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	University of Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The University of Massachusetts Amherst was known as the University of Massachusetts from 1947 until the creation of the UMass system.
		The University of Massachusetts (officially nicknamed UMass) is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
		From 1996 to 2003, the President of the University was William Bulger, president of the Massachusetts State Senate for seventeen years, and prominent and influential Democratic politician with roots in South Boston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Massachusetts (593 words)

	University of Massachusetts Boston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		University of Massachusetts Boston, or UMass Boston is a university in Boston, Massachusetts in the northeastern United States.
		It is part of the University of Massachusetts system.
		The university relocated from downtown Boston to its current campus on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston in 1974.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Boston (386 words)

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		The public college and university system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts comprises fifteen community colleges, nine state colleges and the five campuses of the University of Massachusetts.
		Massachusetts public higher education is a system with a distinguished past, increasing pride and unlimited potential.
		Massachusetts state colleges are strategically located to facilitate access to baccalaureate and master's degree programs for Commonwealth residents who meet their high standards for admission.
	www.framingham.edu /catalog2001/catalog_mission.htm (552 words)

	AFT - Higher Ed Department - More News - 2002 - University of Massachusetts Faculty Federation Tries To Address the ...
		In late 2001, the Massachusetts Legislature quickly passed an early retirement plan for state employees that included faculty and staff in the University of Massachusetts system.
		According to Daniel Georgianna, president of the University of Massachusetts Faculty Federation (UMFF), this plan was set up in direct response to the state's fiscal crisis--a budgetary situation that state officials are leaning on as a rationale for cutting budgets.
		In short, the early retirement system is structured to replace full-time, tenured faculty with new faculty who are part-time, non-tenured and, most important for the state, lower-paid faculty.
	www.aft.org /higher_ed/news/2002/umass2.htm (572 words)

	UH -Top Education Stories - Politics and Economics Join in University Crisis
		Bulger of harming the university's reputation, a number of professors here say they have a different concern: that his political troubles are overshadowing what is happening at their university.
		But his supporters, including the university's board of trustees, many alumni and some legislators, say that he has greatly increased private giving to the University of Massachusetts, and helped ward off even steeper cuts during the first two years of the state budget crisis, in 2001 and 2002.
		The university's budget woes are painfully clear in the tiny, dilapidated office of Richard Burt, a professor of English who is moving to a new job at the University of Florida.
	www.uh.edu /ednews/2003/nytimes/200307/20030722coll.html (1232 words)

	About UMass Dartmouth - About UMass Dartmouth - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
		Founded in 1895, the university is a public institution with a proud history of providing a high quality education at a sensible price.
		The university comprises five colleges—the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering, the Charlton College of Business, the College of Nursing, and the College of Visual and Performing Arts—as well as the School for Marine Sciences and Technology.
		The 5-campus University of Massachusetts is governed by a 22-member Board of Trustees and led by President Jack M. Wilson.
	www.umassd.edu /about (436 words)

	AFT - Higher Ed Department - More News - 2002 - Massachusetts Governor Reneges on University Pay Raises
		In a move unprecedented in Massachusetts history, acting Gov. Jane Swift vetoed raises for 13,200 employees in the University of Massachusetts system that all the parties had negotiated and finalized over a year ago.
		In the week before the legislature wrapped up its summer session, Swift announced she would rescind $29.6 million of the university's budget that was to cover contractual obligations to faculty, administrators and support staff in five unions in the system.
		Dan Georgianna, president of the University of Massachusetts (Dartmouth) Faculty Federation/AFT, said his members are angry and frustrated at the betrayal.
	www.aft.org /higher_ed/news/2002/governor_raises.htm (229 words)

	Higher Education in Massachusetts
		The public higher education system in Massachusetts is committed to ensuring that all Massachusetts residents have the opportunity to benefit from a higher education that enriches their lives and advances their contributions to civic life, economic development, and social progress in the Commonwealth.
		To that end, the programs and services of the public system must meet standards of quality commensurate with the benefits it promises and must be truly accessible to the people of the Commonwealth in all their diversity.
		The system, coordinated by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, is divided into three segments, complementary in character and mission: 15 community colleges, nine state colleges, and the five campuses of the University of Massachusetts.
	www.internationalstudentguidetotheusa.com /states/Massachusetts (249 words)

	College and University Search - University of Massachusetts Lowell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The University began as the Lowell Normal School, founded in 1894 to prepare students to become teachers, and the Lowell Textile School, founded in 1895 to train technicians and managers for the textile industry.
		The mission of the University of Massachusetts Lowell is to provide to students an affordable education of high quality and to focus some of its scholarship and public service on assisting sustainable regional economic and social development.
		University of Massachusetts Lowell's student activities is home to more than 100 student-run organizations representing diverse groups and a wide range of interests.
	www.collegebound.net /college/u_mass_lowell/profile.html (330 words)

