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| Motto | Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem; "By the sword we seek peace; but peace only under liberty"; also, "Students First" |
| Established | 1863 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | US $93,100,000 |
| Chancellor | John V. Lombardi |
| Staff | 1,148 full-time, 190 part-time |
| Undergraduates | 19,934 |
| Postgraduates | 5,699 |
| Location | Amherst, MA, USA |
| Campus | 1,463 acres (5,87 km²) |
| Athletics | Official site |
| Mascot | Sam the Minuteman |
| Website | http://www.umass.edu |
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as UMass Amherst or simply UMass) is a land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study.
US News and World Report's 2007 edition of America's Best Colleges ranked UMass Amherst as one of the top 100 universities in the nation, placing it at #98, and ranking it the joint 46th amongst Public Universities.[1]
[edit] History
The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.
In 2007, an undergraduate student filed, in the United States district court, Springfield, Massachusetts, claims against UMass alleging the university and particularly a graduate student, Jeremy D. Cushing, teaching assistant, unilaterally breached an agreed upon fall 2006 Philosophy 161 syllabus's contractual terms by arbitrarily reducing a 92.1 numerical semester average to a final grade award of C; this occurred in contravention of the syllabus's sectional grading scheme.
Mr. Cushing, in an e-mail to the student, annouced that he did not like the way the class fared accroding to the present grading scheme, so he revised it to measure a different outcome. Once the new outcome produced a 84 in plaintiff/student's favor, he then decided askance to this method to issue a final grade of C.
The case remains active in federal district court as 07:cv-30015-KPN.
[edit] Libraries
The W.E.B. DuBois library is the tallest library in the United States[2] and the tallest academic library in the world[3]. It is also well regarded for its innovative architectual design, which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building[4]. It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African-American activist and Massachusetts native W.E.B. DuBois as well as being the depository for other important collections, such as the papers of the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte.
Special Collections[5] include
- Social change and movements for social change
- African American history and culture
- Labor, work, and industry
- Literature and the arts
- Agriculture
- The history of the region
The Integrated Sciences and Engineering Library is the other main library on campus. It is located on the 2nd floor of the Lederle Graduate Research Center (occasionally referred to as the Lederle "low rise").
UMass Amherst is home to the DEFA Film Library [4], the only archive and study collection of East German films outside of Europe.
[edit] Academic departments
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[edit] Research Labs at UMass Amherst
- Autonomous Learning Laboratory (Computer Science)
- Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (Computer Science)
- Knowledge Discovery Laboratory (Computer Science)
- Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics, and Graphics (Mathematics)
- Center for Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Computation (Mathematics)
- Center for Economic Development
- Political Economy Research Institute
- Center for Education Policy
- The Environmental Institute
- Center for Public Policy and Administration
- Labor Relations and Research Center
- Virtual Center for Supernetworks
- Wireless Systems Laboratory (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering)
[edit] Five College Consortium
UMass Amherst is part of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows its students to attend classes, borrow books, work with professors, etc., at four other Pioneer Valley institutions: Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges.
All five colleges are located within 10 miles of Amherst center, and are accessible by public bus. The five share an astronomy department and some other undergraduate and graduate departments.
[edit] Commonwealth College
The Commonwealth College (CC) is the honors college at UMass. The honors college provides students the opportunity to intensify their UMass academic curriculum. The requirements of the college are to complete a set number of the required classes for one's major at the honors level as well as complete a senior year thesis or capstone project and several Dean's book courses. Completion of the CC courseload is required in order to graduate the University with any Latin honors designations, such as magna or summa cum laude. The CC provides honors students an accelerated pace of learning to supplement their course load at UMASS and an additional community of students to interact with outside of their academic department.
[edit] Buildings and Layout
Home to over 25,000 students, faculty and staff, the campus () extends about a mile from the Campus Center in all directions. The university owns significant amounts of land in the nearby town of Sunderland.
