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01/23/2012
Choosing the right bachelor's degree completion program is a big decision. Our information sessions can help by providing you with information and guidance, and giving you the opportunity to ask questions and get advice. Led by an experienced UWW staff member who herself finished her...
01/22/2012
The recently launched UMass Amherst University Without Walls website has just received a first place Interactive Media Award for website design from the Interactive Media Council, Inc. Evaluated for design, content, functionality, usability, standards compliance and cross-browser compatibility, the...
01/10/2012
UMass Faculty members Lisa Fontes, Karen Stevens and Cindy Suopis have been nominated for the UMass Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award.
"Being nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award is one of many highlights and rewards for me at UWW but nothing can outdo the satisfaction I...
01/10/2012
UMass UWW was featured in a January 8 Boston Globe supplement article on hospitality and tourism management degrees and certificate programs. At UMass UWW, students can design their own program of study in hospitality and tourism management taking classes through the UMass Isenberg School of...
11/23/2011
UMass UWW in partnership with UMass Arts Extension offers the nation's only online bachelor's degree with a focus in arts administration. This high demand, innovative degree option, as well as the arts administration certificate program offered by Arts Extension was highlighted in a...
11/22/2011
The UMass Amherst University Without Walls (UWW) was featured in the November 20 Boston Globe supplement article called Schools for Moms. Colleges are Eager to Lure Mothers Back to Class. UWW's Melanie DeSilva stated, "Online education provides a great opportunity for busy parents/moms....
11/17/2011
UMass UWW faculty member and international child abuse expert Lisa Fontes was quoted extensively in a CNN piece on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal entitled "Child-protection laws under scrutiny in wake of scandals." Fontes discusses Pennsylvania's weak mandated reporting...
11/15/2011
Jim Ross '09 is not only one of the world’s most successful telecommunications industry executives, he’s also a devoted husband and father, a lover of great food and wine, and a damn good story teller. His journey to becoming co-founder, Chief Development Officer (CDO) and...
11/08/2011
In a recent UMassOnline blog, UMassOnline's Som Seng recognized UMass UWW's practice of awarding credit for the learning gained from life and work experience, and drew attention to the cost savings that occurs for our UWW students when they earn credits this way.
In the same piece our own...
11/05/2011
In a recent Vally U magazine article entitled, "Life Beyond the Gap" 27 year old UWW student Nayroby Rosa was interviewed about why she decided to return to college. The single mother of a seven year old daughter, Rosa works with at-risk city teens and is completing a program of study in...
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