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UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program

July 2, 2015 By gmoke

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

  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

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

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

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

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

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, labor-contracts, question-1, umass

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

October 16, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

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

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: patrick, umass, wilson

UMass faculty: No confidence in Wilson, trustees

May 24, 2007 By Charley on the MTA

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...]

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

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'We Have Enormous Work To Do': Chris Murphy Calls For Action Amidst Scourge Of Mass Shootings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNy8MDdtTL4

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BORDERS COMPROMISED IN NEW ENGLAND
'100s - 1000s of illegal immigrants entering the country thu borders of Vermont, NewYork, Maine, New Hampshire'
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22yo Longmeadow man pleaded guilty to 3 counts of *secretly* filming former *teen* co-workers in a dressing room in 2020 and gets a 1 year suspended sentence and 4 years of probation. He'll remain free unless he violates probation. Are victims consulted in MA plea deals? #mapoli

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Accreditation MUST be required for PROFESSIONAL law enforcement. Every individual police officer SHOULD be required to be licensed and unable to do police work w/o such license and accreditation. Police are given too much authority and too little responsibility. #BOSpoli #MApoli

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