students accounted for 21 percent of the university s total enrollment and in 2011 the College of Nursing and Health Sciences was the ninth largest and was ranked as the 50th best undergraduate nursing program in the United States and third best in New England by U S News amp World Report 99 In 1988 Chancellor Robert A Corrigan resigned 100 Besides the opening of the Clark Athletic Center and the Boston State College merger during his tenure he oversaw the authorization of the university s first PhD program in environmental science the university radio station WUMB FM receive an FM broadcasting license in 1981 along with its first air date on September 19 1982 96 33 101 the opening of the John W McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and the Urban Scholars program for talented Boston Public School students in 1983 89 102 103 as well as the opening of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture in 1984 104 The women s track and field team won the university s first NCAA Division III championship in 1985 and a student run cafe the Wit s End Cafe opened in Wheatley Hall in 1987 and would last for two decades 102 1988 2004 Penney and Gora Chancellorships Edit nbsp Aerial view of the UMass Boston campus in September 1993 nbsp Due to a recession in the early 1990s Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis 1975 1979 1983 1991 ordered the university to return appropriations multiple times to the state treasury in every fiscal year from 1989 to 1991 In 1988 historian Sherry A Penney succeeded Robert A Corrigan as chancellor Penney had been serving as chancellor of academic programs policy and planning for the State University of New York system Her tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts During the en masse failure of more than 1 000 of the more than 3 200 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995 and following a pair of stock market crashes in 1987 and 1989 and an oil price shock in 1990 the U S economy went into recession from July 1990 until March 1991 The unemployment rate in Massachusetts had increased from 2 4 percent in 1988 to 9 7 percent in 1992 leading to falling state revenue Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis responded by ordering all state agencies to cut their budgets in the 1989 1990 and 1991 fiscal years and sometimes multiple times during the same fiscal year and return appropriations to the state treasury 100 Chancellor Penney oversaw the university return funds to the state government 11 times during the first four years of her tenure 105 In 1995 Dukakis would arrange for part of the remaining funds from his 1988 presidential campaign be used to support a public service student internship program at UMass Boston and beginning in 2000 met with students in political science courses every year at the university along with former UMass System President and Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger 106 In response to the budget cuts Chancellor Penney began initiating major fundraising efforts including a five year capital campaign target of 50 million between 1995 and 2000 107 and a five year master plan in 1999 108 and despite the decline in state support implemented multiple research programs PhD programs and oversaw a reorganization of the school s colleges 100 In 1989 Chancellor Penney oversaw the opening of both the Urban Harbors Institute and The Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy and later oversaw the separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into the College of Science and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts In 1990 the university launched PhD programs in clinical psychology gerontology and environmental biology In 1993 the College of Public and Community Service established the Labor Resource Center and the College of Liberal Arts established the Institute for Asian American Studies the College of Education began its partnership with The Mather School the oldest public elementary school in the United States 109 and the Boston College Program for Women and Government moved to UMass Boston 110 Despite Chancellor Penney s efforts many programs were consolidated or closed such as the College of Education s undergraduate education degree 111 In 1994 the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education classified UMass Boston as a Master s Comprehensive University I 107 poet Lloyd Schwartz won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and in 1990 and 1998 art history professor Paul Hayes Tucker curated two exhibits at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of paintings by Claude Monet 105 109 In 1997 Professor Tucker would also found the Arts on the Point sculpture park on the campus 112 113 114 and the founder of the university radio station WUMB FM also started the Boston Folk Festival 115 34 By 1998 the university had four main research areas that accounted for three quarters of the university s research funding Environmental Studies Psycho Social Functioning of At Risk Populations Education and Health and Social Welfare In 2000 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston s designation to a Doctoral Research University Intensive and UMass Boston now offered seven doctoral programs in public policy computer science nursing and education in addition to clinical psychology gerontology and environmental biology 107 Each year of the 1990s saw an increase in the SAT scores of undergraduate applicants the university gained campus chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta and the Golden Key International Honour Society the undergraduate Honors Program expanded from 65 students into the Honors College with 400 students in 2013 and the university also had enrolled its first Fulbright scholars 116 Between 1996 and 2000 the number of undergraduate STEM majors at the school increased by 20 percent and in computer science alone enrollment increased by two thirds and biochemistry earth and geographic sciences all by one third Enrollment steadily increased during Chancellor Penney s tenure to 12 482 total students and 2 866 graduate students by 2000 and the university went from one in twelve students who were minority or female in 1988 to one in three by 2000 117 The percentage of faculty that was black rose from 13 percent in 1988 to 20 percent in 2000 and the percentage of faculty that was female rose from less than one third in 1988 to 41 percent in 2000 118 On February 19 1997 President Bill Clinton delivered an address on the campus arranged in part by U S Representative Joe Moakley from Massachusetts s 9th congressional district 119 120 121 122 and on October 3 2000 the Clark Athletic Center hosted the