Criteria for Admission

We are interested in admitting students who are confident they want to pursue positions in higher-education, leading service-learning and engagement. Successful applicants will have been strong students as undergraduates, and have demonstrated through undergraduate activities or professional experience (e.g. VISTA, AmeriCorps) that they have the potential to be leaders of engaged campuses.

Admissions Process

• Please state clearly in your graduate student application essay and a cover letter
  that you wish to be considered for the Masters Track in Service-Learning and Community
  Engagement within the Higher Education program.
• Be sure to list relevant service-learning and engagement or community-based experience in your resume and to ask one of your faculty or administrators writing a letter of recommendation to speak to your experience in this area.
• Applicants for the program may be interviewed by phone in February and March and invited to an orientation if accepted, wherein they will interview for assistantships (if not
  otherwise employed).
• Faculty will make students aware of assistantship opportunities in service-learning. Students who obtain assistantships receive a stipend, tuition waver, and health benefits.

Graduate School Admissions Information

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Joseph B. Berger
Associate Professor of Higher Education and Department Chair
Department of Educational Policy, Research, and Administration
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003 - 9308
tel: 413.545.3610
fax: 413.545.1523
email: jbberger@educ.umass.edu