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Tools & opportunities to bring health and wellbeing to people, place, and planet at UMass!
Are you or someone you know having difficulty making ends meet? The following are some campus resources to help bridge the gap.
Basic Needs Supports
The Dean of Students Office helps students meet emergency needs and cover unexpected expenses to stay on track towards graduation:
- Short Term Loans: Up to $500 for undergraduates and up to $1000 for graduate students.
- Microgrants: Up to $500 for unexpected/isolated financial emergency.
- Angel Fund Emergency Grant: To enrolled undergraduate and graduate students experiencing unexpected financial emergencies due to changes in federal immigration policy.
- Student Care Supply Closet
Food Security
The Dean of Students Office connects students to on and off-campus food security resources, including
- The Amherst Survival Center (ASC) partnership, featuring The Campus Pantry: ASC to enhance food security for the UMass community.
- UMass Amherst Dining Services “No Student Goes Hungry” Food Security Initiatives (Emergency Supplemental Meals, Retail & Café Value Meals, and the Meal Plan Assistance Fund).
- SNAP benefit sign-up assistance.
The Waugh Arboretum: A Landscape Of Serenity
The Waugh Arboretum is a campus wide collection of trees that provides spaces of rest, relaxation, and recreation for our campus community. The Arboretum is accredited by the ArbNet Accreditation Program and is one of only 45 in the world to be recognized at Level IV. It was established in 1944 and was named after the landscape architect, Frank A. Waugh, father of the landscape architecture program on campus, then called the landscape gardening program.
The arboretum is a foundation of the campus, fostering a healthy environment for the body, mind and spirit of our students, faculty and staff. Watch this video by Dr. Rick Harper, Professor UMass Amherst, on trees and our well-being.