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( September 2017 ) University of Massachusetts Boston Type Public Established 1852 Boston State College 1964 UMass Boston Parent institution UMass System Academic affiliations APLU AAC&U AASCU Urban 13 / GCU Endowment $78.9 million ( 2015 ) Chancellor Barry Mills ( interim ) President Marty Meehan Provost Emily McDermott ( interim ) Academic staff 1,243 ( 2016 ) Students 16,847 ( 2016 ) Undergraduates 12,847 ( 2016 ) Postgraduates 4,000 ( 2016 ) Location Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts 42 ° 18 ′ 48 '' N 71 ° 02 ′ 18 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 42.313432 ° N 71.038445 ° W ﻿ / 42.313432 ; - 71.038445 Coordinates : 42 ° 18 ′ 48 '' N 71 ° 02 ′ 18 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 42.313432 ° N 71.038445 ° W ﻿ / 42.313432 ; - 71.038445 Campus Urban, 120 acres ( 0.49 km ) Colors Blue and White Nickname Beacons Sporting affiliations NCAA Division III -- Little East, NEHC Mascot Bobby Beacon Website www.umb.edu The University of Massachusetts Boston, also known as UMass Boston, is an urban public research university and the third - largest campus in the five - campus University of Massachusetts system. The university is on 120 acres ( 0.49 km ) on the Columbia Point peninsula in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. UMass Boston is the only public university in Boston. Students are primarily from Massachusetts but some are from other parts of the U.S. or different countries. Contents 1 History 1.1 Origins ( Pre-1964 ) 1.2 1964 -- 1974 : `` The Park Square Years '' 1.3 1974 -- 1988 : Harbor campus and Boston State College merger 1.4 1988 -- 2004 : Penney and Gora Chancellorships 1.5 2004 -- 2015 : New campus center and 25 - year master plan 1.6 2015 -- present : new buildings 1.7 Timeline 2 Campus 2.1 Off - site locations 2.2 Future campus development 3 Academics 3.1 Accreditation 3.2 Faculty 4 Institutes and centers 5 Athletics 6 Student activities 7 Notable alumni 8 Notes 9 References 9.1 Footnotes 9.2 Bibliography 10 External links History President of the Massachusetts Senate Maurice A. Donahue ( 1964 -- 1971 ) co-sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the Massachusetts Senate. Governor of Massachusetts Endicott Peabody ( 1963 -- 1965 ) signed the bill into law on June 18, 1964. The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers was renamed so in 1976. From 1927 until 1954, it was known as the Hotel Statler Boston, and from 1954 until 1976, as The Statler Hilton Boston. In February 1966, the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for UMass Boston to lease part of the building for faculty and departmental office space. John Hancock Tower in 2007. The land the skyscraper is built on was also a proposed location for the university campus in the 1960s until the John Hancock Insurance Company purchased the land and built the tower there instead. A later counterproposal for a 15 - acre campus south of the tower 's location made by the university was rejected by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Mayor of Boston John F. Collins ( 1960 -- 1968 ) opposed the university 's proposals to keep its campus in Downtown Boston. Origins ( pre-1964 ) The University of Massachusetts system dates back to the founding of Massachusetts Agricultural College under the Morrill Land - Grant Acts in 1863. However, prior to the founding of UMass Boston, the Amherst campus was the only public, comprehensive university in the state. Even as late as the 1950s, Massachusetts ranked at or near the bottom in public funding per capita for higher education, and proposals to expand the University of Massachusetts into Boston was opposed both by faculty and administrators at the Amherst campus and by the private colleges and universities in Boston. In 1962, the Massachusetts General Court expanded the University of Massachusetts system for the first time to Worcester, Massachusetts with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In 1963, UMass President John W. Lederle informed the General Court that more than 1,200 graduates of Boston area high schools qualified to attend the University of Massachusetts were denied admission to the Amherst campus due to lack of space, and despite opposition from the Amherst campus, endorsed expanding the UMass system with a commuter campus in Boston. At the time, there were 12,000 freshman applications to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with only 2,600 slots, yet the majority of the applicants lived in the Greater Boston area. In 1964, Massachusetts Senate President Maurice A. Donahue and State Senator George Kenneally introduced a bill to establish a Boston campus for the UMass system, with Majority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H. Quinn co-sponsoring the House bill, and the Massachusetts AFL -- CIO endorsing the legislation. The bill was opposed by several private colleges and universities in the Boston area, including Northeastern University, Boston University, and Boston College ( who argued that the state would be better off subsidizing the existing private institutions in the city ), as well as from Boston State College, the only public institution of higher education in the city ( who argued for expanding its campus on Huntington Avenue instead ). However, the Huntington Avenue building of Boston State College could not be expanded to accommodate a 15,000 - student campus, and the local news media and public opinion generally favored creating the new Boston campus for the UMass system. 1964 -- 1974 : `` the Park Square years '' On June 16, 1964, with a $200,000 appropriation, the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston was passed by the Massachusetts General Court and signed into law two days later by Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody. UMass President John W. Lederle began recruiting freshmen students, faculty, and administrative staff for the fall semester of 1965 ( with goals of 1,000 students and 80 faculty members ), and appointed his assistant at the Amherst campus, John W. Ryan, as UMass Boston 's first chancellor. Ryan recruited tenured faculty members from the Amherst campus to relocate and form the UMass Boston faculty, and appointed Amherst 's history professor Paul Gagnon and Amherst 's provost and biology professor Arthur Gentile to hire the humanities and natural science faculty members respectively. One faculty member that made the move was historian Robert M. Berdahl ( who later became Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, President of the University of Texas at Austin, and President of the Association of American Universities ). Gagnon, with the assistance of Harvard University sociologist David Riesman, also recruited junior faculty members through recommendations of graduate students by the department chairs of Ivy League and other prestigious private universities in the Boston area. Serving as the new university 's first provost, Gagnon became the most important faculty member in defining the curriculum and academic focus of the university, saying in June 1965 that `` The first aim of the University of Massachusetts at Boston must be to build a university in the ancient tradition of Western civilization... Along with creating a university in the great Western tradition, we must make it public and urban in all that these words imply in 1965. '' He would be the principal architect of the university 's attempt to create a Great Books program called the `` Coordinated Freshman Year English - History Program '', which prompted criticism and opposition from younger faculty members in the English and History Departments ( who wanted their students to have reading assignments that contained `` more politically ' relevant ' content '' ), from faculty in the social and natural sciences ( who felt their fields were being neglected ), and students ( many of whom were Vietnam War veterans or working - class single parents working one or two jobs to pay for school ), and that eventually led to its requirements being diluted and the program ultimately dismantled by the end of the 1960s. Freshman classes started for 1,240 undergraduate students in September 1965 at a renovated building located at 100 Arlington Street in the Park Square area of Downtown Boston, formerly the headquarters of the Boston Gas Company ( which had leased the building to the university ). Virtually the entire entering class were residents of Massachusetts, with the great majority living in the Greater Boston area and one - fourth living in the city of Boston itself. By the fall of 1968, the number of applications to UMass Boston for the fall semester had risen from 2,500 for fall 1965 to 5,700, and total enrollment had risen to 3,600. In the late 1960s, UMass Boston students on average were 23 years old, typically white and male, working part - or full - time, and either married or living with others in an apartment. UMass Boston also reportedly had the largest population of Vietnam War veterans than any university in the United States ( many of whom had been recently discharged ), and the largest population of African American students of all universities in Massachusetts. In February 1966, the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the building at 100 Arlington Street, and the university also leased the Sawyer Building on Stuart Street, the Salada Buildings on Columbus Avenue, a part of