Below are selected UMass acheivements from 6 years of Strategic Action. [download PDF - 5.5 MB]

Published Strategic Action FY96-01 Towards a Commonwealth of Learning – A comprehensive strategic plan providing a philosophical and fiscal framework for the future

Opened the Silvio O. ConteNational Center for Polymer Research

Launched Campaign UMass – Engaging Advocates, Strengthening Image and Raising $125M

Dedicated the W.E.B. Du Bois Library – the first campus building named for a person of color

Established Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval developed InQuery, the Library of Congress’s search engine

The men’s basketball team made its first-ever visit to the NCAA Final Four

Inaugural year for Mass Ventures Corp., UMass’s economic development partnership with the business community and the state

Eugene ’50 and Ronnie Isenberg donated $6 million to the School of Management. The largest gift in UMass history

Chemistry Dept. and Computer-Based Instructional Technology (CCBIT), collaborate to create OWL, a comprehensive, Web-based, homework system

UMass was ranked 18th in “knowledge creation” in a study on academic productivity at the nation’s 200 leading research institutions

A 1997 USA Today survey of 225 Division I schools cited UMass as one of the nation's top 16 schools in Title IX compliance

UMass and the Mexican Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica collaborate to build the world's largest millimeter-wavelength radio telescope. It is the most sensitive, most powerful instrument of its kind ever built

Crossworlds: A Conversation – Persuasive Voices of Constructive Change – Coretta Scott King and Patricia Schroeder; (1995 – Maya Angelou and Elie Wiesel)

UMass strengthens its image with an award-winning logo and a comprehensive Communications and Marketing plan

Pharming Country – From labs within the Dept. of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, a biotechnology initiative resulted in the birth of Albert, George, and Charlie, the world’s first cloned, transgenic calves

The Power and Class of New England – The Minuteman Marching Band receives the 1998 Louis C. Sudler Trophy, the most prestigious national band award

UMass 55, Georgia Southern 43 – Football Team wins the Division 1-AA National Championship

Money Magazine rates UMass a “best buy”; ranked 4th in public schools for in-state students

Inaugural year of the University Scholars Program, provides up to $8,000 per year to the valedictorian and salutatorian from every high school in the Commonwealth. 68 “Vals and Sals” enrolled at UMass Amherst

Inaugural Year of Commonwealth College – The Honors College at the University of Massachusetts

The Computer Science Department opens its new building as part of a new complex for science and engineering

The School of Management hosts Reorganizing Knowledge: Transforming Institutions, Knowing, Knowledge and the University in the XXI Century, an international, interdisciplinary conference

New WORLD Theater celebrates its 20th anniversary and receives funding from the Rockefeller Foundation

The Beckman Scholars Program was created to support undergraduate research in Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemistry

Design of a new model for the General Education curriculum emphasizing learning communities, integrative studies and a global perspective

COMEC Campaign UMass takes top award in Commonwealth – 45% of UMass employees contributed $397,234

Thanks to contributions of Friends of the Library and funding from the President’s Office, the Library’s chain link fence was “whacked” out of existence and replaced with attractive benches and landscaping

UMass sponsors “How People Learn: Transforming the Science Classroom” Conference

Center For Teaching receives The Theodore M. Hesburgh Award- Certificate of Excellence For Faculty Development To Enhance Undergraduate Teaching

Campaign UMass Raises $125,000,000 – Campaign concludes 1 year early

The Center for Student Business, one of the University’s many learning communities, celebrated its 25th anniversary of offering undergraduate students hands-on training and education in cooperative management of small businesses

UMass Amherst offers three online graduate degrees,  a Professional Master of Business Administration; a Master of Science (Nursing) in Community/School Health; and a Master of Public Health

Integrated all Outreach functions under a Vice Chancellor for University Outreach, elevating the stature of Outreach with Teaching and Research

In the last six years, 98% of campus buildings (including all residence halls) were networked which enabled the installation of 21,633 Internet network connection ports

International Programs Office ranked 7th among top public research universities, over 1,000 students study abroad, 1,800 international students study at UMass, and we host 250 international researchers and scholars

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