The campus may be thought of as a series of concentric rings. In the outermost ring are parking lots, the admissions center, playing fields and barns for the animal science program. In the middle ring there are the five residential areas and dining commons. The innermost ring has most of the classroom buildings and research labs.
Anticipating the drastic increase in student population in the 1960s and 1970s, the University underwent major expansion. Many of the buildings were constructed relatively quickly from poured, exposed concrete, which reflected much of the styling of the era. The most prominent examples of exposed reinforced concrete construction are the Campus Center and Hotel, Fine Arts Center, Herter Hall, and Whitmore Administration Building. Although this architectural styling is sometimes considered dated or unattractive today, several of these buildings are considered architectural landmarks, notably the Fine Arts Center by Roche-Dinkeloo, designers of the United Nations Plaza. There are several recently completed buildings that are both modern and functional. Some examples of these buildings include the Mullins Center, The Polymer Science Facility, the Computer Science Building, and the Engineering and Computer Science II facility.
South Campus The Isenberg School of Management has its buildings in the southernmost part of campus near the Visitors Center and the Newman Center, the Catholic student center. In addition to being the site of the main administration building, Whitmore, the southeast side of campus has buildings mainly dedicated to the humanities and fine arts. Buildings include Herter, Bartlett, Mahar and the Fine Arts Center (Abbreviated "FAC"). Between Whitmore, the FAC and Isenberg lies the Haigis Mall, a local stop on both the PVTA and Peter Pan bus lines. The buildings on the southwest side of campus house the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. These include Dickinson and Tobin.
The 26 story W.E.B. DuBois library and the Old Chapel are the notable buildings in the center of campus. The buildings in the center of campus, Goodell and Machmer are mainly used by the Commonwealth Honors College.
Student Union The Student Union Building houses most of the University's Registered Student Organizations (RSO's) and it is the home of the Student Government Association. Other facilities include the Campus Design and Copy (CD&C) center, a convenience store, a ball room, and a student lounge. Several student-run businesses and co-ops are also present including the Fair trade convenience store and bagel shop People's Market and a vegan/vegetarian eatery Earthfoods Cafe.
South College South College is the home of UMass' world renowned linguistics department, and is the oldest building on campus. The DuBois library was intended to be an annex to South College.
Campus Center Designed by famed architect Marcel Breuer, the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center is located adjacent to the Student Union and is accessible via passageways from both the Student Union as well as from the main level of the parking garage.
On the concourse level are the campus store, restrooms, graduate student lounge, which serves beer, and the Bluewall, which contains a cafe, a smoothie stand and a fair trade coffee stand. This level is a high-traffic area throughout most of the day with students and faculty not only using it as a 'pass through' from one building to another, but also as the central hub of on-campus life. Many people often pass the time between classes on this level and it is common to find vendors and organizations operating from fold-out tables along either side.
The lower level of the campus center has multiple conference rooms and a large auditorium. Within the central space of the lower level are telephones, ATMs, vending, as well as couches and television. The offices of the University newspaper, The Daily Collegian, can be found at the far end of the level. One of the conference rooms is home to the UMass Science Fiction Society's library which is the second largest Science Fiction library on the east coast.
The top floor of the Campus Center, "The Top of the Campus" is currently undergoing a complete renovation. When finished it will be home to a state of the art teaching kitchen, beverage lab and dining room facility.
Campus Center Hotel Above the concourse level is the Campus Center Hotel(official website), a five-level full service facility with 116 rooms, including two suites located in the Campus Center. The Campus Center Hotel is the training ground for the university's Hospitality and Tourism Management students.
North Campus The north side of campus is mostly dedicated to science and engineering, and many buildings there are newer than their counterparts in the humanities. The Physics Department primarily uses Hasbrouck Lab, located at 666 North Pleasant Street. The Lederle Graduate Research Tower is the largest building on the north side, housing the Math department on its sixteenth floor. As the Math Department headquarters, the sixteenth floor is prominently labeled 42. The Silvio Conte Polymer Research facility is located in North campus.
