The John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston    
"Columbia Point is the place to be!"
Message from Dean Ira A. Jackson
Governor Deval Patrick with Chancellor J. Keith Motley at the MassResults Conference on June 26.
As UMass Boston celebrates its 50th anniversary, all signs point to this being our time. From humble beginnings when the campus was first constructed on what was then a rather bleak toxic waste site surrounded by a polluted harbor next to a very troubled public housing project, the University of Massachusetts Boston has finally come into its own−energetic, important, ascendant.

To paraphrase Vicki Kennedy's words at the opening of a major conference on bipartisanship that was broadcast on CSPAN: "Here on the beautiful campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston, next door to the magnificent John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Study of United States Senate currently under construction ...
Columbia Point is the place to be..."

UMass Boston 50th Anniversary Features
Greater Boston Video: UMass Boston Turns 50
Greater Boston Video: UMass Boston Turns 50
Featured Photos

UMass Boston State House Day
: June 16





Featured Slideshow
McCormack Student Profiles
Aiding Rwanda to Turn the Page

Boston Globe
columnist Adrien Walker writes about two McCormack students building a children's library in Rwanda
Boston - The Right Place to Be
The German-American Fulbright Commission

Charlotte Carnehl, International Relations student
Fulbright Grantee, German Student Program 2013/14
More McCormack News
UMass Boston OLLI Gala Raises Scholarship
Funds for Gerontology Department


Photo:
Dean Jackson, Gaming Commissioner and McCormack Founding Dean  
Stephen Crosby, and OLLI Director Wichian  Rojanawon

Pension Action Center Founder to Retire

Save the Date: Twenty Years, $45 Million in Benefits: Celebrate the Pension Action Center and Its Founder, Ellen A. Bruce

Photo:
Ellen Bruce, JD
Alumni Profile
Gerontology Graduate Appointed to United Nations Committee on Aging

Kelly Fitzgerald '08 takes on a new role to develop a society for all ages.

Career Corner
e-Internship, Virtual Student Foreign Service, U. S Department of State

 Research Manager/Senior Research Manager- Healthcare, Gerson Lehrman Group (Boston, MA)

Director or Head of Public/Government Consulting Practice, Fort Strategic, LLC
(Boston, MA)

Health Care Policy Manager, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(Boston, MA)

Public Policy and Communications Associate, MA Council of Human Service Providers
(Boston, MA)

Community Impact Director, Increasing Youth Opportunities (Boston, MA)

Events
September 17 - 19

Society for Terrorism Research Conference: Communication & Collaboration for Counter-Terrorism
September 23

Diversity & Inclusion Strategies Conference
Don't Miss our Graduate Student Conference















This 10th biennial conference joins in the UMass Boston celebration of of innovation and excellence in academics and research.
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