Posts Tagged ‘University of Massachusetts Amherst’
New England Conference for Student Success Calls for Proposals
by Erica Pritchard
June 15, 2012
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will host the third annual New England Conference for Student Success, “What Do We Mean By Student Success?,” on Friday, Sept. 21. The program committee seeks proposals for conference sessions from practitioners and scholars that emphasize programs aimed at fostering student success.
Proposals highlight promising ways of defining student success, interventions ...
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Four New England Universities Make Kiplinger’s Best Value List
by Wendy A. Lindsay
January 6, 2011
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine announced the “Best Values in Public Colleges 2011," its annual ranking of 100 public colleges and universities in the U.S.
Four New England institutions are on the list: the University of Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of New Hampshire and the University of Vermont. Among the 100 public colleges ...
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UMass Amherst Formalizes Three-Year Degree Program
by David Mabe
October 8, 2010
The University of Massachusetts Amherst will offer formal, three-year bachelors degree programs in selected academic disciplines. Beginning next fall, first-year students seeking majors in Economics, Music and Sociology can elect to travel a shortened route to their diplomas; other programs (e.g. Linguistics, Dance and Spanish) could be added to this pilot program in the future.
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