Computer Science The Computer Science department recently moved into an airy new building built for them on the edge of campus, though classes are usually taught elsewhere. Between the imposing concrete LGRT, the second-story walkway from it to its sister structure the LGRC, the glass-and-aluminum Computer Science building, and other new buildings for the Engineering and Polymer Science departments, North Campus looks more "high-tech" than the rest of campus.
Sports, Recreation, and Exercise Major sporting events, such as UMass's hockey and basketball team games, are held in the Mullins Center, amidst the fields to the west. Other locales for sporting events include Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium (where UMass holds its football games) and Garber Field, which is an artificial-turf field adjacent to Boyden Gym used for lacrosse, field hockey, and various team practices.
On campus there are two major gyms, the Totman Center near Northeast and Sylvan and the Boyden Gym to the south. Each houses basketball courts, a weight/fitness room which is free for undergraduates, and various other resources such as racquetball and squash courts. To the west of campus are numerous fields used for recreation and for soccer and baseball. There is also a set of tennis courts located north of Boyden.
In addition to Totman and Boyden, there is Curry Hicks Cage, which hosts a small indoor track, a pool, basketball courts and a weight room. It is also occasionally used as a venue for guest speakers (such as the fall 2006 visit from comedian Bob Saget) and for the Western Mass high school basketball championships and other similar sporting events.
Campus Bus System The PVTA bus system serves not only the University of Massachusetts campus, but also the surrounding colleges and communities. This bus system is run primarily by University students and is free for students, which allows them to easily get to classes at the other four colleges.
[edit] Residential areas
At UMass Amherst, first and second year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year. Upper-class students who have continuously lived on campus during their first and sophomore years are guaranteed housing as long as they choose to live on campus. If, however, a student is admitted after their sophomore year, or moves off campus, and wants to move back onto campus, they are not guaranteed housing, but instead must go through a housing lottery, since demand outstrips supply. Building and room selection is accomplished by a complex system that takes into account building seniority as well as class year; those choosing to move from their building are subject to a lottery system. There are approximately 12,000 students living on-campus.
Students living on the UMass campus live in one of the six residential areas: North, Sylvan, Northeast, Central, Orchard Hill, Southwest. Several residential areas have a student-run business. All campus residence halls are staffed by Resident Assistants, who provide programming and community development, as well as enforce policies, and have quiet hours, which start at 9 pm on weekdays, 12 midnight on the weekends, but may vary from hall to hall.
[edit] North Residential Area
Recently completed, the newest residence halls on campus opened in the Fall of 2006. Located between Sylvan and Northeast, these apartment-style dormitories house approximately 850 undergraduates in four buildings. The buildings are currently named North A, B, C, and D. Each unit comprises four single bedrooms, two full bathrooms, and a shared common area including a full kitchen. Other amenities include Ethernet and cable access, central air, and laundry on-site. This is a nine-month housing area, which allows students to remain on campus from September to May.
[edit] Sylvan Residential Area
Sylvan is adjacent to the North Residential Area, and before the opening of North in 2006, was the newest residential area on campus, construction having been completed in the early 1970s. Sylvan is distinctive for offering suite-style living in a shady wooded area. Sylvan derives from Latin silva, sylva, "a wood or grove." Each residence hall contains 64 suites and each suite is either all-male or all-female. For Fall 2007, mixed-gender suites are experimentally available.
Each suite is a mixture of double and single rooms, a common bathroom, and a common living room. Suites accommodate six to eight residents. Sylvan is also home to the Sylvan Snack Bar (SSB) one of seven of the student run businesses on campus. The SSB delivers food right to students doors in the Sylvan living area. The snack bar, located in the basement of the McNamara building, provides great food and a student hang out for the Sylvan residents.