the Boston Statler Hotel for faculty and departmental office space, and the National Guard Armory also on Arlington Street ( which was converted into the university 's library ). The university administration also had an arrangement with the Copley Square YMCA to provide students access to exercise equipment. Also in 1966, during the university 's first Spring Weekend, the American folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel was the headline act. In addition to Simon & Garfunkel, on October 21, 1974 ( and by the time the university had moved to the Harbor Campus on Columbia Point ), with the Boston busing desegregation underway, musician Stevie Wonder spoke and led students in song at a lounge in the university the day after he performed at the Boston Garden. The student newspaper, The Mass Media, published its inaugural issue on November 16, 1966, and the Founding Day Convocation for the university was held December 10, 1966, at the Prudential Center in Boston. In 1968, a group of students started the folk music radio station WUMB - FM. In the summer of 1968, inaugural Chancellor John W. Ryan resigned to return to his alma mater, Indiana University, in an administrative position, and was succeeded in October of that year by historian Francis L. Broderick ( who was serving as a dean at Lawrence University at the time ). Broderick oversaw the reorganization of the university into separate colleges ( College I and College II ), along with the establishment of the College of Public and Community Service, and presided over the university 's first graduation ceremony on June 12, 1969 ( where 500 of the original 1,240 students received diplomas ). However, in addition to the university 's budgetary problems, Broderick 's tenure was consumed by the controversies of the times. By early 1967, some younger professors were holding `` teach - ins '' and encouraging their male students to burn their draft cards in protest of `` American corporate imperialism. '' The Young Socialist Alliance and Students for a Democratic Society both had chapters on campus, and in April 1969, the latter group rallied more than a hundred students protesting the decision to move the university campus to Columbia Point. The following month, a student group called the `` Afro - American Society '', staged an occupation of summer school registration, demanding the immediate hiring of more black faculty members and the admission of more black students to the university. From March 5 to March 20 in 1970, a group of thirty students occupied the chancellor 's office after a popular `` radical '' female professor in the Sociology Department was denied tenure, and denounced the university as `` corrupt, racist, sexist and servile to an exploitative class of capitalist oppressors. '' Following President Richard Nixon 's announcement of the Vietnam War 's Cambodian Campaign on April 30, 1970, and the subsequent shooting of anti-war protestors at Kent State University on May 4, like hundreds of other universities across the United States, UMass Boston administration suspended regular business operations while the campus became consumed by protests ( mostly organized by the campus chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War ). However, no controversy was more contentious than the conflict over where UMass Boston would locate its campus permanently. The conflict emerged in 1965, not long after the university was initially founded : UMass President John W. Lederle had insisted upon a campus inside the city limits of Boston, while Boston Mayor John F. Collins publicly asked Chancellor John W. Ryan not to consider a permanent site in Downtown Boston, as a disproportionate amount of the valuable real estate there was already owned by many colleges and other non-profit institutions exempt from the city government 's property taxes. In addition to Mayor Collins, the Boston business community, the Massachusetts General Court, WBZ radio, the editorial board of The Boston Globe, and residents of the South End were also opposed to a permanent downtown campus. Nonetheless, when the university purchased the building at 100 Arlington Street in 1966, many faculty and students interpreted the transaction as a signal that the university intended to settle permanently in Park Square. A proposal popular among students and faculty to build a high - rise academic building overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Copley Square was cancelled when the John Hancock Insurance Company purchased the land and built John Hancock Tower there instead. Another proposal for a campus in the Highland Park area of Roxbury also met with opposition from residents. Other proposals to locate the permanent campus near Fenway Park, or South Station and Chinatown, or on golf courses for sale in Newton, were considered but rejected by Chancellor Ryan due to insufficient space or commuting concerns. In 1967, the Boston Redevelopment Authority ( BRA ) published a study, titled An Urban Campus by the Sea, which proposed building the campus on the Columbia Point peninsula. The site was a former landfill, adjacent to the largest and poorest public housing complex in New England, and a mile from the MBTA 's Columbia Station. Also located along Morrissey Boulevard at the time was Boston College High School ( since 1948 ), the headquarters of The Boston Globe, and the studios and offices of WTAO - TV ( a local independent television station that would later become an affiliate of The WB in 1995 and The CW in 2006 ). The proposal was deeply unpopular among the faculty and students ; 1,500 of them subsequently organized a rally in November 1967 on Boston Common demanding a downtown location in Copley Square. In April 1969, when the Students for a Democratic Society organized its opposition rally, the student leaders denounced the university as `` a ' pawn ' masking the Boston Redevelopment Authority 's plan to remove poor people from Columbia Point '' and that `` the university was planning a prestigious dormitory school with high tuition which students from low - and moderate - income families -- whom the university was designed to serve -- will not be able to attend. '' The plan was also opposed by Chancellor Ryan, who before he resigned in February 1968, made a counterproposal for a 15 - acre campus south of where John Hancock Tower was being built that the BRA rejected. Architectural consultants of the university also scouted land near North Station and adjacent to the Boston Garden that was immediately opposed both by the ownership of the Boston Garden - Arena Corporation that owned the Boston Bruins ( who threatened to move the team out of the city ) and Boston Mayor Kevin White. In August 1968, after Francis L. Broderick was appointed the university 's chancellor, now Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H. Quinn, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Kevin B. Harrington, and State Senator George Kenneally all urged the university 's Board of Trustees to accept the Columbia Point proposal, while Chancellor Broderick asked the Board to delay its decision at an October 1968 meeting by one month so that he might be able to deliver a final counterproposal ( while another rally at the Massachusetts State House of 2,500 faculty and students still demanded a Copley Square or Park Square location ). In November 1968, Chancellor Broderick proposed a `` scattered site '' campus of office buildings situated along the MBTA 's Green Line in the South End that would be jointly owned by the university and businesses while retaining the original Arlington Street building. However, while the Board of Trustees and UMass President John W. Lederle argued instead for a unified campus on Columbia Point, they allowed a task force an additional month to more fully study Broderick 's proposal. In the end, after reviewing the task force 's white paper at a meeting in December 1968, the UMass Boston Board of Trustees voted 12 to 4 to accept the Columbia Point proposal. The initial reactions of the residents of Savin Hill and Columbia Point were mixed. A coalition of 26 community organizations in Columbia Point and Dorchester formed the `` Dorchester Tenants Action Council '' ( DTAC ) to prevent an influx of students into the public housing project on Mount Vernon Street. When the Columbia Point public housing project opened in 1953, its initial demographics reflected that of the city 's population : white tenants made up more than 90 percent of the population while black families made up approximately 7 percent. However, all reports at the time indicated that racial and ethnic tensions were minimal, that there were high levels of social trust within the neighborhood, and by 1955, had a long waiting list of families wanting to become new tenants. However, as race relations in the city of Boston began to deteriorate during the 1960s, many neighborhoods became more racially segregated due to redlining, and the Boston Housing Authority ( BHA ) began to segregate the public housing developments within the city as well, moving black families into the Columbia Point housing project and whites to other projects in South Boston ( as many white families that had been on the waiting list for the complex by the early 1960s started refusing assignments to the Columbia Point project ). By the time the Harbor Campus opened in 1974, only 75 percent of the units in the Columbia Point housing project were occupied, and the BHA now thought of the complex as `` housing of last resort. '' However, as construction for the Harbor Campus began, DTAC demanded the creation of a joint task force to address their housing concerns, while some within DTAC called for the university to construct dormitories as part of the Columbia Point proposal ; legislation for doing so was proposed within the Massachusetts House of Representatives but failed to pass. In addition to DTAC, the Columbia Point Community Development Council also asked that a number of construction jobs be reserved for residents of the projects, including `` set asides '' for non-union minority workers that would later become a source of friction between the community groups and the university against the construction management firm, McKee - Berger - Mansueto ( MBM ) overseeing the project, its subcontractors, and the construction unions. In 1972, Chancellor Francis L. Broderick resigned, and was succeeded by Italian literature professor Carlo L. Golino ( who had been serving as vice president of academic affairs at the University of California, Riverside ) in 1973. During Golino 's tenure before the move to Columbia Point, the university began awarding its first master 's degrees in English and mathematics. 