:University of Massachusetts Boston

The University of Massachusetts System dates back to the founding of Massachusetts Agricultural College under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in 1863. Prior to the founding of UMass Boston, the Amherst campus was the only public, comprehensive university in the state.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=3}} As late as the 1950s, Massachusetts ranked at or near the bottom in public funding per capita for higher education, and proposals to expand the University of Massachusetts into Boston was opposed both by faculty and administrators at the Amherst campus and by the private colleges and universities in Boston.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=4}} In 1962, the 162nd Massachusetts General Court expanded the UMass System for the first time to Worcester, Massachusetts with the creation of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=5}} In 1963, UMass President John W. Lederle informed the General Court that more than 1,200 graduates of Boston area high schools qualified to attend the University of Massachusetts were denied admission to the Amherst campus due to lack of space, and endorsed expanding the system with a commuter campus in Boston.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=8}}

At the time, there were 12,000 freshman applications to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with only 2,600 slots, yet the majority of the applicants lived in the Greater Boston area.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=10}} In 1964, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue and State Senator George V. Kenneally Jr. introduced a bill to establish a Boston campus for the UMass System.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=8}} The bill was opposed by several private colleges and universities in the area, including Northeastern University, Boston University, and Boston College (who argued that the state would be better off subsidizing the existing private institutions in the city), as well as by Boston State College (who argued for expanding its campus on Huntington Avenue instead). However, the Huntington Avenue building of Boston State College could not be expanded to accommodate a 15,000-student campus, and the local news media and public opinion generally favored creating the new Boston campus for the UMass System.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=9–10}}

{{See also|Park Square (Boston)}}

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|caption1 = Massachusetts House of Representatives Majority Whip Robert H. Quinn co-sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the House.

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|caption2 = Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Maurice A. Donahue co-sponsored the bill to establish UMass Boston in the Senate.

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|caption3 = Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody (1963–1965) signed the bill into law on June 18, 1964.

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|caption4 = UMass Boston leased part of the Boston Park Plaza (then known as the Statler Hilton Boston) for faculty and departmental office space in the late 1960s, while in February 1966, the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the former headquarters of the Boston Gas Company (in the foreground) which the company had leased to the university in September 1965 for its inaugural semester.

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|caption5 = Also in the late 1960s, UMass Boston leased the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets and converted it into the university's first library.

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| caption6 = Opened in October 1979, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on Columbia Point next to UMass Boston.

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| caption7 = In 1981, the Massachusetts state government announced that the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum would be built next to the JFK Presidential Library.

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| caption8 = Italian literature scholar Carlo L. Golino served as the university's chancellor from 1973 to 1978.

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| caption9 = The JFK/UMass station in April 2016. The MBTA renamed the stop in 1982 after it had been called Columbia Station from when it first opened in 1927.

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In June 1964, with a $200,000 appropriation,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=15}} the legislation establishing the University of Massachusetts Boston was signed into law.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=10}} UMass President John W. Lederle began recruiting freshmen students, faculty, and administrative staff for the fall semester of 1965 (with goals of 1,000 students and 80 faculty members), and appointed his assistant at the Amherst campus, John W. Ryan, as UMass Boston's first chancellor. Ryan recruited tenured faculty members from the Amherst campus to relocate and form the UMass Boston faculty, and appointed Amherst's history professor Paul A. Gagnon and Amherst's provost and biology professor Arthur Gentile to hire the humanities and natural science faculty members respectively.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=15}}

Serving as the new university's first provost,{{Cite web|title=Chancellors & Provosts (1965-Present) – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/the_university/history/chancellors_provosts|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=October 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025210420/https://www.umb.edu/the_university/history/chancellors_provosts|url-status=dead}} Gagnon became the most important faculty member in defining the curriculum and academic focus of the university, saying in June 1965 that "The first aim of the University of Massachusetts at Boston must be to build a university in the ancient tradition of Western civilization."{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=29–36}} Gagnon would be the principal architect of the university's brief attempt to create a Great Books program called the "Coordinated Freshman Year English-History Program",{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=36–37}} which was dismantled by the end of the 1960s.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=38–45}}

Freshman classes started for 1,240 undergraduate students in September 1965 at a renovated building located at 100 Arlington Street in Downtown Boston, formerly the headquarters of the Boston Gas Company (which had leased the building to the university).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=18}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=20–21}} Virtually the entire entering class were residents of Massachusetts, with the great majority living in the Greater Boston area.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=24}} By the fall of 1968, the number of applications to UMass Boston for the fall semester had risen from 2,500 for fall 1965 to 5,700,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=34}} and total enrollment had risen to 3,600.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=27}} In the late 1960s, UMass Boston students on average were 23 years old, typically white and male, working part- or full-time, and either married or living with others in an apartment. UMass Boston also reportedly had the largest population of Vietnam War veterans of any US university and the largest population of African American students of all universities in Massachusetts.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=50–52}}

In February 1966, the 164th Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the building at 100 Arlington Street.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=73}} Over the next three years, the university also leased the Sawyer Building on Stuart Street, the Salada Buildings on Columbus Avenue, a part of the Boston Statler Hotel for faculty and departmental office space, and the Armory of the First Corps of Cadets (which was converted into the university's library).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=49}} The student newspaper, The Mass Media, published its inaugural issue on November 16, 1966, and the Founding Day Convocation for the university was held December 10, 1966.[http://themassmedia.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?pubdateid=15052704&src=browse "UMB Founding Day Convocation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174443/http://themassmedia.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?pubdateid=15052704&src=browse |date=2011-07-14 }}, The Mass Media newspaper, v. 1, issue 1, November 16, 1966. In 1968, a group of students started the folk music radio station WUMB-FM.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=152}}{{cite news|last=Scheible|first=Sue|title=Monteith is a pioneer at WUMB|work=The Patriot Ledger|url=http://www.patriotledger.com/x1942608170/Monteith-is-a-pioneer-at-WUMB|date=September 11, 2004|access-date=August 19, 2017}} In the summer of 1968, inaugural Chancellor John W. Ryan resigned and was succeeded by historian Francis L. Broderick.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=53}} Chancellor Broderick oversaw the reorganization of the university into separate colleges (College I and College II), along with the establishment of the College of Public and Community Service,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=67–69}} and presided over the university's first graduation ceremony on June 12, 1969 (where 500 of the original 1,240 students received diplomas).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=53}}

By early 1967, some younger professors were holding teach-ins and encouraging their male students to burn their draft cards in protest of "American corporate imperialism."{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=55}} The Young Socialist Alliance and the Students for a Democratic Society both had chapters on campus, and in April 1969, the latter group rallied more than a hundred students protesting the decision to move the university campus to Columbia Point.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=56}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=59}} The following month, a student group called the "Afro-American Society", staged an occupation of summer school registration, demanding the immediate hiring of more Black faculty members and the admission of more Black students.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=59–60}} In March 1970, a group of thirty students occupied the chancellor's office after a popular "radical" female professor in the Sociology Department was denied tenure.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=61–63}}Such activism led Chancellor Broderick to approve the formation of a task force led by sociology professor James Blackwell – the university's only tenured African American faculty member – and English professor Mary Anne Ferguson that recommended the hiring of a university affirmative action officer to ensure the equal consideration of minority and woman faculty candidates, and by the mid-1970s, for the UMass Boston Sociology Department to have one-third of its members be black and 40 percent be women – higher ratios than were typical of a university that was neither historically black nor a women's college. Blackwell and Ferguson would go on to play leading roles in establishing the Black and Women's Studies Departments as well.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=59}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=109–115}} Following President Richard Nixon's announcement of the Vietnam War's Cambodian campaign on April 30, 1970, and the subsequent shooting of anti-war protestors at Kent State University on May 4, like hundreds of other universities across the United States, UMass Boston administration suspended regular business operations while the campus became consumed by protests.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=64–67}} In 1972, Chancellor Francis L. Broderick resigned, and was succeeded by Carlo L. Golino in 1973.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=91}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=105}} During Golino's tenure before the move to Columbia Point, the university began awarding its first master's degrees in English and mathematics.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=47}}

{{See also|Columbia Point, Boston|Boston State College}}

On January 28, 1974, the university opened its new campus on the Columbia Point peninsula.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=100}} In 1975, enabled by the move to Columbia Point, Chancellor Carlo L. Golino oversaw the opening of the College of Professional Studies (later renamed the College of Management),{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=107–109}} and in 1976, supervised the merger of College I and College II into a single College of Arts and Sciences.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=105–107}} Golino resigned as chancellor in 1978,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=105}} was succeeded in the interim by Claire Van Ummersen, and succeeded permanently in 1979 by Robert A. Corrigan.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=107}} In October 1979, a dedication ceremony was held for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on a 10-acre site adjacent to the university campus.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=116}}

In 1980, the 171st Massachusetts General Court voted to establish the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education with the authority to consolidate resources for public higher education in the state, and in 1981, the board decided to merge UMass Boston and Boston State College by 1984.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=123}} Such a merger (including the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as well) had been proposed in the state legislature in 1963 when UMass Boston was initially founded.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=127}} Though the 1981 merger had allowed both schools a three-year grace period to ease the transition, a large cut in the state's higher education budget forced the board of regents to require a "shotgun wedding" merger to happen by September 1981 (although the board did allow for it to be delayed until January of the following year).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=124}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=129}} Boston State College's largest programs—its teacher's college, nursing and police administration{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=127–129}}—transferred over to UMass Boston fully intact, and formed the basis of the College of Education, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Criminal Justice program in the Sociology Department respectively.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=128}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=131}}

Despite the Boston State College students having a similar demographic profile to UMass Boston students, many students expressed opposition to the merger.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=129–130}} Many of Boston State College's undergraduate academic departments and programs that had equivalents at UMass Boston were disbanded, and as fewer of the Boston State faculty had PhDs than the UMass Boston faculty did, the board of regents also decided to terminate the employment of hundreds of faculty and staff at Boston State College.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=130–132}} The merger boosted enrollment at UMass Boston by 38 percent in one year (from more than 8,000 in 60 areas of study in 1981 to more than 11,000 in 100 areas of study by 1983),{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=103}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=124}} and as Boston State College had more graduate programs than UMass Boston did at the time of the merger,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=130}} most of Boston State College's graduate programs made the transition and tripled the graduate student enrollment at UMass Boston.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=132–134}} By 1995, graduate students accounted for 21 percent of the university's total enrollment, and in 2011, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences was the ninth largest and was ranked as the 50th best undergraduate nursing program in the United States (and third best in New England) by U.S. News & World Report.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=134–135}}

In 1988, Chancellor Robert A. Corrigan resigned.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=141}} Besides the opening of the Clark Athletic Center and the Boston State College merger, during his tenure, he oversaw the authorization of the university's first PhD program (in environmental science), the opening of the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and the Urban Scholars program for talented Boston Public Schools (BPS) students in 1983,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=124}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=125}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=135}} as well as the opening of the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture in 1984.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=143}}

In 1988, historian Sherry A. Penney succeeded Robert A. Corrigan as chancellor. Her tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts, to which Governor Michael Dukakis responded by ordering all state agencies to cut their budgets in the 1989, 1990, and 1991 fiscal years.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=141}} In response to the budget cuts, Chancellor Penney began initiating major fundraising efforts,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=149, 157}} and despite the decline in state support, implemented multiple research programs, PhD programs, and oversaw a reorganization of the school's colleges.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=141}} In 1989, Chancellor Penney oversaw the opening of both the Urban Harbors Institute and The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, and later oversaw the separation of the College of Arts and Sciences into the College of Science and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts. In 1990, the university launched PhD programs in clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology. In 1993, the College of Public and Community Service established the Labor Resource Center and the College of Liberal Arts established the Institute for Asian American Studies, the College of Education began its partnership with The Mather School,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=146}} and the Boston College Program for Women and Government moved to UMass Boston.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=143–144}} Despite Chancellor Penney's efforts, many programs were consolidated or closed, such as the College of Education's undergraduate education degree.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=144–145}}

In 1994, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education classified UMass Boston as a Master's Comprehensive University I.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=149}} By 1998, the university had four main research areas that accounted for three-quarters of the university's research funding: Environmental Studies, Psycho-Social Functioning of At-Risk Populations, Education, and Health and Social Welfare. In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston's designation to a Doctoral/Research University, Intensive, and UMass Boston now offered seven doctoral programs in public policy, computer science, nursing, and education, in addition to clinical psychology, gerontology, and environmental biology.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=149}} In the 1990s, the university gained campus chapters of Alpha Lambda Delta and the Golden Key International Honour Society.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=149–150}} Enrollment steadily increased during Chancellor Penney's tenure to 12,482 total students and 2,866 graduate students by 2000, and the university went from one in twelve students who were minority or female in 1988 to one in three by 2000.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=150–151}} The percentage of Black faculty rose from 13 percent in 1988 to 20 percent in 2000, and the percentage of women faculty rose from less than one-third in 1988 to 41 percent in 2000.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=145}}

In 2000, Chancellor Penney resigned.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=153}} She was succeeded in the interim in 2000 by David MacKenzie, and permanently in May 2001 by Jo Ann M. Gora.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=157}} During Gora's tenure, the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs became the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies in 2003, and the PhD program in green chemistry, the first in the world, was launched under the direction of chemist and UMass Boston alumnus John Warner in 2004.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=154}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=188}} Gora resigned as chancellor in 2004 and was succeeded in the interim by J. Keith Motley.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=169}} During Motley's interim tenure, the university established a partnership with the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in 2005.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=155}}

On April 2, 2004, a new Campus Center next to Wheatley Hall was opened. Construction for the facility began on July 20, 2001, and was completed during the tenure of Chancellor Gora.{{Cite web|title=Campus Center – Quick Facts – History – Mission – Services|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/campus_center/Campus_Center_Quick_Facts.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125215316/https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/campus_center/Campus_Center_Quick_Facts.pdf |archive-date=2021-11-25 |url-status=live|access-date=March 11, 2017}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=166–167}} It became the new entrance for the campus and was the first building constructed since the Clark Athletic Center was completed in 1979.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=167}} Unlike the original Columbia Point campus buildings, which were uniformly built of brick and faced inward, the Campus Center was designed such that its glass front would look out onto Boston Harbor, and the offices, food court, event space, student clubs, and activities space gave the campus a center of cohesion that was often lacking in the older buildings.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=167–169}} In 2005, Chancellor Gora was permanently succeeded by Michael F. Collins.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=169}}

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| caption1 = J. Keith Motley was the university's Chancellor from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2017. In December 2007, Motley proposed the university's 25-Year Master Plan to redevelop its campus to the UMass System Board of Trustees.