[edit] Northeast Residential Area
Northeast is across the street from North and Sylvan. The residential area consists of nine buildings assembled in a rectangle surrounding a grassy quad. Northeast is one of the oldest residential areas on campus and has what one might call classic academic architecture, consisting of red brick buildings and gabled/shingled roofs. Buildings of note in Northeast include Knowlton, which is an all female dorm, Hamlin, which is an all male dorm, as well as Lewis House, which provides international students with 9-month housing. Thatcher House is unique because it has a foreign language program, which includes several floors, each with a different language. The residents of these floors are encouraged to speak the language they are studying with their floor-mates. Also of particular interest is the 2 in 20 floor in the fourth floor of Mary Lyon House, which houses some Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered students and their allies.
[edit] Central Residential Area
Central has nine residence halls located along a hill on the east side of campus. Central is also home to the Central Art Gallery in Wheeler. It also has several non-residential buildings.
Central is organized into 4 clusters of buildings: Gorman-Wheeler and Brett-Brooks at the bottom of the hill, Baker, Chadbourne and Greenough ("BCG") organized in a quad halfway up the hill, and Van Meter-Butterfield ("VMB") at the top of the hill. Gorman Hall is a building-wide Living Learning Community called NUANCE. Founded in 1989, it is a diversity awareness Living Learning Community. Wheeler is home to the Central Art Gallery and currently houses the hockey team. Brett is home to the baseball and hockey teams, and is completely wheelchair-accessible. Brooks offers alcohol-free housing. Baker houses the Area Office. Chadbourne houses the Josephine White Eagle Native American Cultural Center. As of 2006 both Van Meter and Butterfield are freshman-only EPOCH dorms. The Greenough dorm is also home to the Greenough Sub Shop, another one of the student run businesses.
[edit] Orchard Hill Residential Area
Completed in 1964, The Orchard Hill residence area is north of Central, and has four residence halls: Dickinson, Webster, Grayson and Field. Orchard Hill is known for its yearly spring event, Bowl Weekend, which is put on each year by the Orchard Hill Area Government. Many students from the Commonwealth College honors program live in Orchard Hill as part of Learning Communities. Orchard hill also houses a number of Talent Advancement Programs. [5]. Orchard Hill also refers to the hill on which the Orchard Hill Observatory and a cell phone tower are located. The cell phone tower also supports a microwave relay system for internet and land phone service at the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory, located on a peninsula within the Quabbin Reservoir. Field also houses Sweets 'n More, a student run business on campus.
[edit] Southwest Residential Area
Southwest is the largest residential area, and it houses half of the four campus dining commons currently in operation (Hampshire in the north and the newly-renovated Berkshire in the south; Hampden, a former dining common, is located in between and still houses several classrooms, offices, and the Southwest Cafe). Southwest is composed of five 22-story towers (Kennedy and Coolidge are side-by-side in the north and John Quincy Adams, John Adams and Washington are arranged in a cluster in the south) and 11 smaller residence halls, also known as low-rises (the height of which varies from building to building), holding a total of around 5,500 students. The low-rises are arranged as such: two clusters in the north (James-Emerson and Thoreau-Melville). a cluster in the south (Cance, Moore, and Pierpont); and located along Sunset Avenue to the east are two more clusters (Prince-Crampton in the north and MacKimmie-Patterson in the south). Cluster offices are located in James, Melville, Cance, Prince, MacKimmie, Pierpont, and in each of the five towers. Additionally, Thoreau and Cance are home to the area office for the north and south portions of Southwest, respectively. Moore is home to the Residence Life Resource Center.
Southwest houses approximately 50% of the students living on campus. Southwest is known for its lively, festive, and active community spirit. After both victories and losses by the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox in 2002, 2003 and 2004, as well as after the December 2006 UMass defeat in the NCAA Division I-AA football championship game, students held large impromptu festive gatherings (also referred to as riots) in the Southwest Mall which led to injuries, incidents of property destruction, and significant police involvement. Although the Patriots were not involved in Super Bowl XLI, campus security was tightened on Super Bowl Sunday in 2007 as a precautionary measure.