first presidential debate between Texas Governor George W Bush and Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 United States presidential election 119 After filing objections with the Federal Election Commission political activist and Green Party nominee Ralph Nader attempted to enter the debate site twice but was blocked by the U S Secret Service both times 123 The cancellation of two days of classes to create security for the debate resulted in a protest by UMass Boston students faculty and staff members at UMass System President William Bulger s office in Downtown Boston 124 125 In 2000 Chancellor Penney resigned to accept an endowed chair within the College of Management 119 Except between 1995 and 1996 while Penney served as the interim UMass System President and the university s Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance Jean F MacCormack served in her place Penney had served as the UMass Boston Chancellor for nearly 12 years She was succeeded in the interim in 2000 by David MacKenzie and permanently in May 2001 by Jo Ann M Gora the provost of Old Dominion University 108 19 During Gora s tenure the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs became the John W McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies in 2003 and the PhD program in green chemistry the first in the world was launched under the direction of chemist and UMass Boston alumnus John Warner in 2004 126 127 Gora would resign as chancellor in 2004 to become President of Ball State University and was succeeded in the interim by J Keith Motley the university s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs 128 During Motley s interim tenure the university established a partnership with the Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center in 2005 129 2004 2015 New campus center and 25 year master plan Edit See also Bayside Expo Center UMass Boston acquisition nbsp The current Campus Center opened in 2004 and was the first new facility constructed on the Columbia Point campus since the Clark Athletic Center opened in 1979 nbsp First floor of the Campus Center in February 2011 nbsp J Keith Motley was the university s Chancellor from July 1 2007 to June 30 2017 In December 2007 Motley proposed the university s 25 Year Master Plan to redevelop its campus to the UMass System Board of Trustees nbsp Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick 2007 2015 signed into law a higher education bond bill on August 7 2008 with 200 million to support the university s 25 Year Master Plan On April 2 2004 a new Campus Center next to Wheatley Hall was opened Construction for the facility began on July 20 2001 and was completed during the tenure of Chancellor Jo Ann M Gora 130 131 It became the new entrance for the campus and was the first building constructed since the Clark Athletic Center was completed in 1979 132 The building was designed by the Boston based architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell amp Wood and built by the Suffolk Construction Company at a cost of 80 million 133 130 Unlike the original Columbia Point campus buildings which were uniformly built of brick and faced inward the Campus Center was designed such that its glass front would look out onto Boston Harbor and the offices food court event space student clubs and activities space gave the campus a center of cohesion that was often lacking in the older buildings 134 In 2005 Chancellor Gora was permanently succeeded by Michael F Collins the president and CEO of Caritas Christi Health Care 128 On July 19 2006 Chancellor Collins ordered the immediate and permanent closure of the parking garage underneath the main campus causing a loss of 1 500 parking spaces 135 Two days later an article in The Boston Globe summarized the deterioration of the facility The University of Massachusetts at Boston has closed an underground parking garage that has been decaying for decades Over the years the garage has become a dreary labyrinth with walls and floor so eroded from the salty environment that they look like a coral reef Nets hang from the ceiling to catch fragments of falling cement a problem linked to the use of low quality concrete in the construction 136 137 Chunks of concrete had been falling from the garage ceiling since the 1990s and when Chancellor Collins ordered the closure 600 spaces had already been lost due to ongoing repairs and rerouting of passenger and vehicular traffic Because of the salt water atmosphere and the road salt from vehicles the steel reinforcing bars embedded in the campus substructure concrete walls and ceiling became severely degraded and because all of the campus mechanical systems had run conduits through the substructure many of those systems could not be repaired and the damage was causing outages of the computer electrical heat and air conditioning equipment An engineering report indicated that to repair the garage such that it would be safe for parking would cost 150 million On October 2 2006 the university began the process of creating a master plan to renew the campus 138 In 2010 a 385 pound section of the garage ceiling below Wheatley Hall fell 139 On June 2 2006 U S Senator Barack Obama from Illinois addressed his commencement speech at UMass Boston to the graduating students Among other topics he discussed his keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston 140 In early 2007 Chancellor Collins resigned to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School 141 and he was succeeded on July 1 2007 by former interim chancellor J Keith Motley who became the university s first African American chancellor 142 By December 14 2007 Chancellor Motley presented a 25 year master plan to the UMass System Board of Trustees who accepted the plan in full 143 Included in the 25 year master plan was the proposal to erect the university s first residential facilities that would accommodate 2 000 students but not with the intention of changing the character of the university from a commuter school to a residential school 144 Eight months later on August 7 2008 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a higher education bond bill with 100 million directed towards the construction of a new integrated sciences complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the university s campus a second 100 million directed towards constructing a general academic building and the following week U S Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts announced that he would accelerate his plans to construct the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Columbia Point next to his brother s presidential library 145 146 In 2009 the nearby Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure