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2000
Campus Chronicle
Daniel Fitzgibbons, Editor
205 Munson Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003
Senate Panel's Plan Proposes
$25.5 Million Hike
The University stands to gain $25.5 million in new funding under a Fiscal
Year 2001 budget plan unveiled Wednesday by the Senate Ways and Means
Committee.
Facilities
and Services Post Filled in A&F
Theodore J. Weidner, director of facilities planning and management at
Eastern Illinois University, has been named associate vice chancellor
for Facilities and Campus Services, according to Paul Page, vice chancellor
for Administration and Finance.
Commencement
Activities Fill
Weekend Schedule
Beginning Saturday morning and continuing through early afternoon on Sunday,
approximately 5,400 undergraduate, graduate and Stockbridge School of
Agriculture students will be awarded degrees in three separate Commencement
ceremonies.
Twenty
Faculty Resign or Retire
During the Year
Some familiar faces will be absent from the faculty next fall. Nine tenured
or tenure-track faculty are resigning or retiring effective over the summer,
and 11 more left earlier in the year.
Journalism
Major to Give Student Address
Litza J. Meléndez, a Journalism major who has advised and assisted new
students on campus for three years, will be the student speaker at this
week-end's Undergraduate Commencement.
Life
Sciences Labs Open Doors to Undergraduate Researchers
This summer close to 60 undergraduates will be working full time in life
sciences labs on campus under the auspices of several programs that support
undergraduate research.
Junior
Writing Seminar Explores Commemoration of Campus History
Students in the History Department's junior writing seminar recently
wrapped up their semester-long efforts in a course entitled, "The Power
of Place: The Politics of Memory on the UMass Campus."
Campus
Appreciation Day is June 1
All University employees and their immediate families are invited to attend
Campus Appreciation Day on Thursday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. on the Metawampe
Lawn area near the Student Union and Lincoln Campus Center.
New
WORLD Theater Given $100K Grant
New WORLD Theater (NWT) has been awarded a $100,000 National Theatre Artist
Residency Program grant to support an artistic partnership with the founders
of the groundbreaking performance ensemble Universes.
Displaced Art students seek space resolution
Provost Cora Marrett responds
Report on ozone study misleading
Vice president rebuts senate report's comments on marine school
Joseph Larson, interim secretary of the Faculty Senate, replies
ONLINE EDITION
Vol. 15, Issue 33
May 19, 2000