[edit] Parking on Campus
Parking at UMass is open to all students for a fee. Cost varies depending on seniority and location. The most typical student parking permits range from $60 to $300 for the year. It is a color coded system with Green, Purple and Yellow Lots available to students. Purple Lots are typically closest to the dorm/housing areas; Yellow Lots are the cheapest but the farthest away; Green lots are for commuter students[6].
[edit] Information Technology
UMass Amherst is a member of Internet 2. At UMass, SPIRE is a web-based system used to register for courses, as well as a variety of other tasks. In the winter of 2003, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) rolled out the SPIRE system, which is based on PeopleSoft's student information system. Some have claimed that the university purchased PeopleSoft as the result of an executive conflict of interest. PeopleSoft is currently being sued by Cleveland State University for fraud.
On October 21, 2005 UMass Amherst was designated as the first-in-the-nation Microsoft IT Showcase School by CEO Steve Ballmer, recognizing the university's innovative leadership in applying information technology to teaching and learning.[6]
Many UMass Amherst faculty make use of Blackboards WebCT learning management system (which has been branded as SPARK on campus[7]) for deivery of course content via the web.
The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) provides all faculty, staff, and students with an OIT account which provides access to a variety of services including email (UMail), online storage space (UDrive), web hosting space, and blogging space.[8]
[edit] Athletics
UMass is a member of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The university is a member of the Atlantic Ten Conference, while playing ice hockey in the Hockey East Association. For football, UMass competes in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), a conference of the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS; known as Division I-AA before the 2006 season). UMass originally was known as the Statesmen, later the Aggies, then the Redmen, before changing their logo and nickname to the Minutemen. In a response to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American-themed mascots, they changed their mascot in 1972 to the Minuteman. This has been lauded by many in the NCAA as being one of the greatest name changes due to the "minuteman" relationship with Massachusetts and its historical context. Women's teams and athletes are known as Minutewomen. UMass considers Boston College and the University of Connecticut as their biggest rivals.
The 2006 season was the final season under which the football team competed in the Atlantic 10, as the A-10 Football Conference disbanded after the season with all current teams moving to the CAA. They defeated Montana 19-17 to advance to the championship game (first since 1998). UMass fell to Appalachian State in the national championship game by a score of 28-17 and finished the season with a record of 13-2.
First played in 1905 and held annually since 1995, UMass' basketball rivalry with Boston College is called the "Commonwealth Classic." The UMass basketball team also competed annually with the University of Connecticut in a game that was formerly known as the "U-Game" until UConn Coach Jim Calhoun chose not to continue it after new Coach Travis Ford's arrival. This series included a stunning UMass upset of the then-defending national champion Huskies on December 9th, 2004 at the Mullins Center. Over the 10 games of the revived series, from 1996 to 2006, UMass went 1-9.
During the 1990's the men's basketball team was known as one of the finest in the nation, holding the number one ranking in national polls for extended periods. Under the leadership of then-head coach John Calipari and players such as 1996 National Player of the Year Marcus Camby, Harper Williams and Lou Roe, the Minutemen participated in the NCAA Tournament each year between 1992 and 1998, and reached the Final Four in 1996. However, a subsequent NCAA investigation found that Camby illegally accepted a total of $28,000 from sports agents, and the school was forced to vacate its Final Four appearance. Camby eventually repaid the school the $151,000 in lost Final Four revenue that came as a result of the NCAA's ruling. While a Final Four banner still hangs from the rafters of the Mullins Center in defiance of the NCAA's ruling, the appearance is marked with an asterisk in official record books.
Notable UMass basketball alumni include Julius Erving, Marcus Camby, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, and Boston College head coach Al Skinner. The current coach of the Minutemen is Travis Ford.