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| caption2 = On February 10, 2020, University of California, Los Angeles Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was unanimously appointed as the university's new permanent Chancellor and he assumed the position the following August.

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In early 2007, Chancellor Collins resigned,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=175–176}} and he was succeeded by J. Keith Motley, the university's first Black chancellor.{{cite news|title=J. Keith Motley Steps Down as Chancellor of UMass Boston|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/j._keith_motley_steps_down_as_chancellor_of_umass_boston|date=April 5, 2017|access-date=August 4, 2017|archive-date=August 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805140621/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/j._keith_motley_steps_down_as_chancellor_of_umass_boston|url-status=dead}} In 2007, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences began the GoKids Boston program to counter childhood obesity,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=170}} and in 2008, the Graduate College of Education renamed itself the College of Education and Human Development.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=184}} In 2010, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching upgraded UMass Boston's designation a second time, now to a Doctoral/Research University with High Activity.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=159}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=184}}

In 2013, the university established its School for Global Inclusion and Social Development (the first of its kind in the world),{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=196}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=200}} its University Honors Program as a separate Honors College,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=196}} and its School for the Environment and launched an interdisciplinary Nantucket Semester Program.{{Cite web|title=About the Nantucket Field Station – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/nantucket/about|access-date=August 20, 2017}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=193}} In 2014, research activity at the university had climbed to $60 million,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=196}} and the university began work on its HarborWalk Improvements and Shoreline Stabilization project.{{Cite web|title=HarborWalk – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/the_university/masterplan/harborwalk|access-date=March 12, 2017}} By the fall semester of 2014, total student enrollment had grown to 16,756 with 4,056 graduate students.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=151}} The number of doctoral students had increased from 230 in the fall of 2000 to 614 in the fall of 2014.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=166}}

In 2014, UMass Boston celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and in 2015, the University of Massachusetts Press published the school's first history about its founding and growth, entitled UMass Boston at 50.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015}} In 2015, the College of Management enrolled close to one-sixth of all students and more than half of the undergraduate students earning degrees in a STEM field were minority or female.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=150–153}} By 2015, UMass Boston students came from 140 different nations and spoke 90 different languages.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=192}} On January 26, 2015, the university opened its first new academic building since the Columbia Point campus was built, a research facility named the Integrated Sciences Complex.{{cite news|title=Integrated Sciences Complex Opens|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/integrated_sciences_complex_opens|date=January 26, 2015|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820162115/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/integrated_sciences_complex_opens|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/01/05/umass-boston-steps-into-light/oondOGJrxLU0erMZro6ZEP/story.html|title=UMass Boston hopes new facility highlights academics|last=Adams|first=Dan|date=January 5, 2015|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=August 20, 2017}} On March 30, 2015, the dedication ceremony for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate was held.{{cite press release|title=MEDIA ADVISORY – EMK Institute March 30 Dedication Speaker Lineup|publisher=Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate|url=https://www.emkinstitute.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/dedicationspeakers|date=March 27, 2015|access-date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116210916/https://www.emkinstitute.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/dedicationspeakers|url-status=dead}}{{cite press release|title=Edward M. Kennedy Institute For the U.S. Senate Opens with Historic Ceremony featuring President Obama, Vice President Biden & Other Dignitaries|publisher=Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate|url=https://www.emkinstitute.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/march30emkopens|date=March 30, 2015|access-date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=September 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926124333/https://www.emkinstitute.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/march30emkopens|url-status=dead}}{{cite press release|title=Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate Opens|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/edward_m._kennedy_institute_for_the_united_states_senate_opens|date=March 31, 2015|access-date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820200838/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/edward_m._kennedy_institute_for_the_united_states_senate_opens|url-status=dead}} On January 25, 2016, the university began a phased opening of its second new academic facility, University Hall.{{cite news|last=Fisher-Pinkert|first=Anna|title=UMass Boston Opens University Hall to Students|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_opens_university_hall_to_students|date=January 25, 2016|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315101615/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_opens_university_hall_to_students|url-status=dead}} In September 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMass Boston within the first tier of national universities on its Best Colleges Ranking for the first time in the university's history, tied at number 220.{{cite news|title=U.S. News & World Report Ranks UMass Boston in Top Tier Nationally|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/u.s._news_world_report_ranks_umass_boston_in_top_tier_nationally|date=September 13, 2016|access-date=August 22, 2017|archive-date=August 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822175349/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/u.s._news_world_report_ranks_umass_boston_in_top_tier_nationally|url-status=dead}}

On March 3, 2017, Barry Mills was appointed the university's deputy chancellor and chief operating officer.{{cite news|title=Barry Mills Appointed Deputy Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer at UMass Boston|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/barry_mills_appointed_deputy_chancellor_and_chief_operating_officer_at_umas|date=March 3, 2017|access-date=March 15, 2017|archive-date=March 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317091306/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/barry_mills_appointed_deputy_chancellor_and_chief_operating_officer_at_umas|url-status=dead}} On April 5, 2017, university officials announced that Chancellor J. Keith Motley would resign at the end of the academic calendar year. UMass System President Marty Meehan stated Deputy Chancellor Mills would serve as interim chancellor "until [university] finances are stabilized and the university is positioned to attract a world-class chancellor through a global search",{{cite news|last=Norton|first=Michael P.|title=UMass-Boston Chancellor Keith Motley To Step Down June 30|publisher=WGBH|url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/04/05/news/umass-boston-chancellor-keith-motley-step-down-june-30|date=April 5, 2017|access-date=January 15, 2022}} specifically to address the university's 2017 operating budget deficit of $30 million.{{cite news|last1=Larkin|first1=Max|last2=O'Keefe|first2=Caitlin|last3=Chakrabarti|first3= Meghna|title=J. Keith Motley, UMass Boston Chancellor, To Step Down|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/04/06/motley-keith-resignation|date=April 6, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2017}} UMass Boston faculty publicly expressed concern that Motley was being scapegoated for the university's budget deficit while Boston City Councilors Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry, and Massachusetts State Representative Russell Holmes called upon System President Meehan to reject Motley's resignation.{{cite news|last=Krantz|first=Laura|date=April 3, 2017|title=Some faculty fear that UMass Boston chancellor is being scapegoated|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/03/umass-boston-fear-that-motley-being-scapegoated/G1fbKLBd5kLhyocrEbcaNJ/story.html|access-date=March 8, 2022}}{{cite news|last=Krantz|first=Laura|date=April 5, 2017|title=Motley to step down as UMass Boston chancellor|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/05/motley-step-down-umass-boston-chancellor/iNM3Kzu6bb17Rse8o71cJI/story.html|access-date=March 8, 2022}}{{cite news|last=Arnold|first=Olivia|date=April 8, 2017|title=UMass Boston rallies around departing chancellor|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/08/rally-supports-umass-boston-chancellor-wake-resignation/omVMre5MRe9fvSptc9oE5H/story.html|access-date=March 8, 2022}}

On April 8, 2017, at a UMass System Board of Trustees meeting, UMass Boston faculty and students protested decisions by university administration to cut offerings of courses (many required for graduation) in the upcoming summer semester,{{cite news|title=UMass-Boston Cuts Summer Courses As It Grapples With Deficit|publisher=WBZ-TV|url=https://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/04/10/umass-boston-cuts-summer-courses-as-it-grapples-with-deficit/|date=April 10, 2017|access-date=June 28, 2018}} as well as other programs and to make expense adjustments which reduced the deficit to approximately $6 million or $7 million.{{cite news|last=Young|first=Colin A.|title=Anger, frustration mark UMass board meeting at Dorchester campus|date=April 13, 2017|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2017/anger-frustration-mark-umass-board-meeting-dorchester-campus|access-date=March 6, 2021}} On July 1, 2017, Barry Mills became interim chancellor after Keith Motley's resignation.{{cite news|title=Board of Trustees Officially Appoints Barry Mills Interim Chancellor of UMass Boston|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/board_of_trustees_officially_appoints_barry_mills_interim_chancellor_of_uma|date=July 17, 2017|access-date=July 18, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820202536/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/board_of_trustees_officially_appoints_barry_mills_interim_chancellor_of_uma|url-status=dead}} A coalition of UMass Boston administrative staff, faculty, and students formed (called the "Coalition to Save UMB") and issued a report authored by faculty calling on Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the Massachusetts General Court to increase state funding to assist the university to service its debt from its campus renewal construction projects and increase capital investments for the university.{{cite report|title=Crumbling Public Foundations: Privatization and UMass Boston's Financial Crisis|year=2017|publisher=Coalition to Save UMB|url=https://fsu.umb.edu/sites/fsu.umb.edu/files/Crumbling%20Foundations%202017-0914.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016201111/https://www.fsu.umb.edu/sites/fsu.umb.edu/files/Crumbling%20Foundations%202017-0914.pdf |archive-date=2021-10-16 |url-status=live|access-date=July 28, 2021}}

In November 2017, an audit commissioned by UMass System President Marty Meehan found that faulty record keeping, a lack of discipline in its budgeting process, and a failure on the part of UMass Boston administration to appreciate the cost of the campus renewal construction projects on the university's operating budget led to the university's $30 million budget deficit,{{cite news|last=Krantz|first=Laura|date=November 9, 2017|title=Chaotic management led to UMass Boston deficit, audit says|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/09/chaotic-management-led-umass-boston-deficit-audit-says/QJqklYdVOVE3c6awl38voL/story.html?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link|access-date=July 28, 2021}} and in the same month, the university laid off 36 employees after laying off about 100 non-tenure track faculty earlier in the year.{{cite news|last=Krantz|first=Laura|date=November 15, 2017|title=Caught in a financial crisis, UMass Boston begins to cut jobs|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/15/three-dozen-layoffs-umass-boston/OwW4xaTfnuy6SgkGJWoCzN/story.html|access-date=July 28, 2021}}{{cite news|last1=Oakes|first1=Bob|last2=Amer|first2=Yasmin|date=September 14, 2017|title=UMass Boston Community Members Call On State To Help Close School's Budget Deficit|publisher=WBUR|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2017/09/14/umass-boston-coalition-report|access-date=July 28, 2021}} In April 2018, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mount Ida College administrators announced that the former school would acquire the latter's campus in Newton after the latter college's closure.{{cite news|last1=Creamer|first1=Lisa|last2=Thys|first2=Fred|title=Mount Ida College To Close; UMass Amherst To Acquire Its Campus In Newton|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/04/06/mount-ida-closing-umass-deal|date=April 6, 2018|access-date=June 26, 2018}} The acquisition was immediately opposed by UMass Boston faculty and students due to inadequate consultation with the Boston campus faculty, the Boston campus' budget deficit, and that because of the proximity of the Mount Ida campus to the Boston campus, the faculty contended that the new campus would compete with the Boston campus.{{cite news|last=Rios|first=Simón|title=For Some At UMass Boston, Mount Ida Deal Stokes Feeling Of Second-Class Citizenship|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/05/03/umass-boston-on-mount-ida-deal|date=May 3, 2018|access-date=June 26, 2018}} As of April 2018, the UMass Boston campus remained the sole campus in the UMass system with a majority-minority enrollment.{{cite news|last=Rios|first=Simón|title=UMass Boston Students, Faculty Want UMass Amherst To Drop Mount Ida Acquisition|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/04/19/umass-boston-upset-umass-amherst-mount-ida|date=April 19, 2018|access-date=June 26, 2018}}