1974 -- 1988 : Harbor campus and Boston State College merger The Columbia Point public housing project from Carson Beach in 1977. On the beach itself, a racial conflict between residents of Columbia Point and South Boston for the use of Carson Beach and the L Street bath house. Located on the UMass Boston campus, the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex was listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Built in 1883, it is the only remaining 19th century building on Columbia Point. Opened in October 1979, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is on Columbia Point next to UMass Boston. In 1981, the Massachusetts state government announced that the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum would be built next to the JFK Presidential Library. Italian literature scholar Carlo L. Golino served as the university 's chancellor from 1973 to 1978. The JFK / UMass station in April 2016. The station received its current name on December 2, 1982 after being known as Columbia Station since November 5, 1927 when it first opened. On January 28, 1974, the university opened its new Harbor Campus on the Columbia Point peninsula surrounded by Dorchester Bay. Beginning in 1970, the construction of the Harbor Campus was the largest public capital construction project in the history of Massachusetts ( exceeded only later by the Big Dig ). The state government hired a single construction management firm, McKee - Berger - Mansueto ( MBM ), to supervise six other architectural firms and construction companies to complete the project by September 1973. The construction had multiple delays : the Boston Edison Company had not finished its electrical work, and because the site was a former landfill ( that had only been closed since 1963 ), a concrete and brick substructure ( where all of the campus mechanical systems would run conduits ) undergirded by hundreds of driven piles needed to be built before the buildings, but pile driving released methane from the former landfill, requiring construction workers to halt production while each release of methane dispersed. The Harbor Campus was originally composed of five buildings connected by a series of enclosed walkway footbridges ( commonly called `` catwalks '' ) on the second floors of the buildings : McCormack Hall, Wheatley Hall, the Science Center, the Healey Library ( which was designed by Chicago modernist architect Harry Weese ), and the Quinn Administration Building. To transport students from Columbia Station, the MBTA concluded that constructing a skyway from the station to the campus would be too expensive, and the university administration set about planning a shuttle bus system, funded by parking fees. The bottom of the substructure provided entry to a parking garage with 1,600 spaces. However, because the campus was surrounded on three sides by a bay, exposed to sea breeze and winter storms, the salt water in the atmosphere and the road salt carried from automobiles would eventually damage parts of the substructure beyond repair. Also, because the university was underneath flight paths arriving at Logan International Airport, all of the original Harbor Campus buildings were soundproofed, and because of this, the classroom and offices in the original Harbor Campus buildings were designed as interior spaces with no windows, and the entrance to every building faced inward onto the campus plaza. Due to the campus being uniformly built of brick and the campus positioned above the landscape, the campus became known as `` The Fortress '', `` The Rock '', or `` The Prison '' colloquially. The buildings were rumored to have been designed by architects familiar with the architectural design of prisons ( such as Weese, who designed the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago ), but also designed so that the plaza could easily be occupied by the National Guard to suppress demonstrations and protests. In 1974, the $350 million capital construction budget for erecting more buildings on the Harbor Campus was frozen due to the 1973 -- 75 recession, halting any further expansion of the campus. In 1975, enabled by the move to Columbia Point, Chancellor Carlo L. Golino oversaw the opening of the College of Professional Studies ( later renamed the College of Management ), and in 1976, supervised the merger of College I and College II into a single College of Arts and Sciences. Golino would resign as chancellor in 1978, was succeeded in the interim by Claire Van Ummersen ( the university 's associate vice chancellor of academic affairs ), and succeeded permanently in 1979 by Robert A. Corrigan, former arts and humanities provost at the University of Maryland. Also in 1979, construction for the Clark Athletic Center ( that included an ice hockey arena, swimming pool, and basketball courts ) was completed. In 1975, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Corporation announced its decision to locate the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on a 10 - acre site offered by the university adjacent to the Harbor Campus on Columbia Point. In October 1963, President Kennedy had personally selected a site in Harvard Square near his alma mater, but after his assassination, Cambridge residents actively opposed the Kennedy family 's efforts to build a presidential library there. Designed by architect I.M. Pei, construction for the building broke ground on June 12, 1977, and was completed and dedicated in October 1979. Two years later, the state government announced that it would construct a new building for the Massachusetts State Archives and Commonwealth Museum next to the Harbor Campus and the JFK Library, and on December 2, 1982, the MBTA renamed Columbia Station as JFK / UMass. In 1977, McKee - Berger - Mansueto, Inc. ( MBM ), the company contracted to supervise the construction of the campus, came under public scrutiny after its contract with the Commonwealth was criticized in a series of newspaper articles for being abnormally favorable towards MBM, and a special legislative committee ( led by Amherst College President John William Ward ) was formed to investigate the contract. A scandal erupted after it was learned MBM paid State Senators Joseph DiCarlo and Ronald MacKenzie $40,000 in exchange for a favorable report from the committee. DiCarlo and MacKenzie were convicted of extortion. As newspaper columnist Charles Pierce has summarized the careless and negligent quality of MBM 's construction projects unearthed by the Ward Commission 's investigation : Besides the Worcester jail with the cells that did n't lock, there was the auditorium at Boston State College in which the stage was invisible from a third of the seats and the library at Salem State College in which the walls were not sturdy enough to bear the weight of the books. At the UMass - Boston campus, ground zero of the scandal, school officials were forced to erect barricades to keep passerby from being brained by the bricks that kept falling off the side of the library. Unsurprisingly, a completely corrupt system had produced completely shoddy buildings that the taxpayers, already fleeced once, would have to pay to repair. In 1980, the Massachusetts General Court voted to establish a Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with the authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state, and in 1981, the Board of Regents decided to merge UMass Boston and Boston State College by 1984. Such a merger ( including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as well ) had been proposed in the state legislature in 1963 when UMass Boston was initially founded. Though the 1981 merger had allowed both schools a three - year grace period to ease the transition, a large cut in the state 's higher education budget forced the Board of Regents to require a `` shotgun wedding '' merger to happen by September 1981 ( although the Board of Regents did allow for it to be delayed until January of the following year ). However, Boston State College had been in existence since 1852, and in the 130 years of its existence, mostly had a reputation as a teacher 's college, situated in between the Museum of Fine Arts and the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, with