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Racial, economic disparities in spotlight Last week’s decision by Gov. Charlie Baker to keep all public and private schools closed through the end of the academic year drew support from city officials and leaders in the education field, with most viewing... Read more
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco was unanimously appointed as the new chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston on Monday by the university system's board of trustees. A search committee last month identified Suarez-Orozco, a dean at the University of... Read more
A search committee named Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, a dean at the University of California Los Angeles, as its lone finalist Tuesday for the University of Massachusetts Boston chancellorship after months of searching and interviews with 11 potential... Read more
After interviewing 11 candidates, members of the UMass Boston Chancellor Search Committee plan to meet next week and could then select finalists for the post. Identities of candidates become public at the finalist stage, and the committee said in a... Read more
The committee searching for the next chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston wrapped up three days of interviews on Tuesday having met with 11 candidates vying to lead the Columbia Point campus. The search committee, chaired by UMass trustee... Read more
The University of Massachusetts Building Authority today issued a Request for Information (RFI) to seek a private developer for the historic Calf Pasture Pumping Station and an adjacent site on Columbia Point. The ten-acres are the latest section of the... Read more
Faculty at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday presented trustees with a petition reflecting their continued concerns with a UMass Amherst facility in Newton, asking for a greater voice in the plans and more transparency... Read more
Last week, I stood in a packed gymnasium at English High School right here in Boston and watched Governor Baker as he signed a nation-leading education funding equity bill into law. The bill corrects our Commonwealth’s 26-year-old K-12 funding formula,... Read more
Boston City Council President Andrea J. Campbell, who this summer released Action for Boston Children, a comprehensive plan to accelerate achievement for all BPS students, will host a discussion on the implementation of the plan on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 8 a... Read more
Two well-respected Dorchester institutions have joined forces to plan a new, $30 million indoor sports and community center that would be built on what is now a little-used field next to the McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point. The Boys and Girls... Read more

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