In May 2018, following the approval of the sale by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey,{{cite news|last=Thys|first=Fred|title=Mass. AG Approves Sale Of Mount Ida Campus To UMass Amherst|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/05/15/mount-ida-sale-umass-approved|date=May 15, 2018|access-date=June 26, 2018}} the UMass Boston Faculty Council passed a motion of no confidence in UMass System President Marty Meehan and the UMass System Board of Trustees.{{cite news|last=Dumcius|first=Gintautas|title=UMass Boston faculty leaders declare 'no confidence' in UMass President Marty Meehan, trustees|website=MassLive.com|publisher=Advance Publications|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/umass_boston_faculty_leaders_d.html|date=May 14, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018}} Ten days after three finalists for the UMass Boston chancellor position were named,{{cite news|last=Norton|first=Michael P.|title=3 Finalists Named For UMass Boston Chancellor's Post|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/05/11/umass-boston-chancellor-finalists|date=May 11, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018}} on May 21, 2018, all three finalists withdrew from consideration after faculty members questioned the qualifications of the candidates.{{cite news|last=Thys|first=Fred|title=All 3 Finalists For UMass Boston Chancellor Withdraw|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/05/21/umass-boston-chancellor-decision-postponed|date=May 21, 2018|access-date=June 26, 2018}} On June 20, 2018, UMass System Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Katherine Newman was appointed as the university's interim chancellor.{{cite news|title=UMass Board of Trustees Appoint Katherine Newman Interim Chancellor of UMass Boston|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_board_of_trustees_appoint_katherine_newman_interim_chancellor_of_umas|date=June 21, 2018|access-date=July 5, 2018|archive-date=July 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706021814/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_board_of_trustees_appoint_katherine_newman_interim_chancellor_of_umas|url-status=dead}} In September 2018, students moved into UMass Boston's first dormitory,{{cite news|title=UMass Boston Students Move Into Dorms — First Time In School's 54-Year History|publisher=WBUR|url=http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/09/02/umass-boston-students-move-in|date=September 2, 2018|access-date=September 2, 2018}} and the university opened the free-standing parking garage adjacent to the Integrated Sciences Complex.{{Cite web|title=Parking Garage West - University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/parking-garage-west/|accessdate=September 16, 2023}}

In February 2019, university campus employees protested an administration decision to increase the daily parking fee from $6 to $15 to cover the costs of the garage operation and other expenses.{{cite news|last=Gresci|first=Lisa|title=UMass Boston Workers Protest On Campus Parking Rate Hike|publisher=WBZ-TV|url=https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/02/06/umass-boston-parking-garage-price-fees-hike-protest/|date=February 6, 2019|access-date=March 4, 2021}} During the 2018–2019 academic year, UMass Boston was ranked by multiple publications as being among the best universities in the United States for veteran students.{{cite news|last=Valencia|first=Crystal|title=UMass Boston Returns to Military Friendly List for Sixth Time|date=January 31, 2019|work=UMass Boston News|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_returns_to_military_friendly_list_for_sixth_time#:~:text=UMass%20Boston%20currently%20serves%20more,members%2C%20and%20guardsmen%20and%20women.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215203006/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_returns_to_military_friendly_list_for_sixth_time#:~:text=UMass%20Boston%20currently%20serves%20more,members%2C%20and%20guardsmen%20and%20women.|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2023|access-date=August 6, 2020}} In May 2019, the Pioneer Institute released a white paper co-authored by former Massachusetts State Representative Gregory W. Sullivan that concluded that Chancellor Keith Motley and other UMass Boston administrators were scapegoated for the 2017 fiscal year $30 million budget deficit and that instead the approval by the System Board of Trustees of an accelerated 5-year capital spending plan in December 2014 and an error to a 5-year campus reserve ratio estimate were the cause of the $26 million in budget reductions implemented by interim Chancellor Barry Mills and that the reductions were made at the direction of the UMass Central Office.{{cite report|last1=Sullivan|first1=Gregory W.|last2=Paxton|first2=Rebekah|year=2019|title=Fiscal Crisis at UMass Boston: The True Story and the Scapegoating|publisher=Pioneer Institute|issue=196|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED598642.pdf|access-date=July 28, 2021}}{{cite web|title=Gregory W. Sullivan – Pioneer's Institutes Research Director|publisher=Pioneer Institute|url=https://pioneerinstitute.org/gregory-sullivan/|access-date=January 17, 2023}}

Additionally, the white paper states that the 2017 audit was not conducted in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards or reported in accordance with auditing standards, and that the purchase of Mount Ida College in April 2018 was conducted by a wire transfer from the UMass System for $75 million without being included on the previously approved university capital plan at the time the UMass Central Office ordered the budget reductions rather than UMass Amherst purchasing the Mount Ida campus with loanable funds to be repaid with interest.{{cite news|title=Read the full statement from UMass's president on Mount Ida College|date=April 12, 2018|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/12/read-full-statement-from-umass-president-mount-ida-college/87lkVH8DeTyHkKFyGGopEM/story.html|access-date=July 30, 2021}} The following month, interim Chancellor Katherine Newman issued a press statement disputing the findings of the white paper.{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Jennifer|title=UMass takes heated issue with Pioneer Institute's campus report|date=June 6, 2019|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2019/umass-takes-heated-issue-pioneer-institute-s-campus-report|access-date=April 13, 2022}} In September 2019, the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President addressed the UMass System Board of Trustees to protest the potential offering of equivalent programs at the Mount Ida campus that are already offered at the Boston campus.{{cite news|last=Lannan|first=Katie|title=UMass-Boston faculty protest UMA programs in Newton|date=September 5, 2019|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2019/umass-boston-protests-uma-programs-newton|access-date=March 2, 2021}} The following December, the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union President presented the board with a petition from the Boston campus faculty reiterating their concerns about the Mount Ida campus and requesting more input into its planning.{{cite news|last=Lannan|first=Katie|title=UMass-Boston faculty feel competition from Newton campus|date=December 18, 2019|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2019/umass-boston-faculty-feel-competition-newton-campus|access-date=March 2, 2021}}

In February 2020, Marcelo Suárez-Orozco was unanimously appointed as the new permanent chancellor of the university.{{cite news|last=Lannan|first=Katie|title=Suarez-Orozco confirmed as next leader of UMass Boston|date=February 10, 2020|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2020/suarez-orozco-confirmed-next-leader-umass-boston|access-date=August 13, 2020}} In September 2021, the UMass System Board of Trustees Chair announced that a $15 million endowment would be established for the UMass Boston College of Nursing and Health Sciences as part of a $50 million personal donation to the UMass System (the largest in its history) by the System Board of Trustees Chair and his wife.{{cite news|last=Leung|first=Shirley|date=September 1, 2021|title='We don't want to die with a lot of money in the bank': UMass system gets $50 million gift, the largest in its history, aimed to close inequities|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/01/business/we-dont-want-die-with-lot-money-bank-umass-system-gets-50-million-gift-largest-its-history-aimed-close-inequities/|access-date=September 1, 2021}} In January 2023, the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences received $3 million in federal funding for a home care digital and simulation lab.{{cite news|title=Rep. Lynch touts $3m for UMass Boston home care lab|date=January 25, 2023|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2023/rep-lynch-touts-3m-umass-boston-home-care-lab|access-date=August 4, 2023}} In July 2023, UMass Boston and Mass General Brigham announced an agreement to provide $20 million in funding for a workforce pipeline program in the Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences.{{cite news|last=Dumcius|first=Gintautas|date=July 20, 2023|title=UMass Boston, Mass General Brigham deepen ties with $20m for nursing program|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2023/umass-boston-mass-general-brigham-deepen-ties-20m-nursing-program|access-date=August 4, 2023}} In December 2023, New Balance announced a $10 million grant to expand a sports leadership program at the university into a full institute on the campus that the company provided a $5 million grant to create in 2018.{{cite news|title=New Balance commits $10 million to UMass Boston for sports institute|date=December 27, 2023|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2023/new-balance-commits-10-million-umass-boston-sports-institute|access-date=January 10, 2024}} Pursuant to a report issued by the Boston Public Health Commission,{{cite report|title=Health of Boston 2024|year=2024|publisher=Boston Public Health Commission|url=https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2024/03/HOB_MentalHealth_2024.pdf|access-date=March 27, 2024}} Chancellor Suárez-Orozco and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced a $2.5 million partnership between the university and the Boston Public Schools in March 2024 to create a behavioral health training program to place 263 UMass Boston students in district schools and create a workforce pipeline for BPS students seeking behavioral health careers.{{cite news|last=Daniel|first=Seth|date=March 21, 2024|title=Boston targets $21M to combat youth mental health 'crisis'|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2024/boston-targets-21m-combat-youth-mental-health-crisis|access-date=March 27, 2024}}{{cite press release|title=Mayor Wu Announces $21 Million for Behavioral Health Services and Programming for Youth and Families|date=March 25, 2024|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/recent-news/mayor-wu-announces-25m-grant-to-umass-boston/|access-date=March 27, 2024}} In September 2024, university administration announced a new admissions and transfer program in partnership with Bunker Hill Community College.{{cite news|title=Bunker Hill and UMass Boston will partner on admissions|date=September 25, 2024|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2024/bunker-hill-and-umass-boston-will-partner-admissions|access-date=October 6, 2024}}

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| caption2 = The Science Center was one of the original Columbia Point campus buildings opened in 1974. Demolished in 2020.

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| caption3 = Wheatley Hall is also one of the original Columbia Point campus buildings opened in 1974. Named for poet Phillis Wheatley.

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| caption5 = The UMass Boston campus from Squantum Point Park in Quincy in June 2008. The brick building in the foreground is Wheatley Hall and the white building to its right is the Campus Center.

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| caption6 = The UMass Boston campus in April 2009 from the Morrissey Boulevard entrance. From left to right, the buildings are the Quinn Administration Building, the Healey Library, and McCormack Hall.

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| caption7 = The John T. Fallon State Pier behind the JFK Presidential Library that is operated by the UMass Boston Division of Marine Operations in March 2013.{{cite web|title=Facilities – Marine Operations – UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/marineops/facilities/|access-date=September 22, 2023}}

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UMass Boston is located off Interstate 93 and within one mile of JFK/UMass station, which is served by the Red Line and three MBTA Commuter Rail lines.{{Cite web|title=Public Transportation – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/the_university/getting_here/commuting/public_transit#mbta|access-date=March 10, 2017|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914035024/https://www.umb.edu/the_university/getting_here/commuting/public_transit#mbta|url-status=dead}} A shuttle is available from the MBTA station to campus.

Where UMass Boston would locate its campus permanently was a contentious dispute during the university's early history in the 1960s.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=73–83}} The conflict emerged in 1965, not long after the university was initially founded: UMass President John W. Lederle had insisted upon a campus inside the city limits of Boston, while Boston Mayor John F. Collins publicly asked Chancellor John W. Ryan not to consider a permanent site in Downtown Boston, as a disproportionate amount of the valuable real estate there was already owned by many colleges and other non-profit institutions exempt from the city government's property taxes.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=73}} In 1954, only one new private office building had appeared on the city skyline since 1929,{{cite book|last1=Levine|first1=Hillel|last2=Harmon|first2=Lawrence|title=The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions|year=1992|place=New York|publisher=Free Press|page=67|isbn=978-0029138656}} one in five of the city's housing units were classified as dilapidated or deteriorating and the city was ranked lowest among major cities in building starts, while the only growing industries in the city were government and universities (leading to a narrowing tax base) and the city already had a higher number of municipal employees per capita than any major city in the United States.{{cite book|last1=Levine|first1=Hillel|last2=Harmon|first2=Lawrence|title=The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions|year=1992|place=New York|publisher=Free Press|pages=68–72|isbn=978-0029138656}}

In addition to Mayor Collins, the Boston business community, the Massachusetts General Court, WBZ radio, the editorial board of The Boston Globe, and residents of the South End were also opposed to a permanent downtown campus.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=74}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=76}} Nonetheless, when the university purchased the building at 100 Arlington Street in 1966, many faculty and students interpreted the transaction as a signal that the university intended to settle permanently in Park Square.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=73}} A proposal popular among students and faculty to build a high-rise academic building overlooking the Massachusetts Turnpike in Copley Square was cancelled when the John Hancock Insurance Company purchased the land and built John Hancock Tower there instead.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=73–74}} Another proposal for a campus in the Highland Park area of Roxbury also met with opposition from residents.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=74}} Other proposals to locate the permanent campus near Fenway Park, or South Station and Chinatown, or on golf courses for sale in Newton, were considered but rejected by Chancellor Ryan due to insufficient space or commuting concerns.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=76}}

In 1967, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) published a study, titled An Urban Campus by the Sea,{{Cite web|title=Campus by the Sea :: UMass Boston Historic Documents|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://openarchives.umb.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15774coll22/id/38|access-date=August 5, 2017}} which proposed building the campus on the Columbia Point peninsula. The site was a former landfill, adjacent to the largest and poorest public housing complex in New England,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=77}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=87}} and a mile from the MBTA's Columbia station. The proposal was deeply unpopular among the faculty and students; 1,500 of them subsequently organized a rally in November 1967 on Boston Common demanding a downtown location in Copley Square.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=77}} In April 1969, when the Students for a Democratic Society organized its opposition rally, the student leaders denounced the university as "a 'pawn' masking the Boston Redevelopment Authority's plan to remove poor people from Columbia Point" and that "the university is planning a prestigious dormitory school with high tuition which students from low- and moderate-income families–whom the university was designed to serve–will not be able to attend."{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=59}}