two of its other largest enrollments being in nursing and police administration. These programs would transfer over to UMass Boston fully intact, and would form the basis of the College of Education, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Criminal Justice program in the Sociology Department respectively. In 1981, Boston State College enrolled roughly 6,000 students, and despite the Boston State College students having a similar demographic profile to UMass Boston students, many students expressed opposition to and disapproval of the merger. Many of Boston State College 's undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at UMass Boston were disbanded, and as fewer of the Boston State faculty had PhDs than the UMass Boston faculty did, the Board of Regents also decided to terminate the employment of 98 full - time faculty members, 275 part - time teachers, and 15 of the 35 administrators at Boston State College. In the end, however, the merger boosted enrollment at UMass Boston by 38 percent in one year ( from more than 8,000 in 60 areas of study in 1981 to more than 11,000 in 100 areas of study by 1983 ), and as Boston State College had more graduate programs than UMass Boston did at the time of the merger, most of Boston State College 's graduate programs made the transition and tripled the graduate student enrollment at UMass Boston. By 1995, graduate students accounted for 21 percent of the university 's total enrollment, and in 2011, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences was the ninth largest and was ranked as the 50th best undergraduate nursing program in the United States ( and third best in New England ) by U.S. News & World Report. In 1986, construction began for the new Harbor Point Apartments complex to replace the original Columbia Point public housing project, and was completed in 1990. By the 1980s, only 300 families were living in the housing development, in part, because the Boston Housing Authority had allowed the buildings to deteriorate and be occupied by squatters, and the public housing project had drawn comparisons to the Pruitt -- Igoe Apartments in St. Louis and the Cabrini -- Green Homes in Chicago. As a consequence, the Boston city government leased the development on a 99 - year contract to a private developer composed of a tenant - run community task force and the Corcoran - Mullins - Jennison Corporation that was supported by the university. In 1988, Chancellor Robert A. Corrigan resigned. Besides the opening of the Clark Athletic Center and the Boston State College merger, during his tenure, he oversaw the authorization of the university 's first PhD program ( in environmental science ), the university radio station WUMB - FM receive an FM broadcasting license in 1981 ( along with its first air date on September 19, 1982 ), the opening of the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and the Urban Scholars program for talented Boston Public School students in 1983, as well as the opening of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture in 1984. The women 's track and field team won the university 's first NCAA Division III championship in 1985, and a student - run café, the `` Wit 's End Café '', opened in Wheatley Hall in 1987 and would last for two decades. 1988 -- 2004 : Penney and Gora chancellorships Due to a recession in the early 1990s, Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis ( 1975 -- 1979 ; 1983 -- 1991 ) ordered the university to return appropriations multiple times to the state treasury in every fiscal year from 1989 to 1991. On October 3, 2000, the Clark Athletic Center at UMass Boston hosted the first debate between Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 U.S. presidential election. Ball State University President Jo Ann M. Gora served as UMass Boston 's chancellor from 2001 to 2004. In 1988, historian Sherry A. Penney succeeded Robert A. Corrigan as chancellor. Penney had been serving as chancellor of academic programs, policy, and planning for the State University of New York system. Her tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts. After the stock market crashed on October 19, 1987, and again on October 13, 1989, the U.S. economy went into recession from July 1990 until March 1991. The unemployment rate in Massachusetts had increased from 2.4 percent in 1988 to 9.7 percent in 1992, leading to falling state revenue. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis responded by ordering all state agencies to cut their budgets in the 1989, 1990, and 1991 fiscal years ( and sometimes multiple times during the same fiscal year ), and return appropriations to the state treasury. Chancellor Penney oversaw the university return funds to the state government 11 times during the first four years of her tenure. Dukakis would later arrange, in 1995, for part of the remaining funds from his 1988 presidential campaign be used to support a public service student internship program at UMass Boston, and beginning in 2000, has met with students in political science courses every year at the university along with former UMass System and Massachusetts Senate President William Bulger. In response to the budget cuts, Chancellor Penney began initiating major fundraising efforts ( including a five - year capital campaign target of $50 million between 1995 and 2000, and a five - year master plan in 1999 ), and despite the decline in state support, implemented multiple research programs, PhD programs, and oversaw a reorganization of the school 's colleges. In 1989, Chancellor Penney oversaw the opening of both the Urban Harbors Institute and The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, and later oversaw the separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into the College of Science and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts. In 1990, the university launched PhD programs in clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology. In 1993, the College of Public and Community Service established the Labor Resource Center and the College of Liberal Arts established the Institute for Asian American Studies, the College of Education began its partnership with The Mather School ( the oldest public elementary school in the United States ), and the Boston College Program for Women and Government moved to UMass Boston. Despite Chancellor Penney 's efforts, many programs were consolidated or closed, such as the College of Education 's undergraduate education degree. In 1994, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education classified UMass Boston as a Master 's Comprehensive University I, poet Lloyd Schwartz won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and in 1990 and 1998, art history professor Paul Hayes Tucker curated two exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston of paintings by Claude Monet. In 1997, Professor Tucker would also found the Arts on the Point sculpture park on the Harbor Campus, and the founder of the university radio station WUMB - FM also started the Boston Folk Festival. By 1998, the university had four main research areas that accounted for three - quarters of the university 's research funding : Environmental Studies, Psycho - Social Functioning of At - Risk Populations, Education, and Health and Social Welfare. In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston 's designation to a Doctoral / Research University, Intensive, and UMass Boston now offered seven doctoral programs in public policy, computer science, nursing, and education, in addition to clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology. Each year of the 1990s saw an increase in the SAT scores of undergraduate applicants, the university gained campus chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta and the Golden Key International Honour Society, the undergraduate Honors Program expanded from 65 students into the Honors College with 400 students in 2013, and the university also had enrolled its first Fulbright scholars. Between 1996 and 2000, the number of undergraduate STEM majors at the school increased by 20 percent, and in computer science alone enrollment increased by two - thirds, and biochemistry, earth and geographic sciences all by one - third. Enrollment steadily increased during Chancellor Penney 's tenure to 12,482 total students and 2,866 graduate students by 2000, and the university went from one in twelve students who were minority or female in 1988 to one in three by 2000. The percentage of faculty that was black rose from 13 percent in 1988 to 20 percent in 2000, and the percentage of faculty that was female rose from less than one - third in 1988 to 41 percent in 2000. On February 19, 1997, President Bill Clinton delivered an address on the campus ( arranged in part by U.S. Representative Joe Moakley from Massachusetts 's 9th congressional district ), and on October 3, 2000, the Clark Athletic Center hosted the first presidential debate between then Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 United States presidential election. After filing objections with the Federal Election Commission, political activist and Green Party nominee Ralph Nader attempted to enter the debate site twice but was blocked by the U.S. Secret Service both times. The cancellation of two days of classes to create security for the debate resulted in a protest by UMass Boston students, faculty, and staff members at UMass President William Bulger 's office in Downtown Boston. In 2000, Chancellor Penney resigned to accept an endowed chair within the College of Management. Except between 1995 and 1996 when the university 's vice chancellor of administration and finance Jean F. MacCormack served for an interim period, Penney had served as chancellor for nearly 12 years. She was succeeded in the interim in 2000 by David MacKenzie, and permanently in May 2001 by Jo Ann M. Gora, the provost of Old Dominion University. During Gora 's tenure, the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs became the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies in 2003, and the PhD program in green chemistry, the first in the world, was launched under the direction of chemist and UMass Boston alumnus John Warner in 2004. Gora would resign as chancellor in 2004 to become President of Ball State University, and was succeeded in the interim by J. Keith Motley, the university 's vice chancellor for student affairs. During Motley 's interim tenure, the university established a partnership with the Dana -- Farber / Harvard Cancer Center in 2005. 