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Welcome to the Retired Faculty Association The aims of the Retired Faculty Association are:
• To facilitate
constructive contributions by its members to the
University;
• To ascertain the relevant needs of retired faculty and to communicate this information to the
administration; and
• To promote social and intellectual interaction among its members.
All retired faculty members, librarians, and certain
members of the retired professional staff (see Bylaws for
details) are eligible for Active Membership with full voting rights. Spouses of Active or Associate Members qualify as Associate members.
Eligible retirees living outside the Amherst area, retired faculty members and librarians of other colleges or universities, and widows or
widowers of persons who were eligible for Active or Associate Membership, may become Associate Members.
This site aims to provide useful information to retired faculty through the links on the menu at left. If you have suggestions for
types of information you would like to find here contact us at
retfac@umass.edu |
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Featured News
Zoom
Meeting: Wednesday,
November 18th
Meeting Agenda
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10:15 - 10:30 |
Welcome,
nominations, business, announcements |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Tyrone Parham
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Policing
a Diverse Community |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Ray La Raja
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Alexander Theodoridis
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National
Elections Analysis |
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Tyrone Parham
Assistant Vice Chancellor/Chief of Police at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Parham holds a Bachelor's Degree in Crime, Law, & Justice
and a Master's Degree in Workforce Education & Development, both from the Pennsylvania
State University. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy Class #244 and PERF's
Senior Management Institute for Police Class #68. In 1993 he was hired as a patrol
officer and rose through the ranks, holding the positions of detective, lieutenant,
assistant chief and deputy chief before his appointment as chief. Between 2011
and 2016, Parham served as Chief of Police at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
where he led a 51 sworn department on a large college campus with over 47,000 students. In January 2016 he came to UMass to oversee 62 sworn officers
on a large and complex residential college campus consisting of over 30,000 students.
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Ray La Raja
Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Master in Public Policy,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
Ray La Raja's areas of expertise include political parties, interest groups,
campaign finance, elections, political participation, American state and local politics, public policy and political reform. He is Associate
Director of the UMass Poll, which conducts public opinion research in Massachusetts
and the United States to inform policymaking. He is co-founder and former co-editor
of The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics and a member of
the Academic Advisory Board of the Campaign Finance Institute and was past president
of the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association.
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Alexander Theodoridis
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
PhD, U.C Berkeley, M.A. in Public Policy, Harvard.
He also serves as the Associate Director of the UMass Poll.
He started at UMass in 2020 after being an Assistant Professor at U.C. Merced since 2012. His research seeks to understand the ways in which citizens interact with
the political world in an era of hyper-polarization. His interests are in American
electoral politics, with a focus on political behavior/psychology, campaign effects
and policy attitudes. He also focuses on survey methodology, experimental methods,
design-based causal inference, implicit measures, and the intersection of formal theory
and empirical analysis. His publications have won several prestigious awards.
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