Howard M. Ziff - Ziff will be named an honorary alumnus of the University. A native of Holyoke, he was educated at Amherst College and Columbia University. He was a reporter and Korea bureau chief for Pacific Stars and Stripes, and worked as a reporter, editor, and editorial writer for the Chicago Daily News. Ziff taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and headed the Program for Minority Journalists at Columbia University before joining the UMass faculty in 1971. He served as department chair for more than 10 of his 27 years at the University.
Attendance is by invitation, but reporters are welcome.