An Academic Guide for New Students
Message from the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dear New Student,
On behalf of the faculty, I am delighted to welcome you to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As you embark on your experience here, you are joining an outstanding group of scholars and learners. Our faculty members serve as exemplars of our focus on teaching, research, and outreach whose encouragement of our students leads to discovery and creativity. As a result, our students make wide-ranging contributions to the intellectual life of the university.
I am pleased to invite you to become engaged in our innovative and diverse community of scholars. We are continually enriched by the work of our faculty and students as we demonstrate our common goals of excellent teaching, the discovery of new knowledge, the cultivation of research, the development of leaders, and vital outreach to the community and beyond. Your educational experience will be enhanced as you become involved in these activities.
As stewards of the academic mission of the campus, we are rewarded by the contributions of our students and future alumni to the Commonwealth and beyond. Again, I send you my warmest wishes as you join our community and begin to realize your dreams.
Sincerely,
Charlena Seymour
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