Chancellor Ryan also opposed the Columbia Point proposal, who before he resigned in February 1968, made a counterproposal for a 15-acre campus south of where John Hancock Tower was being built that the BRA rejected.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=77}} Architectural consultants of the university also scouted land near North Station and adjacent to the Boston Garden that was immediately opposed both by the ownership of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation that owned the Boston Bruins (who threatened to move the team out of the city) and Boston Mayor Kevin White.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=79}} In August 1968, after Francis L. Broderick was appointed the university's chancellor, now Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Robert H. Quinn, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Kevin B. Harrington, and State Senator George Kenneally all urged the UMass Board of Trustees to accept the Columbia Point proposal, while Chancellor Broderick asked the board to delay its decision at an October 1968 meeting by one month so that he might be able to deliver a final counterproposal (while another rally at the Massachusetts State House of 2,500 faculty and students still demanded a Copley Square or Park Square location).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=79–81}}

In November 1968, Chancellor Broderick proposed a scattered-site campus of office buildings situated along the MBTA's Green Line in the South End that would be jointly owned by the university and businesses while retaining the original Arlington Street building.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=74}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=81}} However, while the UMass Board of Trustees and UMass President John W. Lederle argued instead for a unified campus on Columbia Point, they allowed a task force an additional month to more fully study Broderick's proposal. In the end, after reviewing the task force's white paper at a meeting in December 1968, the UMass Board of Trustees voted 12 to 4 to accept the Columbia Point proposal.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=82}}

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Beginning in 1970, the construction of the Columbia Point campus was the largest public capital construction project in the history of Massachusetts (exceeded only later by the Big Dig).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=84}} The state government hired a single construction management firm, McKee-Berger-Mansueto (MBM), to supervise six other architectural firms and construction companies to complete the project by September 1973.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=99}} The construction had multiple delays: the Boston Edison Company had not finished its electrical work,{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=99–100}} and because the site was a former landfill (that had only been closed since 1963), a concrete and brick substructure (where all of the campus mechanical systems would run conduits) undergirded by hundreds of driven piles needed to be constructed before the buildings, but pile driving released methane from the former landfill, requiring construction workers to halt production while each release of methane dispersed.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=93–98}}

The Columbia Point campus was originally composed of five buildings connected by a series of skyways on the second floors of the buildings: McCormack Hall, Wheatley Hall, the Science Center, the Healey Library (which was designed by Chicago modernist architect Harry Weese),Cf. [https://healeylibrary.wikispaces.com/ENGL+466 "Statements from The Library at University of Massachusetts Boston Harbor Campus published in 1974 when the library opened"]. "Healey Library -- Opened Spring 1974 -- Architect: Harry Weese. Statements from The Library at University of Massachusetts Boston Harbor Campus published in 1974 when the library opened. Harry Weese, Architect: "The library at the University of Massachusetts' Dorchester campus manages to occupy the central position, not at the end of the axis, but between two structural building continiuums linked by second-story access, facing a plaza. It remains the nexus, the place of quiet, redolent of knowledge." and the Quinn Administration Building.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=93}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=97}}{{Cite web|title=University Roots – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/the_university/history/roots|access-date=August 9, 2017}} To transport students from Columbia station, the MBTA concluded that constructing a skyway from the station to the campus would be too expensive, and the university administration set about planning a shuttle bus system, funded by parking fees.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=99}} Campus facilities would rise from the bottom of the substructure and the bottom of the substructure would provide entry to a parking garage with 1,600 spaces. Because the campus was surrounded on three sides by a bay, exposed to sea breeze and winter storms, the salt water in the atmosphere and the road salt carried from automobiles would eventually damage parts of the substructure beyond feasible and cost-effective repair.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=97}}{{sfn|Commonwealth of Massachusetts|2009|p=40}}

Because the university was underneath flight paths arriving at Logan International Airport, all of the original Columbia Point campus buildings were soundproofed, and because of this, the classroom and offices in the buildings were designed as interior spaces with no windows, and the entrance to every building faced inward onto the campus plaza. Due to the campus being uniformly built of brick and the campus positioned above the landscape, the campus became known as "The Fortress", "The Rock", or "The Prison" colloquially.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=98}}[http://www.dotnews.com/umass%20new%20science%20bldg.html "UMass starts design on new science building"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107084401/http://www.dotnews.com/umass%20new%20science%20bldg.html |date=2009-01-07 }}, The Dorchester Reporter, August 14, 2008. "Now that Gov. Deval Patrick has signed the $2.2 billion higher education bond bill - $125 million of which will go for improvements at the UMass Boston campus – college administrators are hot to trot to begin transforming the 70s-era Columbia Point campus that is often referred to as a 'fortress" or a 'prison.{{'"}} The buildings were rumored to have been designed by architects familiar with the architectural design of prisons (such as Weese, who designed the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center), but also designed so that the plaza could easily be occupied by the National Guard to suppress demonstrations and protests.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=98}} In 1974, the $350 million capital construction budget for erecting more buildings on the campus was frozen due to the 1973–1975 recession, halting any further expansion of the campus.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=102}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=105}} Construction for the Clark Athletic Center (that included an ice hockey arena, swimming pool, and basketball courts) broke ground in 1978 and was completed in 1979.{{Cite web|title=Officials breaking ground for the Catherine Forbes Clark Physical Education Center, 1978 :: University Archives Historic Photographs|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://openarchives.umb.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15774coll24/id/3344|accessdate=March 12, 2017}}{{Cite web|title=Facilities Facts – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/facilities/information/facts|access-date=March 12, 2017}}

In 1977, McKee-Berger-Mansueto, Inc. (MBM), the company contracted to supervise the construction of the campus, came under public scrutiny after its contract with the Commonwealth was criticized in a series of newspaper articles for being abnormally favorable towards MBM, and a special legislative committee (led by Amherst College President John William Ward) was formed to investigate the contract.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=121–123}} A scandal erupted after it was learned MBM paid Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader Joseph DiCarlo and State Senator Ronald MacKenzie $40,000 in exchange for a favorable report from the committee. DiCarlo and MacKenzie were convicted of extortion.Viser, Matt; and Phillips, Frank, [https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/02/waves_of_scandal_rattle_beacon_hill/ "Waves of scandal rattle Beacon Hill"], The Boston Globe, November 2, 2008. "The State House was engulfed in scandal in the 1970's over bribes given to legislators by the contractor building the University of Massachusetts' Boston campus. The Senate majority leader, Joseph J.C. DiCarlo of Revere; a ranking Senate Republican leader, Ronald A. MacKenzie; and James A. Kelly Jr., the Senate Ways and Means chairman, all were convicted in federal court and sentenced to jail time."{{cite news|last=Farrell|first=David|title=Two senators on trial|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=February 20, 1977}}{{cite book|last=Hogarty|first=Richard A.|title=Massachusetts Politics and Public Policy: Studies in Power and Leadership|date=2002|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|pages=242–246|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUp71Q9xngAC&pg=PA242|isbn=9781558493629}} Newspaper columnist Charles Pierce summarized the careless and negligent quality of MBM's construction projects unearthed by the Ward Commission's investigation as follows:

Besides the Worcester jail with the cells that did not lock, there was the auditorium at Boston State College in which the stage was not visible from a third of the seats and the library at Salem State College in which the walls were not sturdy enough to bear the weight of the books. At the UMass-Boston campus, ground zero of the scandal, school officials were forced to erect barricades to keep passerby from being brained by the bricks that kept falling off the side of the library. Unsurprisingly, a completely corrupt system had produced completely shoddy buildings that the taxpayers, already fleeced once, would have to pay to repair.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=94}}

{{See also|Morrissey Boulevard#Flooding and maintenance|Morrissey Boulevard#Biotechnology industry}}

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On July 19, 2006, Chancellor Michael F. Collins ordered the immediate and permanent closure of the substructure parking garage, causing a loss of 1,500 parking spaces.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=175}} Two days later, an article in The Boston Globe summarized the deterioration of the facility:

The University of Massachusetts at Boston has closed an underground parking garage that has been decaying for decades. ... Over the years, the garage has become a dreary labyrinth, with walls and floor so eroded from the salty environment that they look like a coral reef. Nets hang from the ceiling to catch fragments of falling cement, a problem linked to the use of low-quality concrete in the construction.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=173}}{{cite news|last=Silva|first=Cristina|title=UMass closes big garage in Boston|work=Boston.com|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/21/umass_closes_big_garage_in_boston/|date=July 21, 2006|access-date=August 19, 2017}}

Chunks of concrete had been falling from the garage ceiling since the 1990s, and when Chancellor Collins ordered the closure, 600 spaces had already been lost due to ongoing repairs and rerouting of passenger and vehicular traffic. Because of the salt water atmosphere and the road salt from vehicles, the steel reinforcing bars embedded in the campus substructure concrete walls and ceiling became severely degraded, and because all of the campus mechanical systems had run conduits through the substructure, many of those systems could not be repaired and the damage was causing outages of the computer, electrical, heat, and air-conditioning equipment. An engineering report indicated that to repair the garage such that it would be safe for parking would cost $150 million. On October 2, 2006, the university began the process of creating a master plan to renew the campus.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=173–175}} In 2010, a 385-pound section of the garage ceiling below Wheatley Hall fell.{{cite news|last=Dumcius|first=Gintautus|date=February 2, 2023|title=UMass Boston chancellor looks forward, and he very much likes what he is seeing|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2023/umass-boston-chancellor-looks-forward-and-he-very-much-likes-what-he|access-date=February 2, 2023}}

By December 14, 2007, Chancellor J. Keith Motley presented a 25-year master plan to the UMass System Board of Trustees, who accepted the plan in full.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=177}} Included in the 25-year master plan was the proposal to erect the university's first residential facilities that would accommodate 2,000 students, but not with the intention of changing the character of the university from a commuter school to a residential school.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=181–182}} Eight months later on August 7, 2008, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a higher education bond bill with $100 million directed towards the construction of a new integrated sciences complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the university's campus, a second $100 million directed towards constructing a general academic building, and the following week, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts announced that he would accelerate his plans to construct the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Columbia Point next to his brother's presidential library.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=177–179}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=171}}

In December 2009, a report prepared for the state government on the 25-year master plan was released outlining future campus development and construction projects.{{sfn|Commonwealth of Massachusetts|2009|pp=74–123}} By 2013, with the construction of the EMK Institute underway on April 8, 2011,{{cite news|title=EMK Institute Holds Groundbreaking on UMass Boston Campus|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/emk_institute_holds_groundbreaking_on_umass_boston_campus|date=April 8, 2011|access-date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820162124/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/emk_institute_holds_groundbreaking_on_umass_boston_campus|url-status=dead}} the construction of the Integrated Sciences Complex underway on June 8, 2011,{{cite news|title=UMass Boston Breaks Ground on $155 Million Integrated Sciences Complex|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_breaks_ground_on_155_million_integrated_sciences_complex|date=June 8, 2011|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317024110/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_breaks_ground_on_155_million_integrated_sciences_complex|url-status=dead}} renovations to the Clark Athletic Center's gymnasium from March to December 2012,{{cite news|title=Clark Center Gym Renovations to Begin|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/clark_center_gym_renovations_to_begin|date=March 15, 2012|access-date=August 20, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820162044/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/clark_center_gym_renovations_to_begin|url-status=dead}} construction for a second academic building (University Hall) underway on February 27, 2013,{{cite news|title=UMass Boston Breaks Ground on $113 Million General Academic Building No. 1|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_breaks_ground_on_113_million_general_academic_building_no._1|date=February 27, 2013|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314154036/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_breaks_ground_on_113_million_general_academic_building_no._1|url-status=dead}} and a utility corridor and roadway network project begun in the spring of 2013,{{Cite web|title=Utility Corridor and Roadway Relocation Project – UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/utility-corridor-and-roadway-relocation/|access-date=September 16, 2023}} the university's campus became "a multi-site construction zone."{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=180}} Other completed or current projects include:

