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More than 1,000 seventh grade students from Keith Middle School, Normandin Middle School, and Roosevelt Middle School in New Bedford will visit UMass Dartmouth on March 21, 23 and 28 to get an up-close look at college life. The initiative is funded by the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts - Jacobs Family Educational Attainment Fund...

Dr. Robert E. Johnson was named chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth today by a unanimous vote of the UMass Board of Trustees. Johnson, president of Becker College in Worcester since 2010, was recommended for the UMass Dartmouth chancellorship by UMass President Marty Meehan...

Students of public higher education, already reeling from tuition and fee increases this year, can expect more of the same this Fall. As the Baker Administration and state lawmakers prepare to grapple with a budget for the fiscal year that begins July1st, one thing appears likely, the cost of attending UMASS Dartmouth and Bristol Community College is going up again...

A UMass Dartmouth student who is also an Iraqi refugee will be accompanying U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. The Massachusetts Democrat says Tiba Faraj will be her guest at the speech...

UMass President Marty Meehan has invited the three finalists for UMass Dartmouth Chancellor position to visit the campus. The three finalists will meet with students, faculty and staff, as well as community leaders, from March 1st through the 3rd...

The UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Search Committee has announced the three finalists to become the next chancellor of the university. Becker College President Robert E. Johnson, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Oakland University James P...

The National Science Foundation has awarded UMass Dartmouth Associate Professor of STEM Education and Teacher Development Walter Stroup a $457,755 grant to develop new strategies for middle school and high school teachers to excite their students about science, technology, engineering and math careers. ...

A UMass Dartmouth assistant professor has received a grant of almost $800,000 to advance science and technology education for English Language Learners. Dr. Shakhnoza Kayumova of the Kaput Center for Research and Innovation in STEM Education received the $778,700 grant from the National Science Foundation through the prestigious CAREER Award for Faculty Early Career Development...

The two UMass Dartmouth professors of Iranian descent that were detained coming back from France over the weekend under President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration have released a statement through the university: January 31, 2017 Statement from UMass Dartmouth professors Mazdak Tootkaboni and Arghavan Louhghalam We are happy and relieved to be home and back to work, doing what we lov

The travel restrictions imposed by the Trump Administration drew protesters into the streets again over the weekend. Restricting travel from countries with direct ties to terrorism is not new and has not been controversial when Democrats have done it, but of course anything that Trump does results in hysteria from the left and it's P ...