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2000
Campus Chronicle
Daniel Fitzgibbons, Editor
205 Munson Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003
Frustrated By Lack of Pay Hikes, Police
Pass up Promotional Test
UMass Police officers this week boycotted a promotional exam to protest
legislative inaction on a bill to fund pay raises included in a three-year
contract that has already expired.
Slakey
Named Interim Dean of Commonwealth College
Linda Slakey, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
has been appointed to a three-year term as interim dean of Commonwealth
College, effective Sept. 1.
Distance
Learning Proposal Generates Interest, Concerns
Faculty and administrators are sorting through recommendations in a recent
report on the possible future of distance learning in the University system
commissioned by the Board of Trustees.
Clark
Preps for 275-Mile Charity Bike Ride
It's the opposite of a free ride, but that only encourages Alex Clark's
enthusiasm. A farm worker II at the Horticultural Research Center in Belchertown,
Clark hopes to raise more than the minimum $1,700 to be eligible to pedal
his bicycle from Boston to New York, Sept. 15-17, as part of AIDSRide
6.
Campus
Publications Win Gold,
Bronze Awards
Two viewbooks produced by the Publications Office won awards during the
Advertising Club of Western Massachusetts' annual Creative Merit Awards
ceremony on June 28.
Northampton
OKs Memorial Plaque
for Jean Hosmer
The Northampton Department of Public Works has approved plans to place
a bronze plaque at the site where UMass Extension employee Jean Hosmer
was fatally shot by her estranged husband. The memorial received the go-ahead
on June 28.
Suggested reading on distance learning
Bottom line driving distance learning plans
ONLINE EDITION
Vol. 15, Issue 38
July 14, 2000