2004 -- 2015 : new campus Center and 25 - year Master plan J. Keith Motley was the university chancellor from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2017. Barack Obama delivering the graduation commencement address at the university on June 2, 2006 as a U.S. Senator from Illinois. As U.S. President, Obama attended the dedication of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on March 30, 2015, and out of office, on May 7, 2017, received the Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick ( 2007 -- 2015 ) during his tenure supported the university 's 25 - Year Master Plan with a Higher Education Bond Bill on August 7, 2008. Governor Patrick also spoke at the university on October 23, 2014, and met with students on May 4, 2016. On June 4, 2015, the university honored Governor Patrick at its Golden Gala. Governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker ( 2015 - Present ) also attended the dedication of the EMK Institute on March 30, 2015 and spoke at a discussion there with U.S. Senator Ed Markey and others on October 26, 2015. On April 24, 2017, Governor Baker announced that his proposal for the 2018 state budget would include $78 million towards repairs for fixing the campus parking garage. On April 2, 2004, a new Campus Center next to Wheatley Hall was opened. Construction for the facility began on July 20, 2001 and was completed during the tenure of Chancellor Jo Ann M. Gora. It became the new entrance for the campus and was the first building constructed since the Clark Athletic Center was completed in 1979. The building was designed by the Boston - based architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built by the Suffolk Construction Company at a cost of $80 million. Unlike the original Harbor Campus buildings, which were uniformly built of brick and faced inward, the Campus Center was designed such that its glass front would look out onto Boston Harbor, and the offices, food court, event space, student clubs, and activities space gave the campus a center of cohesion that was often lacking in the older buildings. In 2005, Chancellor Gora was permanently succeeded by Michael F. Collins, the President and CEO of Caritas Christi Health Care. On July 19, 2006, Chancellor Collins ordered the immediate and permanent closure of the parking garage underneath the main campus, causing a loss of 1,500 parking spaces. Two days later, an article in The Boston Globe summarized the deterioration of the facility : The University of Massachusetts at Boston has closed an underground parking garage that has been decaying for decades... Over the years, the garage has become a dreary labyrinth, with walls and floor so eroded from the salty environment that they look like a coral reef. Nets hang from the ceiling to catch fragments of falling cement, a problem linked to the use of low - quality concrete in the construction. Chunks of concrete had been falling from the garage ceiling since the 1990s, and when Chancellor Collins ordered the closure, 600 spaces had already been lost due to ongoing repairs and rerouting of passenger and vehicular traffic. Because of the salt water atmosphere and the road salt from vehicles, the steel reinforcing bars embedded in the campus substructure concrete walls and ceiling became severely degraded, and because all of the campus mechanical systems had run conduits through the substructure, many of those systems could not be repaired and the damage was causing outages of the computer, electrical, heat, and air - conditioning equipment. An engineering report indicated that to repair the garage such that it would be safe for parking would cost $150 million, and so the university elected not to do that. On October 2, 2006, the university began the process of creating a master plan to renew the campus. On June 2, 2006, U.S. Senator Barack Obama from Illinois addressed his commencement speech at UMass Boston to the graduating students. Among other topics, he discussed his keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. In early 2007, Chancellor Collins resigned to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and he was succeeded on July 1, 2007 by former interim chancellor J. Keith Motley, who became the university 's first African American chancellor. By December 14, 2007, Chancellor Motley presented a 25 - Year Master Plan to the UMass Board of Trustees, who accepted the plan in full. Included in the 25 - Year Master Plan was the proposal to erect the university 's first residential facilities that would accommodate 2,000 students, but not with the intention of changing the character of the university from a commuter school to a residential school. Eight months later on August 7, 2008, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a higher education bond bill with $100 million directed towards the construction of a new integrated sciences complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the university 's campus, a second $100 million directed towards constructing a general academic building, and the following week, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts announced that he would accelerate his plans to construct the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Columbia Point next to his brother 's presidential library. In 2009, the nearby Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure to a Florida - based real estate firm, LNR / CMAT, and on May 19, 2010, the university purchased the property to use as campus facilities and to recoup 1,300 parking spaces. By 2013, with the construction of the EMK Institute underway on April 8, 2011, the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex underway on June 8, 2011, renovations to the Clark Athletic Center 's gymnasium from March to December 2012, construction for a second academic building ( General Academic Building No. 1 ) underway on February 27, 2013, and a utility corridor and roadway network project begun in the spring of 2013, the university 's campus became `` a multi-site construction zone. '' In 2006, a report commissioned by the university on its areas of research strength and areas with opportunities for research, titled `` Research Re-envisioned for the 21st Century : A Strategic Opportunity Assessment '', was released. In 2007, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences began the GoKids Boston program to counter childhood obesity, and in 2008, the Graduate College of Education renamed itself the College of Education and Human Development. In 2010, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston 's designation a second time, now to a Doctoral / Research University with High Activity. On September 26, 2011, a Strategic Planning Task Force chaired by university provost Winston E. Langley and convened by Chancellor Motley issued its final report `` Fulfilling the Promise : A Blueprint for UMass Boston ''. In 2012, biology professor Kamaljit Bawa won the Gunnerus Sustainability Award. In 2013, the university established its School for Global Inclusion and Social Development ( the first of its kind in the world ), its University Honors Program as a separate Honors College, and its School for the Environment and launched an interdisciplinary Nantucket Semester Program ( on land donated to the UMass Board of Trustees in 1963 by a Nantucket summer resident that became the university 's Nantucket Field Station in the 1970s ). In 2014, research activity at the university had climbed to $60 million, and the university began work on its HarborWalk Improvements and Shoreline Stabilization project. By the fall semester of 2014, total student enrollment had grown to 16,756 with 4,056 graduate students. The number of doctoral students had increased from 230 in the fall of 2000 to 614 in the fall of 2014. On October 23, 2014, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick spoke at the university in celebration of the new Integrated Sciences Complex that would be completed the following January. 