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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 and librarians are eligible for Active Membership with full voting rights. Retired faculty members and
librarians 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 upon payment of Associate Member
dues. Spouses of Active or Associate Members qualify as Associate members without payment of dues.
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@cns.umass.edu |
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Featured News
SAVE THE DATE
Annual Banquet on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Wednesday,
March 11th
Meeting Agenda
Campus Center Room 904-908
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Coffee, Tea, Juice, Cookies |
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10:15 - 10:40 |
Announcements
& Reports |
Nominations for the offices of
Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
John McCarthy
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Status
of UMass Amherst |
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11:00 - 12:00 |
Charles DiMare
& Paul Collins
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Free
Expression and Student Rights in Higher Education |
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John McCarthy
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
and Distinguished University Professor of
Linguistics. B.A., Harvard and Ph.D., MIT, As the chief academic officer of the campus,
he provides leadership for the mission of the University in education, research, and the
impact of UMass in the Community and the state of Massachusetts.
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Attorney Charles DiMare
Retired Director of Student Legal Services. BA, Pol.Sci., MA Publ. Admin, UMass & JD Vermont Law Sch. Chuck has 40 years of teaching experience at the
UMass Amherst. Many of these courses focused on Higher Education Law and Civil Rights, and has represented or advised hundreds of individuals on misconduct lawsuits, claims, grievances and disciplinary procedures. At Vermont Law School & at Northeastern University (Graduate Criminal Justice Program) he has taught several courses entitled Law Enforcement Civil Liability & Policy Development.
Paul Collins
Prof. of Political Sci. & Director of Legal Studies. Ph.D. & M.A. (political science) Binghamton University and B.S. (political science) University of Scranton. Among his numerous publications are 3 books; 5 book chapters, 28 journal articles, and 4 Law Review articles. His 2008 book
"Friends of the Supreme Court: Interest Groups and Judicial Decision
Making." New York, NY: Oxford University Press, is the Winner of the 2009 C. Herman Pritchett Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist.
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