to a Florida based real estate firm LNR CMAT and on May 19 2010 the university purchased the property to use as campus facilities and to recoup 1 300 parking spaces 147 148 By 2013 with the construction of the EMK Institute underway on April 8 2011 149 the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex underway on June 8 2011 150 renovations to the Clark Athletic Center s gymnasium from March to December 2012 151 construction for a second academic building General Academic Building No 1 underway on February 27 2013 152 and a utility corridor and roadway network project begun in the spring of 2013 153 the university s campus became a multi site construction zone 113 In 2006 a report commissioned by the university on its areas of research strength and areas with opportunities for research titled Research Re envisioned for the 21st Century A Strategic Opportunity Assessment was released 154 In 2007 the College of Nursing and Health Sciences began the GoKids Boston program to counter childhood obesity 155 and in 2008 the Graduate College of Education renamed itself the College of Education and Human Development 156 In 2010 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston s designation a second time now to a Doctoral Research University with High Activity 157 156 On September 26 2011 a Strategic Planning Task Force chaired by university provost Winston E Langley and convened by Chancellor Motley issued its final report Fulfilling the Promise A Blueprint for UMass Boston 158 159 160 In 2012 biology professor Kamaljit S Bawa won the Gunnerus Sustainability Award 161 162 163 In 2013 the university established its School for Global Inclusion and Social Development the first of its kind in the world 164 165 its University Honors Program as a separate Honors College 164 and its School for the Environment and launched an interdisciplinary Nantucket Semester Program on land donated to the UMass Board of Trustees in 1963 by a Nantucket summer resident that became the university s Nantucket Field Station in the 1970s 166 167 In 2014 research activity at the university had climbed to 60 million 164 and the university began work on its HarborWalk Improvements and Shoreline Stabilization project 168 By the fall semester of 2014 total student enrollment had grown to 16 756 with 4 056 graduate students 169 The number of doctoral students had increased from 230 in the fall of 2000 to 614 in the fall of 2014 170 2015 present New buildings Edit See also Bayside Expo Center Bay City development Morrissey Boulevard Flooding and maintenance and Morrissey Boulevard Biotechnology industry nbsp UMass Boston and Morrissey Boulevard from the I 93 US 1 MA 3 concurrency in Dorchester in April 2014 with the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex nearing completion and the construction of University Hall underway nbsp The JFK Presidential Library from the Boston Harborwalk walkway paved by the university s Harborwalk Shoreline and Stabilization Project completed in 2015 nbsp University Hall opened in 2016 the Campus Center and Wheatley Hall in May 2022 nbsp Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker 2015 2023 included a 78 million appropriation to the 2018 state capital budget for repairs to the substructure parking garage in April 2017 nbsp On February 10 2020 University of California Los Angeles Dean Marcelo Suarez Orozco was unanimously appointed as the university s new permanent Chancellor and he assumed the position the following August In 2014 UMass Boston celebrated its fiftieth anniversary and in 2015 the University of Massachusetts Press published the school s first history about its founding and growth entitled UMass Boston at 50 171 In 2015 the College of Management enrolled close to one sixth of all students and more than half of the undergraduate students earning degrees in a STEM field were minority or female 172 By 2015 UMass Boston students came from 140 different nations and spoke 90 different languages 173 On January 26 2015 the university opened its first new academic building since the Columbia Point campus was built a research facility named the Integrated Sciences Complex 174 175 The building cost 182 million to construct was designed by the Boston based architectural firm Goody Clancy and was constructed by Walsh Brothers 176 On March 30 2015 the dedication ceremony for the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate was held and the institute opened to the public the next day 177 178 179 On June 11 2015 the university broke ground on construction for a new baseball field across University Drive West from the Clark Athletic Center and was scheduled to be completed by December 1 of that year 180 The construction was supported by a 2 million gift from the Yawkey Foundation was built with the exact dimensions of Fenway Park and was named for Boston College President J Donald Monan SJ 181 On July 17 2015 the university completed a project begun the previous summer to stabilize an eroded 800 foot segment of the Dorchester Bay shoreline and pave a new walkway along the Boston Harborwalk in between the JFK Presidential Library and the Harbor Point Apartments 182 The project cost 2 8 million placed 3 200 tons of stone along the shoreline including a significant amount of granite unearthed by the Big Dig that was donated by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and also constructed new benches lighting gathering spaces and an artwork display area alongside the walkway 183 On January 25 2016 the university began a phased opening of its second new academic facility University Hall 184 The building cost 130 million to construct was designed by the Boston based Wilson Architects and was constructed by the Gilbane Building Company 185 The following month the university announced that it would construct the first residential facilities in the university s history 186 187 In September 2016 U S News amp World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the first time in the university s history tied at number 220 188 In December 2016 the university broke ground on the 1 077 bed residential facilities located along University Drive North and West and one set back from Mount Vernon Street 189 The following month the university broke ground on a 1 400 space free standing parking garage adjacent to the Integrated Sciences Complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the campus 190 On March 3 2017 former Bowdoin College president Barry Mills was appointed the university s deputy chancellor and chief operating officer In this role he oversaw the academic and research program and campus operations 191 On April 5 2017 university officials announced