• A $2.8 million project begun the previous summer to stabilize an eroded 800-foot segment of the Dorchester Bay shoreline with 3,200 tons of stone (including a significant amount of granite unearthed by the Big Dig that was donated by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation), pave a new walkway along the Boston Harborwalk in between the JFK Presidential Library and the Harbor Point Apartments with new benches, lighting, gathering spaces, and an artwork display area that was completed in July 2015;{{cite news|title=New Section of HarborWalk Opens at UMass Boston|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/new_section_of_harborwalk_opens_at_umass_boston|date=July 17, 2015|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314191242/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/new_section_of_harborwalk_opens_at_umass_boston|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=HarborWalk – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/harborwalk/|access-date=August 15, 2023}}
• A $164 million project to develop a new utility corridor and roadway network led by BVH Integrated Services, Inc. and built by Bond Brothers that was completed in 2019;
• A $45 million project managed by Hill International, designed by CannonDesign, and built by Consigli Construction to renovate Wheatley and McCormack Halls, the Quinn Administration Building, and the Healey Library to relocate programs from the original Science Center (to facilitate its demolition) that was completed in January 2020;{{Cite web|title=Renovations to Existing Academic Buildings - University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/renovations-to-existing-academic-buildings/|accessdate=March 13, 2017}}{{Cite web|title=Quad Development – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/quad-development/|access-date=March 4, 2021}}
• A $78 million project to repair the substructure parking garage that was completed by February 2023;{{cite news|last=Lannan|first=Katie|title=UMass Boston: Gov. Baker's Capital Budget Will Fund Needed Garage Repairs|publisher=WGBH|url=http://news.wgbh.org/2017/04/24/local-news/umass-boston-gov-bakers-capital-budget-will-fund-needed-garage-repairs|date=April 24, 2017|access-date=May 9, 2017}}
• A $137 million project managed by Hill International and designed by NBBJ to demolish the original Science Center, the university swimming pool building, the majority of the campus substructure and plaza adjoining those facilities, and to construct a campus quadrangle and 300-space parking lot in their place, which began in July 2020 and was completed in 2024;{{cite news|title=Construction Continues to Transform UMass Boston Campus|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/construction_continues_to_transform_umass_boston_campus|date=July 28, 2020|access-date=March 4, 2021|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423185336/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/construction_continues_to_transform_umass_boston_campus|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=Forry|first=Bill|date=April 3, 2024|title=Four years in, UMass Boston puts the chancellor officially in charge: Friday ceremonies will showcase Dot campus|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2024/four-years-umass-boston-puts-chancellor-officially-charge-friday|access-date=April 11, 2024}}
• A second general-purpose academic building (General Academic Building No. 2), which received $100 million in state funding in 2012 and that is to be built next to Wheatley Hall in between University Drives South and East and the Campus Center bus stop;{{cite news|title=Gov. Patrick Announces $100 Million for New Academic Building at UMass Boston|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/gov._patrick_announces_100_million_for_new_building_at_umass_boston|date=October 3, 2012|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-date=March 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315101621/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/gov._patrick_announces_100_million_for_new_building_at_umass_boston|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=Pinkert|first=Anna|title=UMass Boston Honors Deval Patrick, Introduces Just Imagine Campaign at Golden Gala|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_honors_deval_patrick_introduces_just_imagine_campaign|date=October 3, 2012|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-date=August 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820091214/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_honors_deval_patrick_introduces_just_imagine_campaign|url-status=dead}}{{sfn|Commonwealth of Massachusetts|2009|pp=102–105}}
• A project to restore the Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex and to construct a mixed-use facility on an adjacent 10-acre site for which the UMass Building Authority issued a request for information in January 2020,{{cite news|last=Forry|first=Bill|title=UMass seeks private developer for Calf Pasture Pumping Station, adjacent parcels on Columbia Point|date=January 10, 2020|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2020/umass-seeks-private-developer-calf-pasture-pumping-station-adjacent|access-date=March 2, 2021}} received eight proposals in response by the following September,{{cite news|last=Herman|first=Colman M.|title=Developers offer ideas to UMass on Calf Pasture site|date=September 23, 2020|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2020/developers-offer-ideas-umass-calf-pasture-site|access-date=March 5, 2021}} and issued a request for proposal in July 2021.{{cite news|last=Dumcius|first=Gintautas|title=UMass officials seek proposals for Calf Pasture redevelopment|date=July 23, 2021|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2021/umass-officials-seek-proposals-calf-pasture-redevelopment|access-date=January 5, 2022}}

In June 2021, Chancellor Suárez-Orozco initiated the development of an updated campus master plan.{{cite web|title=Master Plan – UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/campus-master-plan/|access-date=September 16, 2023}}{{cite web|title=Plans – UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/about/leadership-administration/campus-plans/|access-date=September 16, 2023}} In October 2018, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced a comprehensive climate change adaptation proposal to protect the Boston Harbor coastline from flooding.{{cite news|last=Gellerman|first=Bruce|date=October 17, 2018|title=Walsh Outlines Plan To Protect Boston Harbor From Flooding|publisher=WBUR|url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/10/17/walsh-resilient-boston-harbor|access-date=March 9, 2022}} In October 2020, the Walsh administration released a 174-page climate change adaptation report for the Boston Harbor coastline in Dorchester with a section on Columbia Point and Morrissey Boulevard.{{cite news|last=Forry|first=Bill|date=November 5, 2020|title=Operation Resiliency: Safeguards for Dot 'Shoreway' put at up to $215m|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2020/operation-resiliency-safeguards-dot-shoreway-put-215m|access-date=March 9, 2022}}{{cite report|title=Coastal Resilience Solutions for Dorchester: Final Report|year=2020|pages=86–113|website=boston.gov|url=https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2020/10/Climate%20Ready%20Dorchester-Final%20Report%20%28Spreads%20for%20web%29.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101012102/https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2020/10/Climate%20Ready%20Dorchester-Final%20Report%20(Spreads%20for%20web).pdf |archive-date=2020-11-01 |url-status=live|access-date=March 16, 2022}}

• Calf Pasture Pumping Station – Originally built and designed by Boston Architect George Albert Clough in 1883, the sewage treatment plant is currently being evaluated by UMass Building Authority for redevelopment.{{cite web|title=Historic Boston Inc (HBI) {{!}} UMass Boston Readies Calf Pasture Pumping Station for Redevelopment|date=24 November 2021 |url=https://historicboston.org/umass-boston-readies-calf-pasture-pumping-station-for-redevelopment/|access-date=2022-02-17|language=en-US}}
• Healey Library – Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974. Named for Joseph P. Healey, UMass System Board of Trustees Chair (1969–1981).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=93}}{{cite web|title=Q. Would you have any information about Joseph P. Healey, the person the library is named for? - Ask a Librarian|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://umb.libanswers.com/faq/146377|access-date=March 13, 2017}}
• McCormack Hall – Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974. Named for John W. McCormack, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1962–1971).{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Paul M.|date=April 26, 1985|title=Biography, John W. McCormack: Prepared for the Dedication of John W. McCormack Hall at the University of Massachusetts at Boston |url=https://archive.org/stream/johnwmccormack03paul#page/n7/mode/2up|location=Boston, MA|publisher=University of Massachusetts at Boston}}
• Quinn Administration Building – Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974. Named for Robert H. Quinn, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1967–1969) and UMass System Board of Trustees Chair (1981–1986).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=5}}{{cite news|last=O'Sullivan|first=Jim|title=Robert H. Quinn, former Mass. attorney general and House speaker, has died|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/01/13/robert-quinn-former-mass-attorney-general-and-house-speaker-has-died/kRJbIfk5IVkP3ajhMyXeyM/story.html|accessdate=January 13, 2014|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=January 13, 2014}}
• Science Center – Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974. The facility was demolished as part of a $137 million project to construct a campus quad and 300-space parking lot in its place that began in July 2020.
• Wheatley Hall – Original Columbia Point campus building opened in 1974. Named for Revolutionary War-era and first-published African-American female poet Phillis Wheatley.{{cite news|last=Locke|first=Colleen|title=UMass Boston Professors to Discuss Phillis Wheatley Saturday Before Theater Performance|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_professors_to_discuss_phillis_wheatley_saturday|date=February 11, 2016|accessdate=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308194725/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_professors_to_discuss_phillis_wheatley_saturday|url-status=dead}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=112}}
• Clark Athletic Center – Broke ground in 1978 and completed in 1979. On October 3, 2000, hosted the first debate between Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 U.S. presidential election.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=153}}
• Campus Center – Broke ground in 2001 and completed in 2004.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=166–167}} The building was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm Kallmann McKinnell & Wood and built by the Suffolk Construction Company at a cost of $80 million.{{Cite web|title=University of Massachusetts, Boston Campus Center, Boston by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects|publisher=Kallmann McKinnell & Wood|url=http://www.kmwarch.com/project.aspx?id=54|access-date=August 19, 2017}}
• Integrated Sciences Complex – Broke ground in 2011 and completed in 2015. The building cost $182 million to construct, was designed by the Boston-based architectural firm Goody Clancy, and was constructed by Walsh Brothers.{{Cite web|title=Integrated Sciences Complex – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/integrated-sciences-complex/|accessdate=September 16, 2023}}
• Monan Park – Broke ground and completed in 2015.{{cite news|last=Locke|first=Colleen|title=UMass Boston Celebrates Groundbreaking of Monan Park, a Fenway for Columbia Point|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_groundbreaking_of_monan_park_a_fenway_for_columbia_point|date=June 12, 2015|accessdate=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317022547/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_groundbreaking_of_monan_park_a_fenway_for_columbia_point|url-status=dead}} The construction was supported by a $2 million gift from the Yawkey Foundation{{Broken anchor|date=2025-02-03|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Tom Yawkey#Legacy|reason= The anchor (Legacy) has been deleted.}}, was built with the exact dimensions of Fenway Park, and was named for Boston College President J. Donald Monan, SJ.{{cite news|title=UMass Boston and BC High Dedicate New Monan Park Baseball Complex May 6|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/replica_of_fenway_park_to_be_dedicated_on_columbia_point|date=May 5, 2016|accessdate=March 12, 2017|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314154039/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/replica_of_fenway_park_to_be_dedicated_on_columbia_point|url-status=dead}} Jointly owned with Boston College High School.
• University Hall – Broke ground in 2013 and opened in 2016. The building cost $130 million to construct, was designed by the Boston-based Wilson Architects, and was constructed by the Gilbane Building Company.{{Cite web|title=University Hall – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/university-hall/|accessdate=September 16, 2023}}
• Motley Residence Hall – Broke ground in 2016 and opened in 2018.{{cite news|title=UMass Boston Breaks Ground on 1,000-Bed Residence Hall|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_breaks_ground_on_1000_bed_residence_hall|date=December 1, 2016|accessdate=March 13, 2017|archive-date=March 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315022925/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_breaks_ground_on_1000_bed_residence_hall|url-status=dead}} The 1,077-bed residence halls cost $120 million to construct, was led by Capstone Development Partners, built by Shawmut Construction, and designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects.{{Cite web|title=Residence Hall 1 - University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/campus-planning/projects/residence-hall-1/|accessdate=March 13, 2017}} In April 2023, university administration dedicated the dormitories in honor of former Chancellor J. Keith Motley and his wife.{{cite news|title=UMass Boston dorms celebrate Motleys|date=March 8, 2023|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2023/umass-boston-dorms-celebrate-motleys|access-date=March 21, 2023}}{{cite news|last=Forry|first=Bill|date=May 3, 2023|title=UMass Boston gives Motleys their due|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/columns/2023/umass-boston-gives-motleys-their-due|access-date=May 4, 2023}}
• Parking Garage West – Broke ground in 2017 and opened in 2018.{{cite news|title=Parking Garage Construction Starts|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/parking_garage_construction_starts|date=February 1, 2017|accessdate=March 13, 2017|archive-date=March 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331210037/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/parking_garage_construction_starts|url-status=dead}} The 1,400-space free-standing parking garage cost $69 million to construct, was managed by Skanska, built by the Suffolk Construction Company, and designed by Fennick McCredie Architecture.{{cite news|last=Sheehan|first=Daniel|title=Protest planned for Wednesday over UMass parking fees|date=February 5, 2019|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2019/protest-planned-wednesday-over-umass-parking-fees|access-date=March 4, 2021}}

{{See also|Bayside Expo Center#UMass Boston acquisition|Bayside Expo Center#Bay City development}}

UMass Boston's Institute for New England Native American Studies and Institute for Community Inclusion (UMass Boston's joint program with Boston Children's Hospital that is part of the national Association of University Centers on Disabilities){{Cite web|title=Institute for Community Inclusion – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/sgisd/ci|access-date=March 13, 2017}} have their main offices on the fourth floor of the Bayside Office Center at 150 Mount Vernon Street,{{Cite web|title=Institute for New England Native American Studies|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/inenas|access-date=March 13, 2017}}{{cite web|title=ICI – Directions|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.communityinclusion.org/doc.php?doc_id=8&type=project&id=35|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116213012/https://www.communityinclusion.org/doc.php?doc_id=8&type=project&id=35|url-status=dead}} which is adjacent to the former Bayside Expo Center and down the street from the main campus.{{cite web|title=Transportation Map|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/university/campus_map_jun517.pdf|access-date=June 7, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116201658/https://www.umb.edu/404|url-status=dead}} UMass Boston's Early Learning Center that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children is located at 2 Harbor Point Boulevard in the Harbor Point Apartments complex adjacent to the campus.{{cite web|title=Early Learning Center – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/life_on_campus/elc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115091720/http://www.umb.edu/life_on_campus/elc/|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 15, 2011|access-date=March 13, 2017}} UMass Boston's Biology Department and School for the Environment also have a field station on Nantucket.{{cite web|title=Labs and Facilities – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology/facilities|access-date=March 13, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Nantucket – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/nantucket|access-date=March 13, 2017}}

In 2009, the Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure to a Florida-based real estate firm, LNR/CMAT, and on May 19, 2010, the university purchased the property to use as campus facilities and to recoup 1,300 parking spaces after the closure of the campus substructure parking garage in 2006.{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|pp=180–181}}{{cite news|last=Forry|first=Ed|url=http://www.dotnews.com/2009/umass-boston-seeks-buy-bayside-expo|title=UMass-Boston seeks to buy Bayside Expo; Motley says no plans for dorms|work=Dorchester Reporter|date=December 16, 2009}} In January 2018, the UMass Building Authority put the university's Bayside Expo Center property up for sale.{{Cite news|url=http://www.wbur.org/edify/2018/01/25/umass-bayside-sale|title=UMass Boston Lists Bayside Site For Potential Sale|last=Rios|first=Simón|date=January 25, 2018|publisher=WBUR|access-date=January 25, 2018}} In February 2019, the UMass System Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 99-year final lease agreement for the Bayside Expo Center with Accordia Partners for $192 million to $235 million.{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Jennifer|last2=Forry|first2=Bill|title=UMass Taps Developer For Bayside Site In Deal Worth Up To $235 Million|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2019/umass-board-approves-development-team-tentative-lease-agreement|date=February 14, 2019|accessdate=January 11, 2022}}{{cite news|last1=Trojano|first1=Katie|title=Bayside developers plan 'vision' sessions with their neighbors|work=Dorchester Reporter|url=https://www.dotnews.com/2019/bayside-developers-plan-vision-sessions-their-neighbors|date=September 10, 2019|accessdate=January 11, 2022}}

The university confers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, and also operates certificate programs and a corporate, continuing, and distance learning program. There are eleven schools and colleges at UMass Boston: the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Mathematics, School for the Environment, College of Management, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, College of Public and Community Service, College of Education and Human Development, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies and Global Studies, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, Honors College, and College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS).