UMass men's lacrosse reached the NCAA Championship Game in 2006, where they lost to the #1 ranked and undefeated University of Virginia. UMass, unseeded in the tournament, had to defeat three seeded teams (Cornell, Hofstra, Maryland) to make it to the championship game in Philadelphia. It was the first time any team had ever defeated the #4, #3, ad #2 seeded teams on it's way to facing #1 Virginia in the championship.
The University of Massachusetts has won two NCAA national championships, one in Division I-AA (now FCS) football in 1998, and the other in Division I women's lacrosse in 1982.
NCAA Division I Teams - Men's
Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football (Division I FCS), Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Skiing, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Track & Field
NCAA Division I Teams - Women's
Basketball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Rowing (Crew), Skiing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field
Athletic "Club" Groups
Baseball Club, Bicycle Racing Club, Crew Club, Curling Team, Fencing Team, Figure Skating Club, Men's Lacrosse Club, Rugby Club, Tae Kwon Do Team, Tennis Club, Volleyball Club (Men's), Water Polo Club (Men's), Water Polo Club (Women's), Women's Ice Hockey, Women's Rugby Club, Women's Volleyball Club, Wrestling Club, Ultimate (Zoodisc)
[edit] Student Government
The Student Government Association (SGA) is the undergraduate student governmental body, and provides funding for the many registered student organizations (RSOs) and agencies, including the Student Legal Services Office (SLSO) and the Student Center for Educational Research and Advocacy (SCERA). The SGA also makes formal recommendations on matters of Administration policy and advocates for undergraduate students to the Administration, non-student organizations, and local and state government.
The SGA has three branches: the President and Executive Cabinet, the Undergraduate Student Senate, and the Student Judiciary.
[edit] Area governments
There are a total of six area governments. Each of the campus's five residential areas has an area government, and there is also a Commuter Area Government to serve commuter students. Area governments provide social programming for their areas, and are in charge of the house councils for the dorms in their area. They also represent the needs and interests of students in their areas to the Administration, Housing Services, and the SGA.
[edit] House councils
Each residence hall or residential "cluster" (a group of residence halls) at UMass Amherst has a house council. House councils report to their respective area governments. Its budget comes from voluntary dues collected in return for access to common supplies (access to the kitchenette, rental access to vacuums, brooms, games, etc). House councils also engage in social programming for their halls or clusters, and advocate to housing staff in regards to concerns of students in their hall/cluster.
[edit] Registered Student Organizations
UMass Amherst has many registered student organizations (RSOs). These are funded by the Student Government Association (SGA), from the activity fee that all students pay. In recent years, the fee has been about $81. In order to start an RSO, one needs a group of at least 10 interested students, who then request the SGA for recognition. Each semester, the SGA reviews RSOs, and those which have too few members are considered inactive. Club Sports, which are non-NCAA athletic or organized sports teams, are considered RSOs.
[edit] Marching Band
UMass Amherst has one of the largest marching bands in New England. The Minuteman Marching Band consists of over 350 members and regularly plays at football games. The band also performs in various other places like Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bands of America, Boston, and on occasion Montreal.
[edit] Campus Life
[edit] Fraternities and Sororities
UMass is home to numerous fraternities and sororities. Most of them were located on North Pleasant Street until the University purchased five of the Greek houses in an effort to cut down partying at UMass. The five fraternities were purchased by UMass for 2.5 million dollars from Alpha Tau Gamma, Inc. who owned the property for many years. The houses were razed in November 2006. On 15 March 1873 the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity was founded at Old North Hall, it is one of only five recognized fraternity houses currently on or around campus.
[edit] The Daily Collegian
The student-operated newspaper, The Daily Collegian, is published Monday through Friday during the University of Massachusetts' calendar semester. The Collegian is independently funded, operating on advertising revenue. Founded in 1890, the paper began as Aggie Life, became the College Signal in 1901, the Weekly Collegian in 1914 and the Tri-Weekly Collegian in 1956. Published daily since 1967, the Collegian has been broadsheet since January 1994.