that Chancellor J Keith Motley would resign at the end of the academic calendar year on June 30 take a one year sabbatical and return as a tenured faculty member UMass System President Marty Meehan stated Deputy Chancellor Mills would serve as interim chancellor until university finances are stabilized and the university is positioned to attract a world class chancellor through a global search 192 specifically to address the university s 2017 operating budget deficit of 30 million 193 In response to the appointment of Mills and Motley s resignation announcement UMass Boston faculty publicly expressed concern that Motley was being scapegoated for the university s budget deficit while Boston City Councilors Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley and Massachusetts State Representatives Linda Dorcena Forry and Russell Holmes called upon System President Meehan to reject Motley s resignation 194 195 196 On April 8 2017 at a UMass System Board of Trustees meeting UMass Boston faculty and students protested decisions by university administration to cut offerings of courses many required for graduation in the upcoming summer semester 197 as well as other programs and to make expense adjustments which reduced the deficit to approximately 6 million or 7 million 198 On April 24 2017 Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that the state government capital budget for fiscal year 2018 would include 78 million towards repairs for fixing the substructure parking garage 199 On July 1 2017 Barry Mills became interim chancellor after Keith Motley s resignation 192 200 In September 2017 for the second consecutive year U S News amp World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking and elevated the school in the rankings to a tie at number 202 201 while a coalition of UMass Boston administrative staff faculty and students formed in the same month called the Coalition to Save UMB and issued a report authored by faculty calling on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts General Court to increase state funding to assist the university to service its debt from its campus renewal construction projects and increase capital investments for the university 202 203 In November 2017 an audit commissioned by UMass System President Marty Meehan and conducted by KPMG was presented to the UMass System Board of Trustees that found that faulty record keeping a lack of discipline in its budgeting process and a failure on the part of UMass Boston administration to appreciate the cost of the campus renewal construction projects on the university s operating budget led to the university s 30 million budget deficit 204 and in the same month the university laid off 36 employees after laying off about 100 non tenure track faculty earlier in the year 205 202 In January 2018 the UMass Building Authority put the university s Bayside Expo Center property up for sale 206 In April 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mount Ida College administrators announced that the former school would acquire the latter s campus in Newton after the latter college s closure 207 The acquisition was immediately opposed by UMass Boston faculty and students due to inadequate consultation with the Boston campus faculty the Boston campus budget deficit and that because of the proximity of the Mount Ida campus to the Boston campus the faculty contended that the new campus would compete with the Boston campus 208 209 As of April 2018 the UMass Boston campus remained the sole campus in the UMass system with a majority minority enrollment 208 In May 2018 following the approval of the sale by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey 210 the UMass Boston Faculty Council passed a motion of no confidence in UMass System President Marty Meehan and the UMass System Board of Trustees 211 In the same month 10 days after three finalists for the UMass Boston chancellor position were named 212 on May 21 2018 all three finalists withdrew from consideration after faculty members questioned the qualifications of the candidates 213 On June 20 2018 UMass System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Katherine Newman was appointed as the university s interim chancellor by the UMass System Board of Trustees effective July 1 2018 214 In September 2018 U S News amp World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the third consecutive year and further elevated the school to a tie at number 191 215 students moved into UMass Boston s first dormitory 216 and the university opened the free standing parking garage adjacent to the Integrated Sciences Complex 217 The residence halls project cost 120 million to construct was led by Capstone Development Partners built by Shawmut Construction and designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects 218 The garage project cost 69 million to construct was managed by Skanska built by the Suffolk Construction Company and designed by Fennick McCredie Architecture 217 219 In October 2018 Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced a comprehensive climate change adaptation proposal to protect the Boston Harbor coastline from flooding 220 In February 2019 university campus employees protested an administration decision to increase the daily parking fee from 6 to 15 to cover the costs of the garage operation and other expenses 221 In the same month the UMass System Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 99 year final lease agreement for the Bayside Expo Center with Accordia Partners for 192 million to 235 million 222 223 During the 2018 2019 academic year UMass Boston served 650 military veterans managed 4 million in federal G I benefits and was ranked by multiple publications as being among the best universities in the United States for veteran students 224 In May 2019 the Pioneer Institute released a white paper co authored by former Massachusetts State Representative Gregory W Sullivan who also served as the Massachusetts Inspector General that reviewed records obtained from the UMass System Controller s Office as well as other publicly available documents that concluded that Chancellor Keith Motley and other UMass Boston administrators were scapegoated for the 2017 fiscal year 30 million budget deficit and that instead the approval by the System Board of Trustees of an accelerated 5 year capital spending plan in December 2014 without assuring that capital reserves would be made available to pay for the plan as well as an error to a 5 year campus reserve ratio estimate prepared by the UMass Central Budget Office and presented to the System Board of Trustees in April 2016 was the cause of the 26 million in budget reductions implemented by