	CL-1: Learning Through Technology (LT^2): Case Studies: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
		The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD), a regional comprehensive university, is one of five campuses of the University of Massachusetts System, the largest university system in New England.
		In 1969, it became a comprehensive university and was renamed the Southeastern Massachusetts University.
		At the turn of the 21st Century, UMD was a comprehensive university serving some 6,000 students (largely commuters), and had 300 faculty organized into five colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Industry, the College of Engineering, the College of Nursing and the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
	www.wcer.wisc.edu /archive/CL1/ilt/case/umass/RA_institution.htm (266 words)

	Employer Profile: University of Massachusetts Amherst
		A leading center for public higher education in the Northeast, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has gained a reputation for excellence in a growing number of fields, for its wide and varied academic offerings, and for its expanding historic roles in education, research, and public service.
		The flagship campus of the Commonwealth's University system, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a major research university enrolling more than 24,000 students, from the entire United States and nearly 100 countries.
		Established in 1863 under the Morrill Land Grant Act as Massachusetts Agricultural College, and opened in 1867 on a 310-acre campus with 4 faculty members, 4 buildings and 56 students, "Mass Aggie" became Massachusetts State College in 1931 and the University of Massachusetts in 1947 during a post-World War II growth surge.
	chronicle.com /jobs/profiles/1679.htm?pg=i (400 words)

	CNN.com - Massachusetts university shake-up proposed - Feb. 27, 2003
		University of Massachusetts President William Bulger, under fire over his relationship with his mobster brother, could lose his job under a shake-up proposed by Gov. Mitt Romney.
		The restructuring plan would dismantle the 59,000-student university system, spinning off the flagship Amherst campus, privatizing three schools, including the medical school in Worcester, and merging six campuses.
		Under Romney's proposal, the current five-campus system would be replaced with seven regional systems to work more closely with the nine state colleges, 15 community colleges and local businesses.
	www.cnn.com /2003/EDUCATION/02/27/massachusetts.university.ap/index.html (373 words)

	News & Announcements - University of Massachusetts
		The University of Massachusetts System will offer emergency admission to qualified students whose matriculation at colleges and universities on the Gulf Coast was interrupted by the damage from Hurricane Katrina.
		Worcester State College President Janelle Ashley, Chair of the Massachusetts State Colleges Council of Presidents, added, "The Massachusetts State Colleges are pleased to join with the University of Massachusetts and the Community Colleges in opening our doors to higher education students who are displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
		This is an official page/publication of the University of Massachusetts' President's Office.
	www.massachusetts.edu /?fuseaction=generic.10&item_ID=235 (434 words)

	University of Massachusetts Boston - College Closeup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The University of Massachusetts Boston was founded in 1964 by the state legislature to provide the opportunity for superior education at a moderate cost at a public campus located in the state’s capital city of Boston.
		The University of Massachusetts Boston is a community of scholars who take pride in academic excellence, diversity, research, and service.
		The University looks for students with a strong academic background, as determined by a recalculated grade point average, and each candidate’s academic program choices, motivation, achievement, and annual progress are closely scrutinized.
	www.petersons.com /ugchannel/code/idd.asp?sponsor=1&inunId=9258 (1926 words)

	News & Events - University of Wisconsin System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		She went to Massachusetts-Amherst, the 23,000-student flagship of the five-campus University of Massachusetts System, in 1997.
		Prior to her appointment at UW-Madison, Marrett was an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina (1968-69) and an assistant/associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University (1969-74).
		She received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University in 1996, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996.
	www.wisconsin.edu /news/2001/r010608a.htm (724 words)

	Welcome to the University of Massachusetts - University of Massachusetts
		The University of Massachusetts has been providing high quality educational opportunities for Massachusetts residents and for students and faculty from all over the world for more than 140 years.
		The University is presently entering a growth period in which we are investing in increased student financial aid, new faculty and new facilities, including the building of new laboratories, classrooms and dormitories.
		The University of Massachusetts is increasingly being recognized as a great educational choice.
	www.massachusetts.edu (307 words)

	Massachusetts Board of Higher Education: About Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Massachusetts Public Higher Education is a SYSTEM with a distinguished past, increasing and measurable accomplishments, and dedicated to being recognized as having one of the nation’s most outstanding array of institutions.
		It comprises 15 community colleges, nine state colleges, and five campuses of the University of Massachusetts.
		The system exists to provide accessible, affordable, relevant, and rigorous programs that adapt to meet changing individual and societal needs for education and employment.
	www.mass.edu /about/home.asp?id=2 (166 words)

	University of Massachusetts Boston Graduate Programs
		The University of Massachusetts Boston is a community of scholars that prides itself on academic excellence, diversity, and its commitment to serving students and the greater Boston community.
		With campuses at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester, the University of Massachusetts serves more than 57,000 students and is the largest university system in New England.
		In collaboration with the university's Graduate Studies Committee, the Office of Graduate Studies exercises overall review and supervision of graduate programs, and provides guidance for the development of new programs, as well as for the maintenance of academic standards within existing programs.
	www.umb.edu /admissions/grad_catalog/index.html (772 words)