[edit] Notable Faculty
- Samuel Bowles (Economics)
- Richard D. Wolff (Economics)
- Stephen Resnick (Economics)
- Barbara Partee (Linguistics)
- Robert Paul Wolff (African-American Studies)
- Andrew Barto (Computer Science)
- Carl R. Fellers (Food Science and Technology)
- Neil Immerman (Computer Science)
- Jim Kurose (Computer Science)
- John J. McCarthy (Linguistics)
- Anna Nagurney (Finance and Operations Management)
- Don Towsley (Computer Science)
- Warren P. McGuirk (Physical Education)
- James Tate (English)
- Fred Feldman (Philosophy)
- Lynn Margulis (Biology and Evolutionary Science)
- Madeleine Blais (Journalism)
- Dick Minear (History)
- Wayne P Burleson (Electrical Engineering)
- Russell G Tessier (Electrical Engineering)
- George N. Parks (Music)
- Dennis L. Goeckel (Electrical Engineering)
- Sut Jhally (Communication)
[edit] Alumni
The slogan of the Alumni Association, "You were, You are. UMASS" The University is campaigning to get Alumni to purchase specialty Massachusetts license plates with the UMass Amherst logo. The proceeds from sales of the plates would go to help fund student scholarships. The University Alumni Association operates out of Memorial Hall.
See also: List of UMass Amherst Alumni
[edit] UMass Amherst in the news
[edit] Campus activism
While some students at UMass add to its reputation as a party school, others among the undergraduate and graduate population have also received press for their activism, including rallies to repeal the imposition of a Student and Exchange Visitor Information System Fee in 2003-2004, to protest for a more favorable contract for graduate employees in 2005, protesting tuition and fee hikes, making the university the second most expensive for in-state students (behind the University of Vermont) and many other campus issues.
[edit] "Most violent campus" controversy
On November 17, 2005, ABC News' Primetime reported University of Massachusetts at Amherst as having the highest rate of violent crime on a campus of its size.
UMass officials said the report was flawed in two ways: first, ABC used figures from 2002 and 2003, when UMass reported 57 and 58 violent crimes, and did not take into account the data from 2004, when only 28 violent crimes were reported; second, the news program calculated the rate of violent crime by dividing the number of crimes by the total enrollment rather than by the number of on-campus residents."'Just as you would not include visitors, commuters, and tourists to calculate the crime rate among a city's population, neither should an aggregate number including off-campus students be included in a calculation of an on-campus crime rate", O'Malley, the general counsel, wrote to ABC News.[9]
[edit] See also
- The Daily Collegian student newspaper.
- William S. Clark (1825-1886), professor, U.S. Senator, third president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and first vice president of Sapporo Agricultural College, Japan.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.clemson.edu/usnewsrankings/usnewstop50.htm
- ^ Tallest library in the United States
- ^ [1]
- ^ Colleges' moves to shake up libraries speak volumes
- ^ DuBois Library Special Collections
- ^ Microsoft IT Showcase School
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- ^ [3]
- ^ UMass raps data as "Primetime" prepares to air crime report, Sarah Schweitzer, Boston Globe, November 17, 2005.
[edit] External links
- UMass Amherst
- Official UMass athletics site
- University of Massachusetts System
- UMassOnline
- UMass Family Business Center
- Five Colleges, Incorporated
- UMass Amherst Computer Science Department
- UMass Office of Information Technology (OIT)
- Virtual Center for Supernetworks
- UMass Transit Services (the bus system—see also Pioneer Valley Transit Authority)
- Graduate Employee Organization
- Student Government Association
- Campus activities
- Greek life
- The Daily Collegian
- UMass Amherst unofficial wiki
- Daily Jolt at UMass Amherst - unofficial site
- Maps and aerial photos
- Street map from Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps
- Topographic map from TopoZone
- Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA
- Satellite image from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth
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