interim Chancellor Barry Mills and that the reductions were made at the direction of the UMass Central Office 225 226 Additionally the white paper states that KPMG s 2017 audit was not conducted in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards or reported in accordance with auditing standards prescribed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and that the purchase of Mount Ida College in April 2018 was conducted by a wire transfer from the UMass System for 75 million without being included on the previously approved university capital plan at the time the UMass Central Office ordered the budget reductions rather than UMass Amherst purchasing the Mount Ida campus with loanable funds to be repaid with interest and in contrast to how the transaction was described in a press statement issued by Meehan s office 225 227 The following month interim Chancellor Katherine Newman issued a press statement disputing the findings of the white paper 228 In September 2019 the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President addressed the UMass System Board of Trustees to protest the potential offering of equivalent programs at the Mount Ida campus that are already offered at the Boston campus 229 The following December the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President presented the board with a petition from the Boston campus faculty reiterating their concerns about the Mount Ida campus and requesting more input into its planning 230 Also in 2019 the 164 million project to develop a new utility corridor and roadway network led by BVH Integrated Services Inc and built by Bond Brothers was completed 153 In January 2020 a 45 million project managed by Hill International designed by CannonDesign and built by Consigli Construction to renovate Wheatley and McCormack Halls the Quinn Administration Building and the Healey Library to relocate programs from the original Science Center to facilitate its demolition was completed 231 232 In February 2020 University of California Los Angeles Dean Marcelo Suarez Orozco was unanimously appointed as the new permanent chancellor of the university succeeding Katharine Newman 233 and Suarez Orozco assumed the position on August 1 2020 234 In October 2020 the Walsh administration released a 174 page climate change adaptation report for the Boston Harbor coastline in Dorchester with a section on Columbia Point and Morrissey Boulevard 235 236 In September 2021 the UMass System Board of Trustees Chair announced that a 15 million endowment would be established for the UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences as part of a 50 million personal donation to the UMass System the largest in its history by the System Board of Trustees Chair and his wife 237 In January 2023 the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences received 3 million in federal funding for a home care digital and simulation lab 238 In February 2023 Chancellor Suarez Orozco stated that the repairs to the substructure parking garage were complete in an interview with the Dorchester Reporter 139 In July 2023 UMass Boston and Mass General Brigham announced an agreement to provide 20 million in funding for a workforce pipeline program in the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences 239 Campus Edit nbsp UMB shuttle bus with direct service to the Campus Center at JFK UMass station in January 2019 nbsp The Science Center was one of the original Columbia Point campus buildings opened in 1974 Demolished in 2020 nbsp Wheatley Hall is also one of the original Columbia Point campus buildings opened in 1974 Named for poet Phillis Wheatley nbsp The UMass Boston campus from Squantum Point Park in Quincy in June 2008 The brick building in the foreground is Wheatley Hall and the white building to its right is the Campus Center nbsp The UMass Boston campus in April 2009 from the Morrissey Boulevard entrance From left to right the buildings are the Quinn Administration Building the Healey Library and McCormack Hall UMass Boston is located off Interstate 93 and within one mile of the JFK UMass MBTA Station on the Red Line and the Old Colony Lines of the Commuter Rail 240 A shuttle is available from the MBTA station to campus Columbia Point buildings Edit Calf Pasture Pumping Station Originally built and designed by Boston Architect George Albert Clough in 1883 the sewage treatment plant is currently being evaluated by UMass Building Authority for redevelopment 241 Healey Library Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974 Named for Joseph P Healey UMass System Board of Trustees Chair 1969 1981 67 242 McCormack Hall Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974 Named for John W McCormack Speaker of the U S House of Representatives 1962 1971 243 Quinn Administration Building Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974 Named for Robert H Quinn Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1967 1969 and UMass System Board of Trustees Chair 1981 1986 13 244 Science Center Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974 The facility was demolished as part of a 137 million project to construct a campus quad and 300 space parking lot in its place that began in July 2020 232 Wheatley Hall Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974 Named for Revolutionary War era and first published African American female poet Phillis Wheatley 245 246 Clark Athletic Center Broke ground in 1978 and completed in 1979 77 78 On October 3 2000 hosted the first debate between Texas Governor George W Bush and Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 U S presidential election 119 Campus Center Broke ground in 2001 and completed in 2004 130 131 The building cost 80 million to construct was designed by the Boston based architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell amp Wood and built by the Suffolk Construction Company 133 130 Integrated Sciences Complex Broke ground in 2011 and completed in 2015 150 174 The building cost 182 million to construct was designed by the Boston based architectural firm Goody Clancy and was constructed by Walsh Brothers 176 Monan Park Broke ground and completed in 2015 180 The construction was supported by a 2 million gift from the Yawkey Foundation was built with the exact dimensions of Fenway Park and was named for Boston College President J Donald Monan SJ 181 Jointly owned with Boston College High School University Hall Broke ground in 2013 and opened in 2016 152 184 The building cost 130 million to construct was designed by the Boston based Wilson Architects and was constructed by the Gilbane Building Company 185 Motley Residence Hall Broke ground in 2016 and opened in 2018 189 216 The