Do you want to meet and connect with others on campus? The campuswide Intergroup Dialogue Initiative (IGDI) is pleased to invite all UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff to join facilitated small-group circles during our Days of Dialogue—March 24-26. These dialogue, listening, and storytelling circles invite members of our university community to share and consider similar and different perspectives on a particular topic in small groups. Each circle is co-facilitated by faculty and staff participating in the Dialogue Facilitation Fellows program.
The Okanagan Wellbeing Collective hosted its third annual wellbeing retreat on Jan. 23, at Old Chapel, bringing together campus leaders, staff and community members to advance a shared commitment to health and wellbeing for people, place and planet.
This year’s conference will feature scholars and professional artists from across the country, including keynote speaker, J. Ivy, a hip-hop poet, two-time Grammy Award Spoken Word winner and author.
The Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity and Equity Ambassadors fellowship program is an initiative that enhances student learning and academic success across cultural, social and learning differences through a strength-based, inclusive approach to teaching and learning.
Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow, professor of public policy and history and director of faculty research at the Institute for Social Science Research, and Patricia Griffin, professor emerita of social justice education, joined 11 other scholars in signing an amicus brief supporting a transgender student in West Virginia v. B.P.J.
Student Affairs and Campus Life will host two spring semester retreats on the Amherst campus and the newly renamed Charles River Campus in Newton, inviting all students, faculty and staff a variety of opportunities to step away from daily routines to focus on rest, reconnection and renewal.
Nominations are being accepted until Dec. 15 for the Professor John H. Bracey Jr. Leadership Awards, which will be presented to three outstanding members of the UMass Amherst community at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Brunch on Jan. 20, 2026.
The UMass Office of Equity and Inclusion is proud to announce the Professor John H. Bracey Jr. Leadership Awards, to be presented to three outstanding members of the UMass Amherst community at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Brunch on January 20, 2026. Nominations will be accepted until December 15, 2025.
“I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the thousands of students, staff, faculty, alumni and community members who have come together to offer care, resources and encouragement as those affected begin the road to recovery,” Chancellor Javier Reyes wrote in an email to the university following the fire.