2015 -- Present : new buildings In 2014, UMass Boston celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and in 2015, the University of Massachusetts Press published the school 's first history about its founding and growth, entitled UMass Boston at 50. In 2015, the College of Management enrolled close to one - sixth of all students and more than half of the undergraduate students earning degrees in a STEM field were minority or female. By 2015, UMass Boston students came from 140 different nations and spoke 90 different languages. By 2025, UMass Boston is likely to become one of the first universities in the United States, other than historically black colleges to have a student body that will be `` majority - minority. '' On January 26, 2015, the university opened its first new academic building since the original campus was built, a research facility named the Integrated Sciences Complex. On March 30, 2015, the dedication ceremony for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate was held with President and First Lady of the United States Barack and Michelle Obama, Senator Kennedy 's wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona, former U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle from North Dakota and Trent Lott from Mississippi, U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey from Massachusetts, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, former U.S. Representative Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island, Connecticut State Senator Edward M. Kennedy Jr., Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, EMK Institute President and former interim chancellor of UMass Boston Jean F. MacCormack, and many others in attendance. On the following day, the institute opened to the public. On April 2, 2015, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings from Maryland 's 7th congressional district co-hosted a forum on college affordability in the university 's Campus Center ballroom. Senator Warren returned to the university campus on September 27, 2015 to deliver a lecture at the EMK Institute ( as part of the institute 's `` Getting To The Point '' and `` Across the Aisle '' series of programs that also featured U.S. Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, and novelist Junot Díaz ) and on November 17, 2016 at the New England Women 's Policy Conference also in the university 's Campus Center ballroom. On April 15, 2015, linguist and public intellectual Noam Chomsky spoke at the university. On June 4, 2015, the university honored Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick at the university 's Golden Gala at the Boston Seaport World Trade Center. Governor Patrick would return to the campus out of office on May 4, 2016 to meet with students from the new School for Global Inclusion and Social Development in the Integrated Sciences Complex. On January 25, 2016, a second new academic building opened, University Hall, and the following month on February 5, the university announced that it would construct the first residential facilities in the university 's history. On April 20, 2016, the university announced that U.S. Representative Seth Moulton from Massachusetts 's 6th congressional district would give the commencement address at the 2016 graduation ceremony, which he did on May 27, 2016. On September 13, 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the first time in the university 's history, tied at number 220, and the following year, U.S. News & World Report elevated the university 's ranking to a tie at number 202. On October 19, 2016, Vice President Biden returned to the university to speak at the EMK Institute. On May 7, 2017, President Obama returned to the university to receive the Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. On March 3, 2017, former Bowdoin College president Barry Mills was appointed the university 's deputy chancellor and chief operating officer. In this role, he oversaw the academic and research program and campus operations. On April 5, 2017, university officials announced that Chancellor J. Keith Motley would resign at the end of the academic calendar year on June 30, take a one - year sabbatical, and return as a tenured faculty member. Mills became interim chancellor on July 1 after Motley 's resignation. According to University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan, Mills will serve as interim chancellor `` until ( university ) finances are stabilized and the university is positioned to attract a world - class chancellor through a global search. '' On April 24, 2017, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that the state government capital budget for fiscal year 2018 would include $78 million towards repairs for fixing the campus parking garage. According to UMass President Marty Meehan, Baker 's commitment of funds were `` the most significant investment made by any administration in the 40 years since construction flaws in the substructure became known. '' Timeline ( from UMass Boston website, note that this also contains the history of Boston State College ) 1851 -- Superintendent Nathan Bishop proposes a normal school to train teachers for the elementary grades. 1852 -- Girls ' High School conducts its first classes in the Adams School building on Mason St. 1854 -- Girls ' High is renamed Girls ' High and Normal School. 1863 -- Massachusetts Agricultural College ( M.A.C ) is founded in Amherst. 1870 -- The school moves to new quarters on West Newton St. 1872 -- Boston Normal School becomes a separate institution. 1876 -- Boston Normal moves to the Rice School building on Dartmouth St. 1907 -- Boston Normal moves to a specially built facility on Huntington Ave. 1922 -- Boston Normal becomes the Teachers College of the City of Boston. 1931 - `` M.A.C. '' became Massachusetts State College. 1947 - `` M.A.C. '' became University of Massachusetts. 1952 -- Teachers College becomes the State Teachers College at Boston. 1960 -- Renamed State College at Boston at 100 Arlington St. in Park Square. 1964 -- The University of Massachusetts Boston is established. 1968 -- State College at Boston renamed Boston State College. 1974 -- First classes at UMass Boston 's Harbor Campus. 1982 -- Boston State College merges with UMass Boston. 2004 -- New UMass Boston Campus Center opens. 2015 -- New Integrated Sciences Complex opens. 2016 -- New University Hall Building opens. Campus The UMass Boston campus from Squantum Point Park in Quincy, June 2008. The brick building in the foreground is Wheatley Hall and the white building to its right is the Campus Center. The UMass Boston campus in April 2009 from the Morrissey Boulevard entrance. From left to right, the buildings are the Quinn Administration Building, the Healey Library, and McCormack Hall. The JFK Presidential Library from the Columbia Point segment of the Boston HarborWalk on the UMass Boston campus. UMass Boston is located off Interstate 93 and within one mile of the JFK / UMass MBTA Station on the Red Line and the Old Colony Lines of the Commuter Rail. Major buildings include : Campus Center University Hall Wheatley Hall Science Center McCormack Hall Healey Library Quinn Administration Building Service and Supplies Building Integrated Sciences Complex Clark Athletic Center and Monan Park Off - site locations UMass Boston 's Institute for New England Native American Studies and Institute for Community Inclusion ( UMass Boston 's joint program with Boston Children 's Hospital that is part of the national Association of University Centers on Disabilities ) have their main offices on the fourth floor of the Bayside Office Center at 150 Mount Vernon Street, which is adjacent to the former Bayside Expo Center and down the street from the main campus. UMass Boston 's Early Learning Center that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children is located at 2 Harbor Point Boulevard in the Harbor Point Apartments complex adjacent to the campus. UMass Boston 's Biology Department and School for the Environment also have a field station on Nantucket. Future campus Development On December 7, 2009, a 25 - Year Master Plan was published, outlining future campus development and construction projects, which included the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex and University Hall, as well as the improvements to the Boston HarborWalk. Future projects include : A $45 million plan currently being led by CannonDesign, funded by the UMass Building Authority, and managed by Hill International to renovate Wheatley and McCormack Halls and demolish the original Science Center, A $164 million project to develop a new utility corridor and roadway network being led by BVH Integrated Services, Inc. and built by Bond Brothers, which began in the spring of 2013, A $120 million project being led by Capstone Development Partners, built by Shawmut Construction, and designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects to construct the first residential facilities in the university 's history, with two wings located along University Drive North and West and one set back from Mount Vernon Street, which was approved in early 2016, broke ground on December 1, 2016, completed steel construction on August 3, 2017, and is expected to open in the fall of 2018, A $71 million project being funded by the UMass Building Authority, managed by Skanska, built by Suffolk Construction, and designed by Fennick McCredie Architecture to construct the university 's first free - standing parking garage located in between Monan Park and University Drive West, which broke ground on January 26, 2017, and whose construction expected to continue through the spring of 2018, A second general - purpose academic building ( General Academic Building No. 2 ), which received $100 million in state funding in 2012 and that is to built next to Wheatley Hall in between University