For years, the state of the university address has been an opportunity to celebrate our progress with students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends all tightly gathered in a large room.
That, of course, is not possible this year, and so we鈥檝e adjusted, just as we鈥檝e learned to adjust in nearly every facet of our lives as a result of the pandemic.
BOSTON 鈥 麻豆视频 President Marty Meehan announced today that he would recommend that the university鈥檚 Board of Trustees freeze tuition for in-state undergraduates for the academic year beginning in September. If approved by the UMass Board, this would be the second straight year of a tuition freeze at the Commonwealth鈥檚 75,000-student national public research university system.
麻豆视频 campuses are deploying the energy, expertise, and ingenuity of students, faculty and staff in support of the Commonwealth鈥檚 COVID-19 vaccination effort.
In video message, President Meehan emphasizes the multiple ways UMass has 鈥渁nswered the call鈥 in its response to COVID-19
"On behalf of the 75,000 students, 18,000 faculty and staff, half million-plus alumni of the 麻豆视频, we extend our gratitude to the 麻豆视频 Congressional delegation for its support of the American Rescue Plan Act. The funding it provides to our campuses and students will be critical in our efforts to sustain our mission of teaching, research and service, which will help drive the post-pandemic economic recovery of the Commonwealth.
The entire 麻豆视频 community mourns the loss of Joseph D. Duffey, the distinguished former UMass Amherst chancellor and UMass president who fought for excellence in public higher education and for peace and justice in our society.
Joe Duffey led an extraordinary life. He was a higher education leader, a civil rights and anti-war activist, a U.S. Senate candidate and ordained minister who chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities and led the U.S. Information Agency.
A year ago, when researcher began work on a to make home health care safer for caregivers and patients alike, she had no idea she鈥檇 be doing it amid the worst pandemic in a century.
First-year business students Sarah Curley and have become good friends since meeting last year during the . They take several of the same classes, they study together whenever they can, and they both joined the Joy Tong Women in Business student organization.
Now they look forward to actually meeting face to face someday.
When transfer student Michael Hines began as an exercise physiology major at UMass Lowell, he had already taken two-plus years of college business classes and worked for several years.
The exercise physiology major was designed to prepare students, through a rigorous science curriculum, to go on for their doctorates in or other clinical graduate degrees, such as chiropractic or physician assistant.
鈥16 didn鈥檛 know what he wanted to study when he arrived at UMass Lowell.
He was still narrowing it down when he graduated from the university and the with two bachelor鈥檚 degrees: one in and a second in .