The university is a member of the Urban 13 universities, alongside schools like Temple University and the University of Pittsburgh. The university maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations, a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AFsDgAAQBAJ|title=Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities|last=Golden|first=Daniel|date=2017-10-10|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|isbn=978-1-62779-636-1|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/universities/university-of-international-relations|title=University of International Relations|website=Australian Strategic Policy Institute|language=en-au|access-date=2019-11-27|archive-date=2020-08-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809104244/https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/universities/university-of-international-relations/|url-status=dead}}

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| USNWR_NU = 228

| THE_WSJ = 360

| USNWR_W = 417

| Forbes = 278

| Wamo_NU = 130

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In the 2017–2018 academic year, the five most popular majors at the university were Management, Biology, Psychology, Exercise and Health Sciences, and Nursing. Within the College of Liberal Arts, the five most popular majors were Psychology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Communication Studies, and English. Within the College of Science and Mathematics, the five most popular majors were Biology, Computer Science, Biochemistry, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering. Within the College of Management, the five most popular concentrations were Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Information Technology, and International Management. The five most popular minors at the university were Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Criminal Justice, and English (tied with Biology).{{cite web|year=2018|title=Enrollment Trends in Undergraduate Minors, Fall Terms|publisher=UMass Boston Office of Institutional Research and Policy Studies|url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/oirp/TABLE32-Undergraduate_Minors_.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116195848/https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/oirp/TABLE32-Undergraduate_Minors_.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-16 |url-status=live|access-date=December 19, 2018}}

UMass Boston is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.{{cite web|title=Massachusetts Institutions – NECHE|publisher=New England Commission of Higher Education|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/ma/|access-date=May 26, 2021}} Additionally, the College of Management is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB),{{cite web|title=DataDirect – General|publisher=Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business|url=https://datadirect.aacsb.edu/public/profiles/profile.cfm?interstitialComplete=1&runReport=1&unitid=54709&userType=All|access-date=June 7, 2017}} and the College of Nursing and Health Services holds accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing. The Family Therapy Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Marital and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE).

In 2016, UMass Boston's faculty of 1,243 consisted of 182 tenure-track and 210 non-tenure-track professors. 96 percent of the faculty held the highest degree in their fields and the student-teacher ratio was 16:1.{{cite web|title=The University – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/the_university|access-date=July 15, 2017|archive-date=November 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127015459/https://www.umb.edu/the_university/|url-status=dead}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/university-of-massachusetts-boston/|title=University of Massachusetts Boston|magazine=Forbes}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/umass-boston-2222|title=University of Massachusetts--Boston – Profile, Rankings and Data – US News Best Colleges|magazine=U.S. News & World Report}} It includes poet Lloyd Schwartz (who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994 and co-edited the Library of America's Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters in 2008),{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=177}} and Jill McDonough,{{cite web|title=Poet Jill McDonough – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/poet_jill_mcdonough|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=February 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226172638/https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/poet_jill_mcdonough|url-status=dead}} translator and Slavic philologist Diana Lewis Burgin,{{cite web|title=About the Author|url=http://www.dianaburgin.com/AuthorBio.html|access-date=March 17, 2017}} linguist Donaldo Macedo,{{cite web|title=Donaldo Macedo - Hachette Book Group|date=27 June 2017|access-date=March 4, 2021|publisher=Hachette Book Group|url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/donaldo-macedo/}} author Padraig O'Malley,{{cite web|title=Padraig O'Malley – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/moakley/about/padraig_omalley|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=September 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926115005/https://www.umb.edu/moakley/about/padraig_omalley|url-status=dead}} feminist scholar Carol Cohn,{{cite web|title=Carol Cohn – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/carol_cohn|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813143659/https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/carol_cohn|url-status=dead}} economists Julie A. Nelson and Randy Albelda,{{cite web|title=Julie A. Nelson|url=https://sites.google.com/site/julieanelsoneconomist/home|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Randy Albelda – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/randy_albelda|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=August 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818213226/https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/randy_albelda|url-status=dead}} philosophers Lynne Tirrell and Lawrence Blum,{{cite web|title=Lynne Tirrell Philosophy, U Mass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://faculty.www.umb.edu/lynne_tirrell/Welcome.html|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Philosopher Lawrence Blum – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/philosopher_lawrence_blum|access-date=March 4, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128115153/https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/philosopher_lawrence_blum|url-status=dead}} political scientists Leila Farsakh and Thomas Ferguson,{{cite web|title=Leila Farsakh – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/leila_farsakh|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015615/https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/leila_farsakh|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Thomas Ferguson – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/thomas_ferguson|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=October 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029131824/https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/thomas_ferguson|url-status=dead}} psychologist Sharon Lamb,{{cite web|title=Sharon Lamb|url=http://www.sharonlamb.com|access-date=March 17, 2017}} Monet expert Paul Hayes Tucker,{{cite web|title=Art Historian Paul Hayes Tucker – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/paul_tucker|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=February 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226172617/https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/paul_tucker|url-status=dead}} biologist Kamaljit S. Bawa,{{cite web|title=Sustainability Pioneer and Expert Kamaljit Bawa – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/biologist_kamaljit_bawa|access-date=March 4, 2021|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128215500/https://www.umb.edu/research/recognizing_excellence/outstanding_faculty/biologist_kamaljit_bawa|url-status=dead}} and physicist Benjamin Mollow, discoverer of the Mollow triplet.{{cite web|title=Benjamin Mollow – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/faculty_staff/benjamin_mollow|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925025908/https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/faculty_staff/benjamin_mollow|url-status=dead}}

Former faculty members include biblical scholar Richard A. Horsley,{{cite web|title=Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|url=https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2013/7293.html|access-date=March 17, 2017}} chemist John Warner,{{cite web|title=John Warner – Harvard Extension School|url=https://www.extension.harvard.edu/faculty-directory/john-warner|access-date=April 7, 2017|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113093608/https://www.extension.harvard.edu/faculty-directory/john-warner|url-status=dead}} evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden,{{cite web|title=Joan Roughgarden|publisher=Stanford University|url=https://web.stanford.edu/~rough/Roughgarden-CV-20120611.html|access-date=December 12, 2019|archive-date=December 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219161747/https://web.stanford.edu/~rough/Roughgarden-CV-20120611.html|url-status=dead}} feminist writers Beverly Smith and Christina Hoff Sommers,{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=Michelle|title=Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-5336-2|page=39|date=November 26, 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iR6NVzFEntgC&q=%22Beverly+Smith%22+%22University+of+Massachusetts+Boston%22&pg=PA39|quote=One founding member of the collective was Beverly Smith, who taught one of the earliest courses on "women's health" at the University of Massachusetts, Boston ...}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aei.org/scholar/christina-hoff-sommers/|title=Christina Hoff Sommers - AEI|publisher=American Enterprise Institute|access-date=October 29, 2017}} politician Mary B. Newman (namesake of the Mary B. Newman Award for Academic Excellence),"[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/440852956/ Mary Newman, 'fighting Quaker' of the Massachusetts GOP; at 86]" (obituary). Boston, Massachusetts: The Boston Globe, December 9, 1995, p. 19. historians Edward Berkowitz,{{cite web|title=Edward Berkowitz – Department of History – The George Washington University|publisher=George Washington University|url=https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/edward-berkowitz|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Complete C.V.|publisher=George Washington University|url=https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/history.columbian.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Berkowitz_CV.pdf|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517132955/https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/history.columbian.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Berkowitz_CV.pdf|archive-date=May 17, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} James Green,{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae – James Green Works|url=http://jamesgreenworks.com/cv/|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701212022/http://jamesgreenworks.com/cv/|url-status=dead}} Peter Linebaugh,{{cite web|title=Peter Linebaugh|url=http://www.utoledo.edu/al/history/faculty/plinebaugh.html|access-date=March 17, 2017}} William Andrew Moffett, Mark Peattie,{{cite web|title=FSI – Mark R. Peattie, renowned expert on Japanese wartime history, dies|date=7 February 2014 |publisher=Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies|url=http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/mark_r_peattie_renowned_expert_on_japanese_wartime_history_dies_20140207|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=FSI – Mark Peattie|publisher=Hoover Institution|url=http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/mark_peattie|access-date=March 17, 2017}} and James Turner,{{cite web|title=James Turner – University of Notre Dame|publisher=University of Notre Dame|url=https://history.nd.edu/people/james-turner/}}{{cite web|title=CV|publisher=University of Notre Dame|url=https://history.nd.edu/assets/47882/|access-date=March 17, 2017}} literary scholar Carlo L. Golino (who served as the university's chancellor from 1973 to 1978),{{cite web|title=Carlo L. Golino, 77, A University Official|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/18/obituaries/carlo-l-golino-77-a-university-official.html|date=February 18, 1991|access-date=March 17, 2017}} mathematicians Amir Aczel,{{cite web|title=Amir Aczel – Faculty – Math Department – UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.math.umb.edu/people/faculty_homepage.php?id=3|access-date=March 17, 2017}} Victor S. Miller, and Robert Thomas Seeley,{{cite web|title=Robert T. Seeley – Faculty – Math Department – UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.math.umb.edu/people/faculty_homepage.php?id=136|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society|publisher=American Mathematical Society|url=http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list|access-date=March 17, 2017}} computer scientist Patrick O'Neil,{{cite web|title=IN MEMORIAM: Patrick O'Neil – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/faculty_staff/patrick_oneil|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925025900/https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/faculty_staff/patrick_oneil|url-status=dead}} neurologist M. V. Padma Srivastava,{{cite web|title=Prof M V Padma|publisher=All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi|url=http://www.aiims.edu/en/2014-12-18-11-27-59/neurology_faculty.html?id=1390|access-date=March 17, 2017}} novelists Jaime Clarke,{{cite web|title=About Us Newtonville Books|url=https://www.newtonvillebooks.com/cms/about-us/|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=July 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708085639/https://www.newtonvillebooks.com/about-us/|url-status=dead}} Elizabeth Searle,{{cite web|title=Elizabeth Searle – Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing – University of Southern Maine|publisher=University of Southern Maine|url=https://usm.maine.edu/stonecoastmfa/elizabeth-searle|access-date=March 17, 2017}} and Melanie Rae Thon,{{cite web|title=CV|publisher=University of Utah|url=https://faculty.utah.edu/bytes/curriculumVitae.hml?id=u0223226|access-date=April 7, 2017}} philosopher Jane Roland Martin,{{cite web|title=Jane Roland Martin – The Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning & Dialogue – Cambridge, MA|url=http://www.ikedacenter.org/thinkers-themes/thinkers/essays/martin-learning-everywhere|access-date=March 17, 2017}} poets Martha Collins and Sabra Loomis,{{cite web|title=Martha Collins, Poet|url=http://www.marthacollinspoet.com|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Sabra Loomis|publisher=HarperCollins|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/cr-105471/sabra-loomis|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=September 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925142333/https://www.harpercollins.com/author/cr-105471/sabra-loomis/|url-status=dead}} political scientists Jalal Alamgir and Kent John Chabotar,{{cite web|title=About Jalal|url=http://www.jalalalamgir.com/About-Jalal.html|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=January 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128094627/http://www.jalalalamgir.com/About-Jalal.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Kent Chabotar Announces Plans to Retire as President|publisher=Guilford College|url=http://www.guilford.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=88&ModuleId=51|date=January 17, 2014|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317233315/http://www.guilford.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=88&ModuleId=51|archive-date=March 17, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} clinical psychologist David Lisak,{{cite news|last=Shapiro|first=Joseph|title=Myths That Make It Hard To Stop Campus Rape|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124272157|date=March 4, 2010|access-date=April 7, 2017}}{{cite news|last=LeFauve|first=Linda M.|title=The Misleading Video Interview With a Rapist at the Heart of the Campus Sexual Assault Freakout|work=Reason|url=http://reason.com/archives/2015/11/20/lisak-frank-interview-problem-rape|date=November 20, 2015|access-date=April 7, 2017}} social psychologist Melanie Joy,{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/melanie-joy-phd|work=The Huffington Post|title=Melanie Joy, Ph.D. – The Huffington Post}} and sociologists Benjamin Bolger and Robert Dentler.{{cite web|title=Robert Dentler, 79, Expert on Desegregation – Obituary (Obit); Biography|work=The New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6D8123DF934A35757C0A96E9C8B63|date=April 7, 2008|access-date=March 17, 2017}}

