Center for Teaching and Learning

CTL supports faculty and provides resources focused on student-centered teaching, course and curriculum design, faculty mentoring, intercultural competency, scholarly writing, leadership, and more.

Faculty Development

The Office of Faculty Development (OFD) supports all faculty with services and programs that strengthen research, service, and professional growth. OFD helps faculty navigate career transitions, develop a mentor networks, strengthen leadership skills, enrich scholarly writing, and more.

Teaching at Mount Ida

The UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus offers a wealth of opportunities for students as they engage in their academic pursuits and prepare for meaningful and rewarding careers.

New Academic Programs, Degrees and Certificates

The creation of a new degree program (e.g. BA, BS, MA, MS, PhD) requires multiple levels of review at the university, as well as at the UMass system level (by the UMass Board of Trustees), and at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education). It usually takes at least 1.5 years from start to finish. 

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Michelle Budig

Senior Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

Michelle J. Budig is Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology. As Sr. Vice Provost, Budig works closely with the Provost and campus leadership to support faculty career progression from recruitment to retirement. Budig collaborates with deans, department heads and chairs, the Office of Faculty Development, and other partners in faculty support to offer programming that supports inclusive excellence and faculty success. Budig's scholarly interests include labor market inequalities, wage penalties for paid and unpaid caregiving, work-family policy, and nonstandard employment. Her research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and numerous other professional journals
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