	Daily Collegian - Presidential student forum scheduled today
		The University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, in conjunction with the President Search Committee, is encouraging the UMass community to attend an open forum addressing the search for the next president of the UMass system.
		The five-campus University of Massachusetts system has been without a president since the resignation of William M. Bulger on Sept. 1.
		Currently mired in a budget crisis, the University of Massachusetts system has come under fire by Governor Mitt Romney, who, as part of his administration's 2004 fiscal budget proposal, sought to eliminate the president's office while also privatizing the Amherst campus in an effort he said would improve the system's efficiency.
	www.dailycollegian.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=81a53c40-1343-4be5-9ec9-92f2893d4930 (382 words)

	University of Massachusetts Boston - In-Depth Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		UMass Boston is a member of the Boston Library Consortium, which includes the libraries of Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Tufts University, all five campuses of the University of Massachusetts, Wellesley College, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
		The University of Massachusetts Boston does not have on-campus housing, and all students are responsible for their own living arrangements.
		The University of Massachusetts Boston was founded in 1964 to provide superb educational opportunities for the people of the commonwealth, especially those of the greater Boston area.
	www.petersons.com /GradChannel/code/IDD.asp?inunId=9258&typeVC=INSTVC&sponsor=1 (1413 words)

	UMTC Home Page
		The University of Massachusetts Transportation Center is responsible for promoting transportation research and outreach services that engage academic resources throughout the University of Massachusetts System.
		The Center's operations are supported by University funds and through contracts with state and federal agencies as well as with non-governmental entities.
		Historically, the majority of the Center's activities have involved faculty and staff on the Amherst Campus, although a significant level of research is conducted on the Lowell and Dartmouth campuses as well.
	www.ecs.umass.edu /umtc/index.shtml (115 words)

	CCS Labs - Computer Science - University of Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Real-Time Systems Group works on areas related to Hard Real-Time systems, whose proper operation depends not only on the correctness of the results but also their timeliness.
		Our areas of interest include architectural and operating system support for hard real-time systems, scheduling mechanisms for multi-tasking environments under dynamic conditions, and the composable design of adaptable software systems that integrate hard real-time with fault-tolerance, including issues relating to the design-time and run-time assurance of their correctness, timeliness, predictability and reliability properties.
		In novel as well as traditional transactional domains, we are studying the essential ingredients of transaction systems (in particular, those of recovery support) and their composition and interaction.
	www-ccs.cs.umass.edu (184 words)

	University of Massachusetts Amherst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The University of Massachusetts Amherst is the founding campus of the University of Massachusetts system.
		On the University of Massachusetts Amherst virtual campus you will find undergraduate credit courses and three master's degree programs: MBA Professional Program, Master of Public Health for Professionals, and Master of Science (Nursing) in Community/School Health.
		Access to the excellence of the University is now within the reach of all those who have been unable to become part of our residential community.
	www.ecollege.com /ep/UniversityMa.learn (292 words)

	Grad Profiles - University of Massachusetts-Boston Gerontology
		The University of Massachusetts Boston was founded in 1964 and is the second-largest campus in the University of Massachusetts system.
		The Ph.D. program in gerontology offered by the University of Massachusetts Boston prepares a select group of skilled researchers and policy analysts to extend the frontiers of this growing field through research, teaching, or policy development.
		In 2004-–05, the cost per credit for resident students was $128 with a maximum of $1595 per semester and nonresident students paid $436.50 per credit with a maximum of $5379 per semester.
	www.gradprofiles.com /u-mass-boston-gerontology.html (1088 words)

	Massachusetts Environmental Ventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		MASSACHUSETTS ENVIRONMENTAL VENTURES is published for the business community by the Environmental Business and Technology Center located in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
		Instead, the system monitors the narrow-width bond or peaks produced by the spectrometer, which are individual to each compound, to identify the substances that are present in a given sample.
		Thermo Fibergen is developing and commercializing equipment and systems to recover valuable materials for increasing volumes of pulp residue generated by plants that produce recycled pulp and paper.
	www.p2pays.org /ref/11/10363.htm (6040 words)

	WPI News & Events - New Director Appointed at Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and Science
		He succeeds James Hamos who moved to the president's office of the University of Massachusetts system as a senior associate in academic affairs.
		Salvatelli is a member of the Central Massachusetts Principals' Center for School-Business Initiatives, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and the Massachusetts Association of Elementary Principals Legislative Committee.
		The academy was founded in August of 1992 by the Massachusetts Legislature to provide a unique learning environment for high school juniors and seniors with exceptional aptitude in mathematics and science.
	www.wpi.edu /News/Releases/19990/massacaddirector.html (620 words)

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