The following free-standing institutes and centers are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.{{cite web|title=Research – Institutes & Centers – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/research/institutes_centers|access-date=May 28, 2017}}

• Center for Social Development and Education{{cite web|title=Center for Social Development and Education – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/csde|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Survey Research{{cite web|title=Center for Survey Research – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/csr|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Institute for Asian American Studies{{cite web|title=Institute for Asian American Studies – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/iaas|access-date=May 28, 2017}} (a member of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium)
• Institute for Community Inclusion{{cite web|title=The Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.communityinclusion.org|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration{{cite web|title=Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration – UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School of Public and Global Studies – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/mopc|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy{{cite web|title=The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/gastoninstitute|access-date=May 28, 2017|archive-date=December 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201222194000/https://www.umb.edu/gastoninstitute|url-status=dead}}
• Urban Harbors Institute{{cite web|title=University of Massachusetts Boston – Urban Harbors Institute – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/uhi|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Venture Development Center{{cite web|title=VDC – We Power Global Entrepreneurs – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/vdc|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences{{cite web|title=William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences – UMass Boston – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/joinerinstitute|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture{{cite web|title=William Monroe Trotter Institute – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/trotter|access-date=May 28, 2017}}

The following university-wide institutes and centers are operationally managed by collective leadership teams appointed by the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

• Center of Science and Mathematics in Context{{cite web|title=COSMIC (Center of Science and Mathematics in Context) – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cosmic|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy (a collaborative venture with the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center){{cite web|title=Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy (CPCT) – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cpct|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Confucius Institute{{cite web|title=The University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/confucius|access-date=May 28, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913184509/https://www.umb.edu/confucius|url-status=dead}}
• Developmental Sciences Research Center
• Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation{{cite web|title=Institute for Early Education Leadership and Innovation – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/earlyedinstitute|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Institute for International and Comparative Education{{cite web|title=Institute for International and Comparative Education – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/iice|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute{{Cite web |last=Boston |first=UMass |title=Centers & Institutes - UMass Boston |url=https://www.umb.edu/research/centers-institutes/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.umb.edu |language=en}}
• Sustainable Solutions Lab{{cite web|title=Sustainable Solutions Lab – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/ssl|access-date=May 28, 2017}}

The following institutes and centers are administered by their college or department.

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• Adult Literacy Resource Institute
• Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research{{cite web|title=Fiske Center|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.fiskecenter.umb.edu|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections{{cite web|title=batec.org|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://batec.org|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks{{cite web|title=CESN Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.cesn.org|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Collaborative Leadership{{cite web|title=The Center for Collaborative Leadership – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/leaders|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Environmental Health, Science, and Technology
• Center for Governance and Sustainability{{cite web|title=Center for Governance and Sustainability – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cgs|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Green Chemistry{{cite web|title=Center for Green Chemistry – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/greenchemistry|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Innovation and Excellence in eLearning{{cite web|title=Center for Innovation and Excellence in eLearning – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/centers/ciee|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Innovative Teaching{{cite web|title=University of Massachusetts Boston – Center for Innovative Teaching – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cit|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development{{cite web|title=Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cpdd|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Portuguese Language – Instituto Camoes{{cite web|title=Home – Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua|url=http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/en/|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters{{cite web|title=Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/crscad|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging{{cite web|title=Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/demographyofaging|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Social Policy{{cite web|title=Center for Social Policy – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/csp|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness{{cite web|title=Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/serc|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for the Study of Gender, Security, and Human Rights{{cite web|title=The Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights|url=http://genderandsecurity.org|access-date=May 28, 2017}}

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• Center for the Study of the Humanities, Culture and Society{{cite web|title=Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/chcs|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy{{cite web|title=Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cwppp|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center for World Languages and Cultures{{cite web|title=Centers and Institutes – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/appling/centers|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Center on Media and Society{{cite web|title=The Center on Media and Society – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cms|access-date=May 28, 2017|archive-date=August 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809212324/https://www.umb.edu/cms|url-status=dead}}
• China Program Center{{cite web|title=China Program Center – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/centers/cpc|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management{{cite web|title=Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/cpm|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Entrepreneurship Center{{cite web|title=University of Massachusetts Boston – Entrepreneurship Center – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/entrepreneurship_center|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Gerontology Institute{{cite web|title=Gerontology Institute – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/gerontologyinstitute|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• GoKids Boston Youth Fitness and Training Center{{cite web|title=GoKids Boston – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/gokids|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626091827/http://www.umb.edu/gokids/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 26, 2007|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Institute for Learning and Teaching{{cite web|title=Institute for Learning and Teaching – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/ilt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127010429/http://www.umb.edu/ilt|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2011|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Institute for New England Native American Studies{{cite web|title=Institute for New England Native American Studies – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/inenas|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Labor Resource Center{{cite web|title=Labor Resource Center – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/lrc|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• New England Resource Center for Higher Education{{cite web|title=New England Resource Center for Higher Education – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.nerche.org|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute{{cite web|title=Osher Lifelong Learning Center – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/olli|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• Pension Action Center{{cite web|title=Pension Action Center – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/pensionaction|access-date=May 28, 2017}}
• The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center & Minority Business Center{{cite web|title=MSBDC Boston Regional Office & Minority Business Center|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.sbdc.umb.edu|access-date=May 28, 2017}}

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Intercollegiate athletics, intramurals, and recreation for the students, staff, and faculty are the primary programs of the UMass Boston Department of Athletics. The department offers 18 varsity sports and is a member of the NCAA's Division III. UMass Boston, known by their nickname: the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and New England Hockey Conference Ice Hockey. The Beacons have been named All-Americans 93 times in seven sports. The women's indoor and outdoor track & field teams have won four NCAA team championships and 38 NCAA individual championships.[http://www.beaconsathletics.com/ot/UMassBostonAthletics.html UMass Boston Athletics home page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104155334/http://www.beaconsathletics.com/ot/UMassBostonAthletics.html |date=2008-11-04 }} In the years 1999 through 2006 the National Consortium for Academics and Sports named the Department of Athletics at UMass Boston first in the country for community service.

UMass Boston's independent, student run and financed newspaper is The Mass Media. Other student publications include the yearbook,University of Massachusetts Boston: Yearbooks, 1969–2010 http://openarchives.umb.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15774coll8/id/343/rec/48 WatermarkThe Watermark, http://scholarworks.umb.edu/watermark/ arts and literary magazine, and The Beacon monthly humor magazine. UMass Boston also owns and operates WUMB-FM (91.9), a 24-hour, public, noncommercial radio station that broadcasts folk music programs and produces the award-winning public and cultural affairs program, Commonwealth Journal.{{cite web|title=WUMB – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/news_events_media/wumb|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213164415/https://www.umb.edu/news_events_media/wumb|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=WUMB Radio – A Brief History and Overview of WUMB|publisher=WUMB-FM|url=http://www.wumb.org/about/overview.php|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-date=February 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170228061733/http://www.wumb.org/about/overview.php|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Commonwealth Journal – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/commonwealthjournal/about|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-date=February 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213164235/https://www.umb.edu/commonwealthjournal/about|url-status=dead}}

National student societies or professional organizations with active local or student chapters at UMass Boston include Alpha Lambda Delta,{{cite web|title=Massachusetts Chapters — Alpha Lambda Delta|publisher=Alpha Lambda Delta|url=http://www.nationalald.org/massachusetts|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Alpha Lambda Delta – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/ald|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303043653/https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/ald|url-status=dead}} the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,{{cite web|title=Northeast Region|publisher=American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology|url=https://www.asbmb.org/education/chapters/northeast/|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Student Chapter – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/asbmb|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913231846/https://umb.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/asbmb|url-status=dead}} College Democrats of America,{{cite web|title=UMass Boston – College Democrats of Massachusetts|publisher=College Democrats of America|url=http://macollegedems.org/chapters/umass-boston/|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=May 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526224723/http://macollegedems.org/chapters/umass-boston/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=UMass Boston College Democrats – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/umbcd|access-date=March 2, 2017}} Delta Sigma Pi,{{cite web|title=ChapterFullDetails|publisher=Delta Sigma Pi|url=https://www.deltasigmapi.org/chapter-locator/chapterfulldetails?cid=429|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Xi Phi Chapter At The University of massachusetts- Boston – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://xiphi.weebly.com|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=December 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231100221/http://xiphi.weebly.com/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Delta Sigma Pi – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/xiphi|access-date=March 2, 2017}} Free the Children,{{cite web|title=FALL 2016 STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/life_on_campus/FALL_2016_club_list_for_handout.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116203210/https://www.umb.edu/editor_uploads/images/life_on_campus/FALL_2016_club_list_for_handout.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-16 |url-status=live|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Free The Children – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/freethechildren|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303043313/https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/freethechildren|url-status=dead}} the Golden Key International Honour Society,{{cite web|title=Chapter Details|publisher=Golden Key International Honour Society|url=https://www.goldenkey.org/members-chapters/chapter-details/?gkchapter={E74EE925-DCFA-DE11-BC84-0018FE280F2B}|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Home – Golden Key at University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://umb.goldenkey.org/|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=November 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128125813/https://umb.goldenkey.org/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Golden Key International Honor Society – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/goldenkeyinternationalhonorsociety|access-date=March 2, 2017}} the National Student Nurses' Association,{{cite web|title=State Association/School Chapter Links – NSNA|publisher=National Student Nurses' Association|url=http://www.nsna.org/state-associationschool-chapter-links.html#MA|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Student Nurses Association – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/studentnursesassociation|access-date=March 2, 2017}} Phi Delta Epsilon,{{cite web|title=PhiDE – Directory|publisher=Phi Delta Epsilon|url=http://www.phide.org/directory.cfm|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=August 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805131019/http://www.phide.org/directory.cfm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Phi Delta Epsilon Medical Fraternity – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/phideltaepsilonmedicalfraternityinterestgroup|access-date=March 2, 2017}} the Public Interest Research Group,{{cite web|title=UMass Boston MASSPIRG Students|publisher=Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group|url=http://masspirgstudents.org/umb|access-date=March 2, 2017}}{{cite web|title=MASSPIRG – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/masspirg|access-date=March 2, 2017}} the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science,{{cite web|title=Current Chapters SACNAS|publisher=Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science|url=http://sacnas.org/year-round-programs/chapters/current-chapters|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303043414/http://sacnas.org/year-round-programs/chapters/current-chapters|archive-date=March 3, 2017|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}{{cite web|title=Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science – Graduate Club|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/SACNASgrad|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913232238/https://umb.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/SACNASgrad|url-status=dead}} the Society of Physics Students,{{cite web|title=Society of Physics Students – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/societyofphysicsstudents|access-date=March 2, 2017}} and Young Americans for Liberty.{{cite web|title=Chapters – Young Americans for Liberty|publisher=Young Americans for Liberty|url=http://www.yaliberty.org/chapters|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=December 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206080242/https://yaliberty.org/chapters/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Young Americans for Liberty at UMASS Boston – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/yalatumb|access-date=March 2, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303042830/https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/yalatumb|url-status=dead}} The American Chemical Society had a student chapter at UMass Boston, but as of the Fall 2016 semester it is inactive.{{cite web|title=American Chemical Society Student Chapter – Home|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://umb.collegiatelink.net/organization/ACSChapter|access-date=March 7, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913231701/https://umb.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/ACSChapter|url-status=dead}}However, the American Chemical Society still certifies the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree at UMass Boston.{{cite web|title=Chemistry Department – Undergraduate Programs – Chemistry, BS (ACS-Certified) – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/chemistry/ug/chemistry_bs_acs_certified|access-date=March 7, 2017|archive-date=January 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117215546/https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/chemistry/ug/chemistry_bs_acs_certified|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=ACS – CPTASL|publisher=American Chemical Society|url=https://webapplications.acs.org/Applications/CPTASL/app_list_results.cfm?STATE_CODE=MA|access-date=March 7, 2017}}