Drives South and East and the Campus Center bus stop, A phased demolition of the former Bayside Expo Center building in order to expand the parking area, build new pedestrian walkways connecting Mount Vernon Street with the Dorchester Shores Reservation and the HarborWalk, and improve the lighting, landscaping, bike racks, and security devices. Academics Distribution of UMass Boston undergraduate student body by college ( 2015 -- 2016 ) College Undergraduate Major Bachelor 's Degrees Conferred Liberal Arts 5,102 ( 40.55 % ) 1,129 ( 42.35 % ) Science & Mathematics 3,288 ( 26.13 % ) 377 ( 14.14 % ) Management 2,147 ( 17.06 % ) 531 ( 19.92 % ) Nursing & Health Sciences 1,698 ( 13.50 % ) 521 ( 19.54 % ) Education & Human Development 256 ( 2.19 % ) 59 ( 2.21 % ) Public & Community Service 46 ( 0.37 % ) 45 ( 1.69 % ) Advancing & Professional Studies 45 ( 0.36 % ) 4 ( 0.15 % ) University Totals 12,582 ( 100.00 % ) 2,666 ( 100.00 % ) The university confers bachelor 's, master 's, and doctoral degrees, and also operates certificate programs and a corporate, continuing, and distance learning program. There are eleven schools and colleges at UMass Boston : the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, School for the Environment, College of Management, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, College of Public and Community Service, College of Education and Human Development, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, Honors College, and College of Advancing and Professional Studies ( CAPS ). The university is a member of the Urban 13 universities, alongside schools like Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh. University rankings National Forbes 551 U.S. News & World Report 202 Washington Monthly 210 Global QS 601 - 650 U.S. News & World Report 529 According to the UMass Boston Office of Institutional Research and Policy Studies, in the 2015 -- 2016 academic year, the five most popular majors at the university were Management, Biology, Psychology, Exercise and Health Sciences, and Nursing. Within the College of Liberal Arts, the five most popular majors were Psychology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Communication Studies, and English. Within the College of Science and Mathematics, the five most popular majors were Biology, Computer Science, Information Technology, Biochemistry, and Environmental Sciences. Within the College of Management, the five most popular concentrations were No Concentration, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Leadership and Organizational Change. The five most popular minors at the university were Psychology, Sociology, Biology, Criminal Justice, and Economics. Accreditation UMass Boston is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Additionally, the College of Management is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ( AACSB ), and the College of Nursing and Health Services hold accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing. The Family Therapy Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Marital and Family Therapy Education ( COAMFTE ). UMass Boston is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools and the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools. UMass Boston is part of the Greater Boston Urban Education Collaborative. Faculty UMass Boston faculty by tenure status and college ( 2015 -- 2016 ) College Total Part - Time Non-Tenure Track Tenured / Tenure - Track Liberal Arts 489 ( 39.34 % ) 174 ( 35.58 % ) 102 ( 20.86 % ) 213 ( 43.56 % ) Science & Mathematics 172 ( 13.84 % ) 46 ( 26.74 % ) 36 ( 20.93 % ) 90 ( 52.33 % ) Nursing & Health Sciences 142 ( 11.42 % ) 92 ( 64.79 % ) 23 ( 16.20 % ) 27 ( 19.01 % ) Education & Human Development 123 ( 9.90 % ) 68 ( 55.28 % ) 9 ( 7.32 % ) 46 ( 37.40 % ) Management 119 ( 9.57 % ) 37 ( 31.09 % ) 21 ( 17.65 % ) 61 ( 51.26 % ) McCormack Graduate School 56 ( 4.51 % ) 21 ( 37.50 % ) 6 ( 10.71 % ) 29 ( 51.79 % ) Advancing & Professional Studies 51 ( 4.10 % ) 45 ( 88.24 % ) 6 ( 11.76 % ) 0 ( 0.00 % ) Global Inclusion & Social Development 28 ( 2.25 % ) 19 ( 67.86 % ) 0 ( 0.00 % ) 9 ( 32.14 % ) School for the Environment 23 ( 1.85 % ) 6 ( 26.09 % ) 3 ( 13.04 % ) 14 ( 60.87 % ) Public & Community Service 16 ( 1.29 % ) 4 ( 25.00 % ) 0 ( 0.00 % ) 12 ( 75.00 % ) University Totals 1,243 ( 100.00 % ) 527 ( 42.39 % ) 210 ( 16.89 % ) 506 ( 40.71 % ) UMass Boston 's faculty of 1,243 consists of 182 tenure - track and 210 non-tenure - track professors. 96 percent of the faculty hold the highest degree in their fields and the student - teacher ratio is 16 : 1. It includes poets Lloyd Schwartz ( who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994 and co-edited the Library of America 's Elizabeth Bishop : Poems, Prose, and Letters in 2008 ), Patrick Barron, and Jill McDonough, translator and Slavic philologist Diana Lewis Burgin, linguist Donaldo Macedo, author Padraig O'Malley, feminist scholar Carol Cohn, economists Julie A. Nelson and Randy Albelda, philosopher Lynne Tirrell, political scientists Leila Farsakh and Thomas Ferguson, psychologist Sharon Lamb, computer scientist Patrick O'Neil, Monet expert Paul Hayes Tucker, and physicist Benjamin Mollow, discoverer of the Mollow triplet. Former faculty members include biblical scholar Richard A. Horsley, chemist John Warner, feminist writers Beverly Smith and Christina Hoff Sommers, historians Edward Berkowitz, James Green, Peter Linebaugh, William Andrew Moffett, Mark Peattie, and James Turner, literary scholar Carlo L. Golino ( who served as the university 's chancellor from 1973 to 1978 ), mathematicians Amir Aczel, Victor S. Miller, and Robert Thomas Seeley, neurologist M.V. Padma Srivastava, novelists Jaime Clarke, Elizabeth Searle, and Melanie Rae Thon, philosopher Jane Roland Martin, poets Martha Collins and Sabra Loomis, political scientists Jalal Alamgir and Kent John Chabotar, clinical psychologist David Lisak, social psychologist Melanie Joy, and sociologists Benjamin Bolger and Robert Dentler. Institutes and centers The following free - standing institutes and centers are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Center for Social Development and Education Center for Survey Research Institute for Asian American Studies Institute for Community Inclusion Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy Urban Harbors Institute Venture Development Center William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture The following university - wide institutes and centers are operationally managed by collective leadership teams appointed by the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Center of Science and Mathematics in Context Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy ( a collaborative venture with the Dana -- Farber / Harvard Cancer Center ) Confucius Institute Developmental Sciences Research Center Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation Institute for International and Comparative Education Sustainable Solutions Lab The following institutes and centers are administered by their college or department. Adult Literacy Resource Institute Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks Center for Collaborative Leadership Center for Environmental Health, Science, and Technology Center for Governance and Sustainability Center for Green Chemistry Center for Innovation and Excellence in eLearning Center for Innovative Teaching Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development Center for Portuguese Language -- Instituto Camoes Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging Center for Social Policy Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness Center for the Study of Gender, Security, and Human Rights Center for the Study of the Humanities, Culture and Society Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy Center for World Languages and Cultures Center on Media and Society China Program Center Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management Entrepreneurship Center Gerontology Institute GoKids Boston Youth Fitness and Training Center Institute for Learning and Teaching Institute for New England Native American Studies Labor Resource Center New England Resource Center for Higher Education Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Pension Action Center The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center & Minority Business Center Athletics Intercollegiate athletics, intramurals, and recreation for the students, staff, and faculty are the primary programs of the UMass Boston Department of Athletics. The department offers 18 varsity sports and is a member of the NCAA 's Division III. UMass Boston, known by their nickname : the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and ECAC East Ice Hockey. The Beacons have been named All - Americans 93 times in seven sports. The women 's indoor and outdoor track & field teams have won four NCAA team championships and 38 NCAA individual championships. In the years 1999 through 2006 the National Consortium for Academics and Sports named the Department of Athletics at UMass Boston first in the country for community service. Student activities UMass Boston 's independent, student run and financed newspaper is The Mass Media. Other student publications include the yearbook, Watermark arts and literary magazine, and The Beacon monthly humor magazine. UMass Boston also owns and operates WUMB - FM ( 91.9 ), a 24 - hour, public, noncommercial radio station that