Jennifer Hills’s
first taste of business was sweet: She sold Girl Scout
cookies. “I was
a top salesperson,” she says, intent on earning a “cookies
and dough” patch for
selling more than 500 boxes. “I would encourage people
to buy extras, because they
freeze so well,” she says of her strategy. [more]
Private giving
has become a fact of life in the success of statesupported
institutions like UMass Amherst, which operates
in an increasingly competitive academic marketplace. At
the Isenberg School, private support has been decisive
in
ensuring both the excellence and competitiveness of our
programs. [more]
Like all major public
research
universities, UMass Amherst constructs
its annual budget from a variety of
sources. The total campus revenue for
2005 is just under $650 million. [more]
Raising furry Seuss-like creatures
was not what
Jennifer Lutz had in mind when she left for
college, waving goodbye to the cattle, chickens, and
pigs on her family’s Vermont farm. Well aware of
how
demanding farming is, Jennifer was set on a career in civil
engineering. Then she took a senior study trip to Ecuador
and fell in love with llamas. [more]
Breeding
Success