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• Joseph Abboud, B.A. 1972, International Men's Fashion Designer.{{cite web|title=Why UMass Boston? – Alumni Achievements – Joseph Abboud – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/joseph_abboud|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427035348/http://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/joseph_abboud|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 27, 2012|access-date=March 17, 2017}}
• Amsale Aberra, B.A. 1981, Celebrity Wedding designer.{{cite web|title=Why UMass Boston? – Alumni Achievements – Amsale Aberra – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/amsale_aberra|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913182933/https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/amsale_aberra|url-status=dead}}
• Paul Anastas, one of the founders of green chemistry, now faculty at Yale
• Cory Atkins, (B.S. 1979), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1999–2019).{{cite web|title=Representative Cory Atkins|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/C_A1/Biography|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=142}}
• Panayiota Bertzikis, B.A. 2010, Humanitarian.
• Daniel E. Bosley, (M.S. 1996), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1987–2011).{{cite web|title=University of Massachusetts Boston Commencement 1996|page=14|url=http://www.lib.umb.edu/files/uploads/files/UMB_1996.pdf|access-date=2017-04-08|archive-date=2011-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105124936/http://www.lib.umb.edu/files/uploads/files/UMB_1996.pdf|url-status=dead}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=142}}
• Edward Scott Bozek (1950–2022), Olympic épée fencer
• William Bratton, B.A. 1975, Boston City Police Commissioner (1993–1994), New York City Police Commissioner (1994–1996; 2014–2016), Los Angeles Police Department Chief (2002–2009), Member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (2011–Present).{{cite web|title=Why UMass Boston? – Alumni Achievements – William J. Bratton – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/william_j._bratton|access-date=March 17, 2017|archive-date=September 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913184539/https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/william_j._bratton|url-status=dead}}
• Phillip Brutus, B.S. 1982, Member of the Florida House of Representatives (2001–2007).{{cite web|title=Florida House of Representatives – Phillip J. Brutus – 2016–2018 ( Speaker Corcoran )|publisher=Florida House of Representatives|url=http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4244|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• Christine Canavan, (B.S. Nursing (summa cum laude) 1988), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1993–2015).{{cite news|title=Q&A with 10th Plymouth state rep candidate Christine Canavan|work=WickedLocal.com|publisher=GateHouse Media|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1696237072/Q-A-with-10th-Plymouth-state-rep-candidate-Christine-Canavan|date=October 28, 2010|access-date=April 7, 2017|archive-date=September 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927130540/http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1696237072/Q-A-with-10th-Plymouth-state-rep-candidate-Christine-Canavan|url-status=dead}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=142}}
• Ken Casey, bassist for the punk rock group the Dropkick Murphys.
• Lenny Clarke, (did not finish), comedian/actor.{{cite web|title=Lenny Clarke Agent – Book Lenny Clarke for Private, Corporate, Special Events – Headline Entertainment|publisher=Headline Entertainment|url=http://www.headlineentertainment.us/celebrity-comedians/360-lenny-clarke.html|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• Tim Costello (1945–2009), labor and anti-globalization advocate and author.Greenhouse, Steve. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/us/26costello.html "Tim Costello, Trucker-Author Who Fought Globalization, Dies at 64"], The New York Times, December 26, 2009. Accessed December 28, 2009.
• Paul Donato, Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts (1980–1985), Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives (2001–Present), Second Assistant Majority Whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2009–Present).{{cite web|title=Representative Paul J. Donato|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/PJD1/Biography|access-date=April 8, 2017}}{{cite news|last=Iovino|first=Nicholas|title=Medford Rep. Paul Donato serves as assistant majority whip in House|work=WickedLocal.com|publisher=GateHouse Media|url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/x171164013/Medford-Rep-Paul-Donato-serves-as-assistant-majority-whip-in-House|date=March 21, 2013|access-date=April 8, 2017|archive-date=September 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926123858/http://www.wickedlocal.com/x171164013/Medford-Rep-Paul-Donato-serves-as-assistant-majority-whip-in-House|url-status=dead}}
• Paul M. English, B.A. 1987 and M.S. 1989 (both in Computer Science), co-founder and CTO of Kayak.com.{{cite web|title=Distinguished Alumni – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/graduate/distinguished_alumni|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408172025/https://www.umb.edu/academics/graduate/distinguished_alumni|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 8, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Paul M. English: Executive Profile & Biography – Bloomberg|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=750418&privcapId=261699140|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• Jennifer L. Flanagan, (B.S. Political Science, 1998), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2005–2009), Member of the Massachusetts Senate (2009–2017).{{cite web|title=Senator Jennifer L. Flanagan|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/JLF0/Biography|access-date=April 8, 2017}}
• Jovita Fontanez 1984, head of Boston Election Commission, member of Massachusetts Electoral College.Feldberg, p. 132
• Beth Harrington, filmmaker and musician
• Robert L. Hedlund, Member of the Massachusetts Senate (1991–1993; 1995–2016), Mayor of Weymouth, Massachusetts (2016–Present).{{cite web|title=Biography – Weymouth MA|publisher=Town of Weymouth, MA|url=http://www.weymouth.ma.us/mayor/pages/biography|access-date=March 17, 2017}}
• Patricia D. Jehlen, (M.A. History), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1991–2005), Member of the Massachusetts Senate (2005–Present).{{cite web|title=Senator Patricia D. Jehlen|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/PDJ0/Biography|access-date=April 8, 2017}}
• John F. Kelly, B.A. 1976, general in the United States Marine Corps, commander of U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) from 2012 to 2016. Former senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense, former commander of Multi-National Force-West, Iraq, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (January–July 2017), White House Chief of Staff (July 2017–January 2019).{{cite web | title=Secretary Johnson Swears in New Members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council | url=https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/06/02/secretary-johnson-swears-new-members-homeland-security-advisory-council | publisher=U.S. Department of Homeland Security | date=June 2, 2016}}
• Joseph P. Kennedy II, (B.A. 1976), current president of Citizens Energy Corporation and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–1999).{{cite web|title=KENNEDY, Joseph Patrick, II – Biography Information|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000110|access-date=March 17, 2017}}
• Dennis Lehane, (did not finish), author.{{cite book|last=Lehane|first=Dennis|author-link=Dennis Lehane|editor-last=Bark|editor-first=Sandra|title=Take This Advice: The Most Nakedly Honest Graduation Speeches Ever Given|publisher=Gallery Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-4169-1596-6|page=196|date=April 1, 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7OYYKACSiIC&q=%22Dennis+Lehane%22+%22University+of+Massachusetts+Boston%22&pg=PA196|quote=My buddy Chris Mullen–who applied to UMass with me and attended UMass with me and dropped out of UMass with me ...}}
• Ron Mariano, (M.Ed., 1972), Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2020–Present), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1991–Present), Majority Leader of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2011–2020).{{cite web|title=Representative Ronald Mariano|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/R_M1/Biography|access-date=April 8, 2017}}{{cite web|title=About Ron – Ron Mariano|url=http://www.ronmariano.com/about-ron|access-date=April 8, 2017}}
• Juana Matias, state representative{{Cite news |url=http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_31355431/lawrence-state-rep-juana-matias-enters-3rd-district |title=Lawrence state Rep. Juana Matias enters 3rd District race |last=Castillo |first=Amaris |date=October 5, 2017 |work=Lowell Sun |access-date=October 6, 2017}}
• Gina McCarthy, (B.A., 1976), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2013–2017), White House National Climate Advisor (2021–2022) {{cite web|title=Why UMass Boston? – Alumni Achievements – Gina McCarthy – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/gina_mccarthy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123201606/http://www.umb.edu/why_umass/gina_mccarthy|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2011|access-date=March 17, 2017}}
• Michael J. McGlynn, (B.A. Political Science/History, 1976). Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1977–1988), Mayor of Medford, Massachusetts (1988–2016).{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=142}}
• Thomas Menino, (B.A. Community Planning, 1988). Mayor of Boston (1993–2014), Boston City Council President (1993), Member of the Boston City Council (1984–1993).{{cite web|title=Why UMass Boston? – Mayor Thomas M. Menino – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/thomas_m._menino|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317234545/https://www.umb.edu/why_umass/thomas_m._menino|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 17, 2017|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Our Distinguished Alumni – University of Massachusetts Boston|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/academics/cpcs/about_the_college/our_distinguished_alumni|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318005322/https://www.umb.edu/academics/cpcs/about_the_college/our_distinguished_alumni|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 18, 2017|access-date=March 17, 2017}}
• Janet Mills B.A. 1970, Maine Attorney General (2009–2011; 2013–2019), 75th Governor of Maine (2019–).{{cite news|title=UMass Boston Alumna Elected as Maine's First Female Governor|work=UMass Boston News|url=https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_alumna_elected_as_maines_first_female_governor|date=November 7, 2018|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-date=November 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108065810/https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_alumna_elected_as_maines_first_female_governor|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Office of the Maine AG: Biography of Attorney General Janet T. Mills|publisher=State of Maine|url=http://www.maine.gov/ag/about/message.shtml|access-date=March 17, 2017}}Harrison, Judy, [http://bangordailynews.com/2009/01/06/news/janet-mills-takes-oath-as-mainersquos-first-female-ag/ "Janet Mills takes oath as Maine’s first female AG"], Bangor Daily News, January 06, 2009
• Michael J. Moran, (B.A. Economics, 1995), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2005–Present).{{cite web|title=Representative Michael J. Moran|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/MJM1/Biography|access-date=April 8, 2017}}{{cite web|title=University of Massachusetts Boston Commencement 1995|page=18|url=http://www.lib.umb.edu/files/uploads/files/UMB_1995.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105125536/http://www.lib.umb.edu/files/uploads/files/UMB_1995.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-01-05}}
• Eileen Myles, B.A. Author.{{cite web|title=Eileen Myles|url=http://eileenmyles.com/bio2.php|access-date=April 7, 2017|archive-date=January 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126141437/http://www.eileenmyles.com/bio2.php|url-status=dead}}
• Kelly Overton, Activist.
• Stanzi Potenza, actor, comedian, and TikTok personality
• Joe Rogan, (did not finish), comedian, actor, "NewsRadio" and "Fear Factor".{{cite magazine|last=Hedegaard|first=Erik|title=How Joe Rogan Went From UFC Announcer to 21st-Century Timothy Leary|magazine=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/how-joe-rogan-went-from-ufc-announcer-to-21st-century-timothy-leary-20151022|date=October 22, 2015|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• Jeffrey Sánchez, (B.A. Legal Education), Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (2003–2019).{{cite web|title=Representative Jeffrey Sánchez|publisher=Massachusetts General Court|url=https://malegislature.gov/Legislators/Profile/J_S1/Biography|access-date=April 9, 2017}}
• Debra Saunders, B.A. 1982, conservative columnist, White House Correspondent of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.{{cite web|title=About Debra J. Saunders – Creators Syndicate|publisher=Creators Syndicate|url=https://www.creators.com/author/debra-j-saunders|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• Biz Stone, (did not finish) Co-founder of Twitter.{{cite news| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/twitters-biz-stone-uc-berkeley-haas_n_946391.html | work=The Huffington Post | title=Twitter's Biz Stone To Be Executive Fellow At UC Berkeley's Haas School | date=September 21, 2011}}
• Steve Sweeney, B.A. 1974, Comedian.{{cite web|title=Steve Sweeney — Community Auditions|publisher=Community Auditions|url=http://www.communityauditions.com/steve-sweeney/|access-date=April 7, 2017|archive-date=January 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108080145/http://www.communityauditions.com/steve-sweeney|url-status=dead}}
• John M. Tobin, Jr., (B.A. Political Science), Member of the Boston City Council (2002–2010).
• Harry Trask, B.A. 1969, (1928–2002) 1957 Pulitzer Prize in Photography (for a photograph of the SS Andrea Doria sinking).[https://newspaperarchive.com/mass-media/1969-06-12/ "How Do You Start a Tradition?"], Mass Media, UMASS/Boston, June 12, 1969
• Robert Travaglini, B.S. 1974. President of the Massachusetts Senate (2003–2007), Member of the Massachusetts Senate (1992–2007), Member of the Boston City Council (1984–1992).{{cite web|title=Robert E. Travaglini – UMass Boston Athletics|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=http://www.beaconsathletics.com/special_projects/distinguished_alumnus/travaglini_robert|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905200937/http://beaconsathletics.com/special_projects/distinguished_alumnus/travaglini_robert|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 5, 2015|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{sfn|Feldberg|2015|p=142}}
• Samuel Urkato, Minister of Science and Higher Education, Ethiopia.{{cite web|title=H.E. Dr Samuel Urkato|url=http://aogeac.com/cth_speaker/h-e-dr-samuel-urkato/|access-date=8 December 2020|website=Aogeac.com|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116204415/http://aogeac.com/cth_speaker/h-e-dr-samuel-urkato/|url-status=dead}}
• Bill Walczak, B.A. 1978. former CEO Codman Square Health Center and candidate for Mayor of Boston.{{cite web|title=Why UMass Boston?|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|url=https://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/from_park_square_to_columbia_point|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408171904/https://www.umb.edu/Why_UMass/from_park_square_to_columbia_point|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 8, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2017}}{{cite news|last=Irons|first=Meghan E.|title=Bill Walczak is no stranger to challenges|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/09/08/bill-walczak-creates-path-big-ideas-bold-moves/2QbOGbJ3P0rLLnYWFPe39I/story.html|date=September 9, 2013|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• John Warner, B.S. 1984, one of the founding fathers of Green Chemistry; founded first PhD program in Green Chemistry.{{cite web|title=About – John Warner|url=http://johnwarner.org/about/|access-date=March 17, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Biographies – Exploring Opportunities in Green Chemistry and Engineering Education – NCBI Bookshelf|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9647/|access-date=April 7, 2017}}
• Georgette Watson, B.A., anti-drug activist{{Cite news|last=Nuss|first=Jeannie|date=September 7, 2008|title=Georgette Watson, 64; activist helped clean up Boston's streets|work=The Boston Globe|issn=0743-1791|page=25|id={{ProQuest|405137659}}}}
• Jane Welzel, (1955–2014), pioneering long-distance runner
• Dana White, (did not finish), current president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).{{cite news|last=Wagenheim|first=Jeff|title=Better duck: Dana White is coming home|work=ESPN|url=http://www.espn.com/boston/news/story?id=4766500|date=December 23, 2009|access-date=April 7, 2017}}

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• {{cite web|title=Campus Master Plan for University of Massachusetts Boston|year=2009|website=Internet Archive|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|url=https://archive.org/details/umass-boston-master-plan-dec-2009|ref={{sfnRef|Commonwealth of Massachusetts|2009}}|access-date=August 15, 2023}}

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