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UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program

July 2, 2015 By gmoke Leave a Comment

We currently have 600 students registered in our UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program. If you are interested in this 15 credit UMass degree, see: https://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/SFF-Certificate AND..... Our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: agriculture, business, education, farming, food, industry, umass

Boston Can Learn Much from Other Cities in Transition – Even Belfast and Srebrenica

December 12, 2014 By andytarsy 3 Comments

  This fall, as a Senior Fellow in the McCormack Graduate School at UMASS Boston, I had the privilege of being an observer at an annual gathering of the Forum for Cities in Transition. The four day conclave was in Belfast, Northern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: belfast, boston, cities, leadership, umass, umass-boston

Free speech for a terrorist? Or, why the governor hates me

November 19, 2009 By dan-clawson 27 Comments

Scheduled, then canceled The talk was originally scheduled by the special collections of the university library, as a 20-year retrospective on "The Great Sedition Trial" - the longest running, most expensive trial ever held in this part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: free-speech, massachusetts, terrorism, umass, university-of-massachusetts

Health insurance is NOT health care!

November 15, 2009 By AmberPaw 38 Comments

The reality too is that the CEO of Aetna earns 24 million a year, taken from those profits, Cigna's CEO takes home 30 million a year see a great table from the same link.showing profits in the billion-plus zone and CEO salaries Health … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: general-insurance-corporation, gic, health-care, health-insurance, profit, student-health-insurance, umass

Sheila Bair at UMass

March 28, 2009 By davemb 7 Comments

The most interesting question, I thought, was from a woman who asked why Bair acted competently and effectively in the crisis when the rest of the Bush financial leadership did not.  Bair didn't really answer, but a good answer was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fdic, financial-crisis, national, sheila-bair, umass

Cost of College: Notes from America’s Most Indebted Generation

December 15, 2008 By tblade 14 Comments

UMass Boston was recently featured in a superlative ten-minute piece from PBS's The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on the opressive rise in college costs and student debt.   College costs have been climbing for years. Since the early '80s, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: college, debt, economy, education, higher-education, student-loans, umass, umass-boston

Should I cover over my Patrick sticker?

September 16, 2008 By davemb 1 Comment

Some background first.  Faculty and staff at UMass get no raises except through new contracts, which normally come every three years.  If the state doesn't want to pay raises, they can simply stall negotiations and the old … [Read more...]

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Tick-Tocco: The clock’s running on UMass chair

October 16, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 17 Comments

A break from MA-05 madness ... I can't say I'm terribly surprised by this:Governor Deval Patrick, determined to exert control over the University of Massachusetts system, is undaunted by his failed bid last month to remove UMass … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: jack-wilson, lombardi, massachusetts, patrick, tocco, umass

Patrick keeps hands off of UMess

May 30, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 3 Comments

From Casey:Q: Could you talk about what?s going on with UMass and Jack Wilson? Could we get a comment on that?Patrick: "I respect the president?s right and authority to make personnel decisions. I understand that there's some feeling on at … [Read more...]

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UMass faculty: No confidence in Wilson, trustees

May 24, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 4 Comments

Yeah, this whole thing didn't go over too well, did it?In what Faculty Senate secretary Ernest May said amounted to a no-confidence vote, the professors passed a resolution to "express lack of confidence" in the board of trustees and … [Read more...]

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Woke up sick about the state, which has so badly mismanaged so much of the COVID-19 response for the entire year, insisting their judgment should be substituted for local districts when they have made it clear they both don’t know and don’t care about local conditions. #MAEdu

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My unsolicited environmental recommendation of the day: this episode of "Why Is This Happening?"

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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