residence halls project cost 120 million to construct was led by Capstone Development Partners built by Shawmut Construction and designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects 218 In April 2023 university administration dedicated the dormitories in honor of former Chancellor J Keith Motley and his wife 247 248 249 Parking Garage West Broke ground in 2017 and opened in 2018 190 The garage project cost 69 million to construct was managed by Skanska built by the Suffolk Construction Company and designed by Fennick McCredie Architecture 217 219 Off site locations Edit UMass Boston s Institute for New England Native American Studies and Institute for Community Inclusion UMass Boston s joint program with Boston Children s Hospital that is part of the national Association of University Centers on Disabilities 250 have their main offices on the fourth floor of the Bayside Office Center at 150 Mount Vernon Street 251 252 which is adjacent to the former Bayside Expo Center and down the street from the main campus 253 UMass Boston s Early Learning Center that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children is located at 2 Harbor Point Boulevard in the Harbor Point Apartments complex adjacent to the campus 254 253 UMass Boston s Biology Department and School for the Environment also have a field station on Nantucket 255 256 Future campus development Edit In December 2009 a report prepared for the state government on the 25 year master plan was released outlining future campus development and construction projects which included the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex and University Hall as well as the improvements to the Boston HarborWalk 257 Projects include A 137 million project managed by Hill International and designed by NBBJ to demolish the original Science Center the university swimming pool building the majority of the campus substructure and plaza adjoining those facilities and to construct a campus quadrangle and 300 space parking lot in their place which began in July 2020 258 and is expected to be completed by the 2022 2023 winter 232 A second general purpose academic building General Academic Building No 2 which received 100 million in state funding in 2012 and that is to be built next to Wheatley Hall in between University Drives South and East and the Campus Center bus stop 259 260 261 A project to restore the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex and to construct a mixed use facility on an adjacent 10 acre site for which the UMass Building Authority issued a request for information in January 2020 262 received eight proposals in response by the following September 263 and issued a request for proposal in July 2021 264 Academics EditDistribution of UMass Boston undergraduate student body by college 2017 2018 265 266 College Undergraduate Major Bachelor s Degrees ConferredLiberal Arts 4 845 39 12 1 130 42 40 Science amp Mathematics 3 252 26 26 382 14 33 Management 2 066 16 68 528 19 81 Nursing amp Health Sciences 1 642 13 26 476 17 86 Education amp Human Development 260 2 10 71 2 66 School for the Environment 258 2 08 66 2 48 Advancing amp Professional Studies 51 0 41 6 0 23 Public amp Community Service 12 0 10 4 0 15 University Totals 12 386 100 00 2 665 100 00 UMass Boston has a graduation rate of 49 and an annual retention rate of 76 267 The university confers bachelor s master s and doctoral degrees and also operates certificate programs and a corporate continuing and distance learning program There are eleven schools and colleges at UMass Boston the College of Liberal Arts College of Science and Mathematics School for the Environment College of Management College of Nursing and Health Sciences College of Public and Community Service College of Education and Human Development John W McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies School for Global Inclusion and Social Development Honors College and College of Advancing and Professional Studies CAPS The university is a member of the Urban 13 universities alongside schools like Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh The university maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People s Republic of China 268 269 Academic rankingsNationalForbes 270 573THE WSJ 271 360U S News amp World Report 272 228Washington Monthly 273 130GlobalARWU 274 901 1000QS 275 581 590U S News amp World Report 276 417In the 2017 2018 academic year the five most popular majors at the university were Management Biology Psychology Exercise and Health Sciences and Nursing Within the College of Liberal Arts the five most popular majors were Psychology Criminal Justice Economics Communication Studies and English Within the College of Science and Mathematics the five most popular majors were Biology Computer Science Biochemistry Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Within the College of Management the five most popular concentrations were Accounting Finance Marketing Information Technology and International Management 265 The five most popular minors at the university were Psychology Sociology Economics Criminal Justice and English tied with Biology 277 Accreditation Edit UMass Boston is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education 278 Additionally the College of Management is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB 279 and the College of Nursing and Health Services hold accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing The Family Therapy Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Marital and Family Therapy Education COAMFTE Faculty Edit UMass Boston faculty by tenure status and college 2015 2016 280 College Total note 2 Part Time note 3 Non Tenure Track note 4 Tenured Tenure Track note 5 Liberal Arts 489 39 34 174 35 58 102 20 86 213 43 56 Science amp Mathematics 172 13 84 46 26 74 36 20 93 90 52 33 Nursing amp Health Sciences 142 11 42 92 64 79 23 16 20 27 19 01 Education amp Human Development 123 9 90 68 55 28 9 7 32 46 37 40 Management 119 9 57 37 31 09 21 17 65 61 51 26 McCormack Graduate School 56 4 51 21 37 50 6 10 71 29 51 79 Advancing amp Professional Studies 51 4 10 45 88 24 6 11 76 0 0 00 Global Inclusion amp Social Development 28 2 25 19 67 86 0 0 00 9 32 14 School for the Environment 23 1 85 6 26 09 3 13 04 14 60 87 Public amp Community Service 16 1 29 4 25 00 0 0 00 12 75 00 University Totals note 6 1 243 100 00 527 42 39 210 16 89 506 40 71 In 2016 UMass Boston s faculty of 1 243 consisted of 182 tenure track and 210 non tenure track professors 280 96 percent of the faculty held the highest degree in their fields and the student teacher ratio was 16 1 281 282 283 It includes poet Lloyd Schwartz who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994 