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...]
Boston Can Learn Much from Other Cities in Transition – Even Belfast and Srebrenica
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...]
Free speech for a terrorist? Or, why the governor hates me
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...]
Health insurance is NOT health care!
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...]
Sheila Bair at UMass
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...]
Cost of College: Notes from America’s Most Indebted Generation
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...]
Should I cover over my Patrick sticker?
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...]
Tick-Tocco: The clock’s running on UMass chair
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...]
Patrick keeps hands off of UMess
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...]
UMass faculty: No confidence in Wilson, trustees
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...]