broadcasts folk music programs and produces the award - winning public and cultural affairs program, Commonwealth Journal. UMass Boston 's undergraduates are represented by the Undergraduate Student Government, which consists of the Undergraduate Student Senate, the executive office of the USG President, and the office of the USG Chief Justice. UMass Boston 's graduate students are represented by the Graduate Student Assembly. UMass Boston 's graduate student employees ( teaching assistants, research assistants, and administrative assistants ) are represented by the Graduate Employee Organization / UAW Local 1596 -- UMass Boston Chapter. The university also has a large waterfront recreation program. The Division of Marine Operations operates the Universities waterfront which supports recreational and Environmental education programs. Full - Time Umass Boston students are offered free sailing lessons and boat rentals, paddleboards, kayaks and harbor cruises. Marine Operations recently developed the U-Sea Fund Grant for UMass Boston Faculty who are interested in developing a classroom component around our ocean environment. Starting Summer 2011 Marine Operations will work in conjunction with B&G, Boating in Boston, to offer a sailing camp for youth up to age 18. Boating in Boston has operated for years in other locations and have shown considerable interest in UMass Boston 's grand waterfront. National student societies or professional organizations with active local or student chapters at UMass Boston include Alpha Lambda Delta, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College Democrats of America, Delta Sigma Pi, Free the Children, the Golden Key International Honour Society, the National Student Nurses ' Association, Phi Delta Epsilon, the Public Interest Research Group, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, the Society of Physics Students, and Young Americans for Liberty. The American Chemical Society had a student chapter at UMass Boston, but as of the Fall 2016 semester it is inactive. Notable alumni See also : Category : University of Massachusetts Boston alumni Joseph Abboud, B.A. 1972, International Men 's Fashion Designer. Amsale Aberra, B.A. 1981, Celebrity Wedding designer. Paul Anastas, B.S. 1984, Regarded as the `` Father of Green Chemistry '' ; EPA official. Cory Atkins, ( B.S. 1979 ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1999 - Present ). Panayiota Bertzikis, B.A. 2010, Humanitarian. Daniel E. Bosley, ( M.S. 1996 ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1987 -- 2011 ). Alton J. Brann, B.A. 1969, former President and CEO of Litton Industries. William Bratton, B.A. 1975, former Police Commissioner of the Boston, New York City, and Los Angeles Police Departments. Phillip Brutus, B.S. 1982, Member of the Florida House of Representatives ( 2001 -- 2007 ). Christine Canavan, ( B.S. Nursing ( summa cum laude ) 1988 ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1993 -- 2015 ). Ken Casey, bassist for the punk rock group the Dropkick Murphys. Lenny Clarke, ( did not finish ), comedian / actor. Tim Costello ( 1945 -- 2009 ), labor and anti-globalization advocate and author. Paul Donato, Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts ( 1980 -- 1985 ), Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 2001 - Present ), Second Assistant Majority Whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 2009 - Present ). Paul M. English, B.A. 1987 and M.S. 1989 ( both in Computer Science ), Co-Founder and CTO of Kayak.com. Paul Evans, B.A. 1974 ( Boston State College ), former Police Chief of the Boston Police Department 1994 -- 2003. Jennifer L. Flanagan, ( B.S. Political Science, 1998 ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 2005 -- 2009 ), Member of the Massachusetts Senate ( 2009 - 2017 ). Jovita Fontanez 1984, head of Boston Election Commission, member of Massachusetts Electoral College. Robert L. Hedlund, Member of the Massachusetts Senate ( 1991 -- 1993 ; 1995 -- 2016 ), Mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts ( 2016 - Present ). Patricia D. Jehlen, ( M.A. History ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1991 -- 2005 ), Member of the Massachusetts Senate ( 2005 - Present ). John F. Kelly, B.A. 1976, General in the United States Marine Corps, Commander of U.S. Southern Command ( USSOUTHCOM ) from ( 2012 -- 2016 ). Former Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Former Commander of Multi-National Force - West, Iraq, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security ( January - July 2017 ), White House Chief of Staff ( July 2017 - Present ). Sally Kelly, B.A. 1973, Boston Municipal Court Judge, Boston. Joseph P. Kennedy II, ( B.A. 1976 ), current President of Citizens Energy Corporation and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives ( 1987 -- 1999 ). Bruce Lehane, current Cross Country and Distance Track coach at Boston University. ( Attended the Boston State College ). Dennis Lehane, ( did not finish ), Author. Ronald Mariano, ( M. Ed., 1972 ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1992 - Present ), Majority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 2011 - Present ). Gina McCarthy, ( B.A., 1976 ), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( 2013 -- 2017 ). Michael J. McGlynn, ( B.A. Political Science / History, 1976 ). Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1977 -- 1988 ), Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts ( 1988 -- 2016 ). Thomas Menino, ( B.A. Community Planning, 1988 ). Mayor of Boston, 1993 -- 2014. Janet T. Mills B.A. 1970, Maine Attorney General ( 2009 -- 2011 ; 2013 - Present ). Michael J. Moran, ( B.A. Economics, 1995 ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 2005 - Present ). Eileen Myles, B.A. Author. Kelly Overton, animal rights activist. Joe Rogan, ( did not finish ), comedian, actor, `` News Radio '' and `` Fear Factor ''. David Ryan, B.A. 1989, Writer. Jeffrey Sánchez, ( B.A. Legal Education ), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 2003 - Present ). Debra Saunders, B.A. 1982, conservative columnist, Las Vegas Review - Journal. Biz Stone, ( did not finish ) Co-Founder of Twitter. Steve Sweeney, B.A. 1974, Comedian. John M. Tobin, Jr., ( B.A. Political Science ), Boston City Councillor ( 2002 -- 2010 ). Harry Trask, B.A. 1969, ( 1928 -- 2002 ) 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Phototography ( for a photograph of the SS Andrea Doria sinking ). Robert Travaglini, B.S. 1974. President of the Massachusetts Senate ( 2003 -- 2007 ), Massachusetts State Senator ( 1992 -- 2007 ), Boston City Councilor ( 1984 -- 1992 ). Bill Walczak, B.A. 1978. former CEO Codman Square Health Center and candidate for Mayor of Boston. John Warner, B.S. 1984, one of the founding fathers of Green Chemistry ; founded first PhD program in Green Chemistry. Dana White, ( did not finish ), current president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ). Notes Jump up ^ There are three other public educational institutions in Boston : Roxbury Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. There are also many private colleges and universities in and around the city. Jump up ^ Such activism led Chancellor Broderick to approve the formation of a task force led by sociology professor James Blackwell -- the university 's only tenured African American faculty member -- and English professor Mary Anne Ferguson that recommended the hiring of a university affirmative action officer to ensure the equal consideration of minority and woman faculty candidates, and by the mid-1970s, for the UMass Boston Sociology Department to have one - third of its members be black and 40 percent be women -- higher ratios than were typical of a university that was neither historically black nor a women 's college. Blackwell and Ferguson would go on to play leading roles in establishing the Black and Women 's Studies Departments as well. Jump up ^ These figures include the students majoring in and received bachelor 's degrees in Environmental Sciences, which is also part of the School for the Environment. Jump up ^ These figures include the students majoring in and received bachelor 's degrees in Community Development, which is also part of the School for the Environment. Jump up ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of the total number of faculty members in a college relative to the number of faculty members in the university as a whole. Jump up ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of part - time faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college. Jump up ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of non-tenure track faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college. Jump up ^ The percentages in this column are the ratios of tenured or tenure - track faculty members in the college relative to the total faculty members of the individual college. Jump up ^ The percentages in this row are the ratios of the total numbers of faculty members in each column 's category relative to the number of faculty members in the university as a whole. Jump up ^ However, the American Chemical Society still certifies the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree at UMass Boston. References Footnotes Jump up ^ `` 2015 REPORT ON ANNUAL INDICATORS University Performance Measurement System July 2015 '' ( PDF ). University of Massachusetts. 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