and co edited the Library of America s Elizabeth Bishop Poems Prose and Letters in 2008 143 and Jill McDonough 284 translator and Slavic philologist Diana Lewis Burgin 285 linguist Donaldo Macedo 286 author Padraig O Malley 287 feminist scholar Carol Cohn 288 economists Julie A Nelson and Randy Albelda 289 290 philosophers Lynne Tirrell and Lawrence Blum 291 292 political scientists Leila Farsakh and Thomas Ferguson 293 294 psychologist Sharon Lamb 295 Monet expert Paul Hayes Tucker 296 biologist Kamaljit S Bawa 297 and physicist Benjamin Mollow discoverer of the Mollow triplet 298 Former faculty members include biblical scholar Richard A Horsley 299 chemist John Warner 300 evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden 301 feminist writers Beverly Smith and Christina Hoff Sommers 302 303 politician Mary B Newman namesake of the Mary B Newman Award for Academic Excellence 304 historians Edward Berkowitz 305 306 James Green 307 Peter Linebaugh 308 William Andrew Moffett Mark Peattie 309 310 and James Turner 311 312 literary scholar Carlo L Golino who served as the university s chancellor from 1973 to 1978 19 313 mathematicians Amir Aczel 314 Victor S Miller and Robert Thomas Seeley 315 316 computer scientist Patrick O Neil 317 neurologist M V Padma Srivastava 318 novelists Jaime Clarke 319 Elizabeth Searle 320 and Melanie Rae Thon 321 philosopher Jane Roland Martin 322 poets Martha Collins and Sabra Loomis 323 324 political scientists Jalal Alamgir and Kent John Chabotar 325 326 clinical psychologist David Lisak 327 328 social psychologist Melanie Joy 329 and sociologists Benjamin Bolger and Robert Dentler 330 Institutes and centers EditThe following free standing institutes and centers are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 331 Center for Social Development and Education 332 Center for Survey Research 333 Institute for Asian American Studies 334 a member of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium Institute for Community Inclusion 335 Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration 336 The Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy 337 Urban Harbors Institute 338 Venture Development Center 339 William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences 340 William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture 341 The following university wide institutes and centers are operationally managed by collective leadership teams appointed by the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs 331 Center of Science and Mathematics in Context 342 Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy a collaborative venture with the Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center 343 Confucius Institute 344 Developmental Sciences Research Center Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation 345 Institute for International and Comparative Education 346 Sustainable Solutions Lab 347 The following institutes and centers are administered by their college or department 331 Adult Literacy Resource Institute Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research 348 Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections 349 Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks 350 Center for Collaborative Leadership 351 Center for Environmental Health Science and Technology Center for Governance and Sustainability 352 Center for Green Chemistry 353 Center for Innovation and Excellence in eLearning 354 Center for Innovative Teaching 355 Center for Peace Democracy and Development 356 Center for Portuguese Language Instituto Camoes 357 Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters 358 Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging 359 Center for Social Policy 360 Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness 361 Center for the Study of Gender Security and Human Rights 362 Center for the Study of the Humanities Culture and Society 363 Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy 364 Center for World Languages and Cultures 365 Center on Media and Society 366 China Program Center 367 Edward J Collins Jr Center for Public Management 368 Entrepreneurship Center 369 Gerontology Institute 370 GoKids Boston Youth Fitness and Training Center 371 Institute for Learning and Teaching 372 Institute for New England Native American Studies 373 Labor Resource Center 374 New England Resource Center for Higher Education 375 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 376 Pension Action Center 377 The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center amp Minority Business Center 378 Athletics EditIntercollegiate athletics intramurals and recreation for the students staff and faculty are the primary programs of the UMass Boston Department of Athletics The department offers 18 varsity sports and is a member of the NCAA s Division III UMass Boston known by their nickname the Beacons has teams competing in the ECAC the Little East Conference and ECAC East Ice Hockey The Beacons have been named All Americans 93 times in seven sports The women s indoor and outdoor track amp field teams have won four NCAA team championships and 38 NCAA individual championships 379 In the years 1999 through 2006 the National Consortium for Academics and Sports named the Department of Athletics at UMass Boston first in the country for community service Student activities EditUMass Boston s independent student run and financed newspaper is The Mass Media Other student publications include the yearbook 380 Watermark 381 arts and literary magazine and The Beacon monthly humor magazine UMass Boston also owns and operates WUMB FM 91 9 a 24 hour public noncommercial radio station that broadcasts folk music programs and produces the award winning public and cultural affairs program Commonwealth Journal 382 383 384 National student societies or professional organizations with active local or student chapters at UMass Boston include Alpha Lambda Delta 385 386 the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 387 388 College Democrats of America 389 390 Delta Sigma Pi 391 392 393 Free the Children 394 395 the Golden Key International Honour Society 396 397 398 the National Student Nurses Association 399 400 Phi Delta Epsilon 401 394 402 the Public Interest Research Group 403 404 the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos Hispanics and Native Americans in Science 405 406 the Society of Physics Students 394 407 and Young Americans for Liberty 408 409 The American Chemical Society had a student chapter at UMass Boston but as of the Fall 2016 semester it is inactive 394 410 note 7 411 412 Notable alumni EditSee also Category University of Massachusetts Boston alumni Joseph Abboud B A 1972 International Men s Fashion Designer 413 Amsale Aberra B A 1981 Celebrity Wedding designer 414 Cory Atkins B S 1979 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1999 2019 415 416 Panayiota Bertzikis B A 2010 Humanitarian Daniel E Bosley M S 1996 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1987 2011 417 416 Edward Scott Bozek 1950 2022 Olympic epee fencer William Bratton B A 1975 Boston City Police Commissioner 1993 1994 New York City Police Commissioner 1994 1996 2014 2016 Los Angeles Police Department Chief 2002 2009 Member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council 2011 Present 418 Phillip Brutus B S 1982 Member of the Florida House of Representatives 2001 2007 419 Christine Canavan B S Nursing summa cum laude 1988 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1993 2015 420 416 Ken Casey bassist for the punk rock group the Dropkick Murphys Lenny Clarke did not finish comedian actor 421 Tim Costello 1945 2009 labor and anti globalization advocate and author 422 Paul Donato Mayor of Medford Massachusetts 1980 1985 Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives 2001 Present Second Assistant Majority Whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2009 Present 423 424 Paul M English B A 1987 and M S 1989 both in Computer Science co founder and CTO of Kayak com 425 426 Jennifer L Flanagan B S Political Science 1998 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2005 2009 Member of the Massachusetts Senate 2009 2017 427 Jovita Fontanez 1984 head of Boston Election Commission member of Massachusetts Electoral College 428 Beth Harrington filmmaker and musician Robert L Hedlund Member of the Massachusetts Senate 1991 1993 1995 2016 Mayor of Weymouth Massachusetts 2016 Present 429 Patricia D Jehlen M A History Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1991 2005 Member of the Massachusetts Senate 2005 Present 430 John F Kelly B A 1976 general in the United States Marine Corps commander of U S Southern Command USSOUTHCOM from 2012 to 2016 Former senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense former commander of Multi National Force West Iraq U S Secretary of Homeland Security January July 2017 White House Chief of Staff July 2017 January 2019 431 Joseph P Kennedy II B A 1976 current president of Citizens Energy Corporation and former member of the U S House of Representatives 1987 1999 432 Dennis Lehane did not finish author 433 Ron Mariano M Ed 1972 Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2020 Present Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1991 Present Majority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2011 2020 434 435 Juana Matias state representative 436 Gina McCarthy B A 1976 Administrator of the U S Environmental Protection Agency 2013 2017 White House National Climate Advisor 2021 2022 437 Michael J McGlynn B A Political Science History 1976 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1977 1988 Mayor of Medford Massachusetts 1988 2016 416 Thomas Menino B A Community Planning 1988 Mayor of Boston 1993 2014 Boston City Council President 1993 Member of the Boston City Council 1984 1993 438 439 Janet Mills B A 1970 Maine Attorney General 2009 2011 2013 2019 75th Governor of Maine 2019 440 441 442 Michael J Moran B A Economics 1995 Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2005 Present 443 444 Eileen Myles B A Author 445 Kelly Overton Activist Stanzi Potenza actor comedian and TikTok personality Joe Rogan did not finish comedian actor NewsRadio and Fear Factor 446 Jeffrey Sanchez B A Legal Education Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 2003 2019 447 Debra Saunders B A 1982 conservative columnist White House Correspondent of the Las Vegas Review Journal 448 Biz Stone did not finish Co founder of Twitter 449 Steve Sweeney B A 1974 Comedian 450 John M Tobin Jr B A Political Science Member of the Boston City Council 2002 2010 Harry Trask B A 1969 1928 2002 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Photography for a photograph of the SS Andrea Doria sinking 451 Robert Travaglini B S 1974 President of the Massachusetts Senate 2003 2007 Member of the Massachusetts Senate 1992 2007 Member of the Boston City Council 1984 1992 452 416 Samuel Urkato Minister of Science and Higher Education Ethiopia 453 Bill Walczak B A 1978 former CEO Codman Square Health Center and candidate for Mayor of Boston 454 455 John Warner B S 1984 one of the founding fathers of Green Chemistry founded first PhD program in Green Chemistry 456 457 300 Georgette Watson B A anti drug activist 458 Dana White did not finish current president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC 459 Notes Edit Such activism led Chancellor Broderick to approve the formation of a task force led by sociology professor James Blackwell the university s only tenured African American faculty member and English professor Mary Anne Ferguson that recommended the hiring of a university affirmative action officer to ensure the equal consideration of minority and woman faculty candidates and by the mid 1970s for the UMass Boston Sociology Department to have one third of its members be black and 40 percent be women higher ratios than were typical of a university that was neither historically black nor a women s college Blackwell and Ferguson would go on to play leading roles in establishing the Black and Women s Studies Departments as well The percentages in this column are the ratios of the total number of faculty members in a college relative to the number of faculty members in the university as a whole The percentages in this column are the ratios of part time faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college The percentages in this column are the ratios of non tenure track faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college The percentages in this column are the ratios of tenured or tenure track faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college The percentages in this row are the ratios of the total numbers of faculty members in each column s category relative to the number of faculty members in the university as a whole However the American Chemical Society still certifies the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree at UMass Boston References EditFootnotes Edit Endowment Overview University of Massachusetts Faculty and Staff Office of Institutional Research and Policy Studies UMass Boston 2022 Retrieved July 6 2023 a b c Fall 2022 Enrollment Office of Institutional Research Assessment and Planning UMass Boston The Mass Boston Brand Manual PDF 2009 01 08 Retrieved 2017 09 13 Moore Galen The 10 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